Creative Final Assignment prep & Group creative overdub assignment (205 / 208) by Herman

Articulations by nolene liew(group members: Norine, siew hoong, ming lun, kylie, nolene)

2015-08-23 10:02:36 UTC

In music,articulation refers to the musical performance technique that affects the transition or continuity on a single note, or between multiple notes or sounds. There are many types of articulation, each with a different effect on how the note is played. In music notation articulation marks include the slur, phrase mark, staccato, staccatissimo, accent, sforzando, rinforzando, and legato. A different symbol, placed above or below the note (depending on its position on the staff), represents each articulation.

Tenuto	Hold the note in question its full length (or longer, with slight rubato), or play the note slightly louder.
Marcato	Indicates a short note, long chord, or medium passage to be played louder or more forcefully than surrounding music.
Staccato	Signifies a note of shortened duration
Legato	Indicates musical notes are to be played or sung smoothly and connected.
Accents	1. a stress or special emphasis on a beat to mark its position in the bar. 2. a mark in the written music indicating an accent of which there are five basic types: § staccato accents, § staccatissimo accents, § normal accents, § strong accents, § legato accents

Mr Herman

nhhsmusic — 2015-08-23 11:08:43 UTC

Group Assignment for next lesson

Create a creative overdub with the given video clip. Do a video recording of your group performance and post it here or send through the group Whatsapp.

•Use any music instruments or any other objects (Keys, packet of beans... etc)
Download the video here...

Musical forms

2015-08-23 12:55:25 UTC

Musical forms refer to the overall structure or plan of a piece of music and describes the overall layout of a composition by dividing it into distinct sections. This shows the “overall composition” of the song. It usually lets the listener wants to listen to the piece over and over again as it is contrasting, thus, it does not gets boring. There are many different forms. Some examples would be strophic form(AAA…), ternary form(ABA/AABA) and binary form(AB…,ABAB…). The strophic form had a unrelieved repetition of the first verse. The ternary form usually has 3 parts. It is often seen in the 18^th century operatic aria. The first part, A and the second part, B have very obvious difference. Its style and texture contrast greatly. The music then repeats the first part again but in a different way, usually an octave higher or lower, or with a different key. The binary form has 2 sections. It is often used in the 18^th century western dances. The two parts is in different keys but with the same rhythm, duration and tone. Thus, it allows the dance to be “never ending”

BY: Ng Siew Hoong 205 (Group members-Nolene, Norine, MingLun, Kylie)

Note duration

2015-08-23 14:36:57 UTC

Norine Liew (group members: Nolene, Siew Hoong, Ming Lun, Kylie, Norine)

The length of time that a note is played is called its note duration, which is determined by the type of note.

The whole note has the longest note duration in modern music.

The half note has half the duration of a whole note.

Two half notes occupy the same amount of time as one whole note.

The quarter note is a fourth (or a quarter) of a whole note.

Four quarter notes occupy the same amount of time as one whole note. Two quarter notes equal the duration of a half note.

Notes smaller in duration than a quarter note have flags. Each flag halves the value of a note.

An eighth note has one flag.

Therefore, two eighth notes occupy the same amount of time as one quarter note.

A sixteenth note has two flags, halving the value again.

Two sixteenth notes equal the duration of an eighth note.

Four sixteenth notes occupy the same amount of time as one quarter note.

Although it is possible to have notes with three or more flags, they are seldomly used.

Dynamics 205 grp(ming lun)

2015-09-17 06:37:39 UTC

Dynamic refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a givenbpiece, either stylistic.

Its also implied to be written or printed musical notation used to indicate dynamic.

Symbol include:

p or piano, meaning soft

f for forte, meaning loud

Mp for mezzo piano, meaning moderately softly

Pp for fortissimo and meaning very loud.

AAA song form

2015-09-21 14:02:32 UTC

AAA Song Form is a type of Sectional Music, whereby each musical theme is defined as a musical section and assigned a letter of the alphabet. Where sections are identical or very close, musically, they are assigned the same letter as that of other identical sections of the song. Where a section is not identical, a new letter would be assigned to represent that type of musical section.

AAA Song Form is divided into sections of song called verses. Each verse of a song is musically the same and in this AAA song form, with each repetition being labeled with the letter "A". Simplicity of structure makes this song form rather easy to remember. There are no other song sections to complicate the picture.

by sun ruiheng (33)

Pitch

2015-09-21 14:14:52 UTC

It is the quality that allows us to classify a sound as relatively high or low. Pitch is determined by the frequency of sound wave vibrations. A definite pitch is a musical sound that has a steady and measurable frequency and can be assigned a hertz number. The sound waves of definite pitches move in a repetitive and evenly-paced pattern with a constant distance between the peaks and valleys of each wave.

Hertz numbers are useful because they provide the basis for a universal tuning system. Using hertz numbers as a measurement, a note on a piano in China and a note on a piano in Chicago can both be tuned to precisely the same frequency.

Done by: Clara Ng(15)