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Lesson 6
Lesson Objectives:
1. Harmonic Content-
or the intensity and
Used to define the color quality of the
or sound quality of a harmonics within the
tone. tone
The quality of sound 2. Attack and decay
that makes it distinct which describes the
from other sounds way the sound is
produced and
naturally recedes
3. Vibrato- Natural and
controlled pulsation of
a tone
6. Texture
Refers to the interaction THIN TEXTURE-
of melodies and being music with few
harmonies within a differing musical parts
song. THICK TEXTURE –
This parts can be being music with many
instruments, singers or a differing parts
combination of both
Number of tones
expected to be
apprehended
simultaneously.
Three Specific Textures
Phony- a suffix which Examples:
means sound Gregorian Chant-
1. Monophony Medieval Monophony
Thinnest of the three Beginning of
textures, so it is easy to Beethhoven’s Fifth
remember Symphony
sounding of single
melodic line without an
accompaniment ( no
background singers or
instruments)
2. POLYPHONY 3. HOMOPHONY
Homo means the same