Portal:Music
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Music is a self-expressed art form that organizes sound and silence through rhythm, tempo, pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, texture, dynamics, and other acoustic or electronic means, including instruments, synthesis, sampling, and environmental sound.
Whether a work is recognized as music often depends on cultural context and the shared understanding of performers and listeners. Music may be created individually or collectively through ensembles, orchestras, groups, and other forms of participation.
While atonal music exists, many musical traditions are characterized by melody and harmony. Rhythm encompasses tempo, meter, and articulation, while dynamics describe variations in loudness. Timbre and texture refer to the distinctive qualities and combinations of sounds, sometimes described as the "color" of music.
Music and aural theory
Music is organized sound, combining pitch, rhythm, timbre, dynamics, texture, and form. These elements provide us a common vocabulary for describing how music is structured and experienced. Fundamentals of Music serves as a foundation for later study in theory, performance, composition, and musicology, introducing the basic concepts used to analyze and discuss music regardless of genre or cultural origin.
- Introduction to music (To be absorbed into Fundamentals of music)
Western music theory
The goal of this section is to equip the student with the tools and skills necessary to compose, arrange and analyze music. Upon studies of these resources, students will possess the skills and knowledge of western theory, creative writing, arranging, as well as having a portfolio of original works.
Non-western music theory
Aural theory and ear training
Genres
Composition
Performance
Musicology
General Musicology
Historical Musicology
Western Music History
- Brief History of Western Music
- Music of the Medieval Era
- Music of the Renaissance
- Music of the Baroque Era
- Music of the Classical Era
- Music of the Romantic Era
- Music of the 20th Century
Nonwestern Music History
- Gamelan music history
- Carnatic music history
- Andalusi classical music history
- Persian classical music history
- Arabic classical music history
- Ottoman classical music history
- Hindustani classical music
Ethnomusicology
Music instruments
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Music resources
Hands on
Textbooks
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Open-Source software
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External links |
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A scale is a predetermined series of tones that define a musical context. A scale is defined as being major or minor according to whether the scale contains a major or a minor third, respectively. (If it contains both, as in the octatonic scale, it is considered to be neither major nor minor.) This holds true even if the scale in question is not "the" major or minor scale per se.
The most important kind of scale we are concerned with is the diatonic scale; that is, any scale containing the interval sequence W-W-H-W-W-W-H (where "W" represents a whole step and "H" is a half step). Note that any other cyclic permutation of this interval sequence is also considered a manifestation of the diatonic scale! What follows is a discussion of the different scales -- that is, of the various permutations of this interval sequence -- with some supplementary remarks on usage. (more...)
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