We can conceive of musical texture as the density or thickness of a musical piece, showing the range between the lowest and highest pitches. Musical texture is the layering of a musical piece it can have one layer or multiple layers, which will build the texture and quality of a song. Harmony plays a role in the music’s feel, often displaying the song’s emotion, either the composer’s feelings or those the composer wants the listener to feel. Harmonies do not draw your attention away from the melody they merely build a texture behind it, adding substance to the piece of music.Ĭords often build up harmonies, and chords are multiple pitches played at once. HarmonyĪ harmony is supporting pitches that accompany a melody. The melody is the frame of a song built by a series of individual notes/pitches strung together, forming the most prominent layer in a piece of music by being louder, more dynamic, and having a higher pitch than the harmony. MelodyĪ melody is the fundamental element of music. We refer to beat as tempo, pulse, and meter.Ī beat happens when you have the main beat and an opposing beat with a different sound, which you perform using high and low drum beats or long and short beats. Rhythm builds on the beat, and both are always related to each other ( source).Īs an interesting side note, in Greek, rhythmos means “to flow.” BeatĪ beat is the unit of time we use in a piece of music, and it is the steady and regular pulse we hear in music. Rhythm does not have to be regular and evenly spaced as with a beat, so we understand rhythm as the movement of music through time. Each measure satisfies the staff’s specific time signature, and we know this time signature as the beat.
We can discern the pitch based on where the note is on the staff, and we know what rhythm to play by what type of note it is in the measure.Ī measure is the section of music that comes between two bar lines. We can roughly divide music into layers based on elements that build upon each other to form a rich or sparse texture, so let’s have a look at these elements, starting with rhythm and pitch. Before discussing the difference between homophony and polyphony, let’s review the concepts of harmony, melody, rhythm, pitch, and beat to help us better understand the layers that form musical texture.
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