This is a WIP page! Notes of stuff taught or I thought were being taught: *Art is the dominance of a technique *Practice generates progress, in contrast to assisting classes *Theory makes chairs work better *There's three clefs: The higher pitched treble clef, has two dots in the G note next the central C, the middle-pitched tenor clef, that has two dots between the central C, and the low pitched clef, the bass clef, that has two dots surrounding the F before the central C *In a score, everything above the central C is higher pitched *A score is composed of the: Clef, key signature, meter, and pentagram *Sound origins from a vibration The first quality of all sound: 1* Duration *Rhythm *Of the word (Free) *Of the dance (Regular) *Tempo *Metro 2* Altitude *Melody *Monody *Harmony *Polifony *Imitative (Echo) *Free (There may be consonance) *Heterophony (Variations of one melody with the same rhythm) *Accompanied melodies (A single melody accomanied with pillars or hanging harmonies) 3* Intensity 4* Texture *The moment of playing a note and it reaching its loudness peak is called Attack, the decay is called Sonorous Asymptote; the bigger the piano, the longer the asymptote *Elements of music depends of expressivity needs *We could spend all life inventing rhythms Figures: 1 = whole note 2 = half note 4 = quarter note 8 = quaver note . = dot of a dotted note dotted note last half more of it's note value (150% total) *Whole notes aren't slow or fast, so depend of the tempo 2/4 = quantity/figure (numerator/denominator) *Meter says how much pulses there are per measure Simple meter 2/4 4 4 | 88 4 Composed meter 3/8 4. 4. | 888 888 *Composed meters have a numerator that is divisible by 3 *Dominant is a tension axis *The rootnote is a resting point *3/4 with 6/8 are an hemiola *Harmonic series are divided in partials, two examples per row 1:1 Do 1:1 G = 100 Hz 1:2 Do 1:2 G = 200 Hz (Octave) 1:3 So 1:3 D = 300 Hz (Perfect fifth) 1:4 Do 1:4 G = 400 Hz (Perfect fourth) *Accurate frequencies: *A=440Hz *G=391.22Hz 1:5 Mi 1:5 B = 500 Hz (Major third) 1:6 So 1:6 D = 600 Hz (Minor third) 1:7 Re 1:7 F = 700 Hz 1:8 Do 1:8 G = 800 Hz *A determined sound is produced by a set of harmonical frequencies *The resultant waves are produced by the add and substract of harmonics *It matters the highness of the pitch in an hymn, with the finality of being sung popularly [... Lots of classes inbetween I may expand upon other time, I have an exam in some more hours and should focus on what will be on it] Gregorian singing has three types *By notes sung per silabe *Silabic (With a note per silabe) *Neuma (Or decorated) (With two or three notes per silabe) *Melismatic (Flowery) (Very ornate, with more than three notes per silabe) *By type of text *Biblical (It appears in the bible) *Non-biblic (It doesn't appear in the bible) *By way of interpreting it *Direct style (Only a chorus, or solist) *Anti-fonal (Alternation of two choruses) *Responsorial (Alternation of a solist and a chorus) About the first recorded use of musical notation Canonical hours or divine service/duty are the next ones: *Maitins (Before sunrise) *Lauds (Sunrise) *Prime (First hour after sunrise, after 6AM) *Terce (Third hour after sunrise, after 9AM) *Sext (Mid-day) *Nones (After 3PM) *Vespers (After sunset, habitually after 6PM) *Compline (Before night rest, at 9PM) A bunch of prayers made usually when it isn't a Mass Proper festivity or time, is called Ordinary; traditionally they are the next five parts sung by a chorus: *Kyrie eleison (Father have mercy) *Gloria (Glory to god in the heaven) *Credo (I believe in only one god) *Sactus (Holy, holy, holy is the father) *Agnus Dei (Sheep of god) Mass Propers are in this order *Introit *Collect *Epistle *Gradual *Alleluia or Tract, depending of liturgic time *Sequence *Gospel *Offertory *Secret *Communion *Postcommunion *In Lent and Advent, alleluia isn't sung, by it being a joyful singing *Gregorian singing began monodic, and for singing texts, music depended on word, until baroque era *Measures are a way of regularly measuring accents *Greek modes are 8 different ways to express different emotions *The leading-tone is always the last sharp note* (This one doesn't make sense to me yet, but is what I wrote, I may have written it wrong *Second to last flat shows the order of the tonality* (Note to self: Check the wording of this one) *Melodies have tension axes, resting axes, mediums, ambits* *Recurring motivs are what most gives expressivity to the melody* *Imitative polifony may be the origin of canons and fugues* *The technique to do harmony is counter-point* (Is this right? *Dinamycs are the change of volume, in old times it was used to enfatice text; text ruled over* *Pure music (instrumental) are sonatas and tocatas, sonatas are when the interpreter directly plays the instruments, and tocatas when the interpreter plays instruments through a mechanism* (Note to self: Look for another sources too) *Sonata Piano-forte what the first one; in 1580, where there was soft and loud piano playing* (Isn't this a contradiction of the very previous statement?) *Exposition of a piece shows conflicts of voices *Development shows the conversation; it could grow larger, like the dialectic way of thinking Intervals: 0 = Unison 1/2 = Minor 2 1 = Major 2 1 1/2 = Minor 3 2 = Major 3 2 1/2 = Perfect 4 3 = Augmented 4 / Diminished 5 / Tritone 3 1/2 = Perfect 5 4 = Minor 6 4 1/2 = Major 6 5 = Minor 7 5 1/2 = Major 7 6 = Octave