Music and its basic aspects


Basic Introduction to Music
Music is an art form with sound as a medium, a general melody of sounds or expression of emotions through harmonic features.  Music is an important part of our life. Music acts as a medium of entertainment and refreshment. It is also dealt scientifically because it consists of sounds which is a form of energy.


Aspects of Music
There are five basic aspects of music.
1.    Rhythm: Rhythm generally means placements of sounds in time. It is related to timing of musical sounds.
2.    Melody: Melody is a sequence of single notes which is musically satisfying. It is the combination of pitch and rhythm. In other words, it is a tune.
3.    Harmony: Harmony means simultaneously occurring frequencies, pitches and chords. If multiple chords played at the same time then that is also considered to be harmony. Generally, talking about harmony is talking about chords. It acts as a support for melody.
4.    Dynamics: Dynamics includes volume of a sound or a note. It is variation in loudness.
5.    Timbres: The character or quality of a musical sound i.e. tonal quality. Sa (C) note played in guitar has a different sound as in harmonium which means different musical instruments have different timbres.

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