Music: The Spice of Life

Brad Bailey

 Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,

Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of passion and the plague. -John Armstrong 1744

Music
an art of sound in

time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and timbre or color.

Rhythm
the pattern of regular or

irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats. a particular form of this: duple rhythm
Such as 6/8 and 4/4;

triple rhythm
Such as 9/8 and 3/4

Melody
the succession of

single tones in musical compositions, as distinguished from harmony and rhythm.

Harmony
the simultaneous

combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear; chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm

Timbre
the characteristic

quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color Soprano Alto Tenor Bass

Structure
Chordal Structures are the build of Music Triads, Seventh and Ninth Cords Either Minor or Major Diminished or Augmented
Music is full of many different Forms Sonata form, Binary Form, Tertiary Form

Basic Instrument Groups

Brass
Any instrument made of brass
Trumpet, Tuba, Euphonium, Trombone, French Horn

Woodwinds
Any instrument that uses a wooden reed with one exception the flute
Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Oboe

Strings
Any instrument that uses a string to perform music
Guitar, Violin, Upright Bass, Cello

Percussion
Any instrument at can be struck to keep beat or rhythm
Drum; Snare, and Bass, Timpani, Cow Bell, Piano, Xylophone, Marimba, Bells, Triangle

What is Music used for?

For Many Music is daily To Relax To Exercise To do chores To sell thing through commercials, TV and Radio Its Used as Therapy
Through Mental Psychiatry For Healing after surgery and other medical procedures

What is Music used for?

Learning Chopin promoted self-discipline
Violin lessons became a time of acceptance Voice training helps lesson depression

Trumpet playing offers finger exercise

Drums are an outlet for aggression

What is Music used for?

An old Chinese proverb says: ,Music comes from the heart of the human being. When emotions are born, they are expressed by sounds and when sounds are born they give birth to music.

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