Muzički oblici i simboli

Musical Forms and Symbols

• Composers use symbols to make musical pieces easier to read and follow.
• A repeat sign is a double bar line with two dots, indicating a repeat of the section where the sign is located.
• "Fine" is an Italian word meaning "end" (of a section).
• "DS" or "Dal Segno" means to go back to a previously marked place in the music (the "segno" or DS).

Musical Contrasts

• Contrast is created by using musical phrases or lines with dissimilar melodies.
• Phrases 7 and 8 of "London Bridge Is Falling Down" have a different melody than the rest of the song, creating a contrast.
• The melody curve of a phrase can also contrast with others, like a downward curve in a song that mostly has upward curves.

Techniques in Creating Musical Form

• Repetition: Musical lines with the same melody and phrase are used. A great example is "london Bridge".
• Musical lines can be arranged in many ways to create a musical form.

Melodic Lines vs. Musical Lines

• A melodic line is the arrangement of notes, which can move up or down by steps or leaps.
• A musical line consists of phrases and notes written in a musical staff, with a composition of notes and phrases going together.
• The Cebuano folk song "Si Pilemon" has four musical lines.

What is a Melodic Line?

• A melodic line resembles a string of notes arranged in order to create a musical idea.

What is a melodic shape?

• A melodic shape or contour is the way the notes move up or down. Notes can move up, down, or in a series of leaps.

Sol-fa Syllables

• The sol-fa syllables are used to indicate pitches in a musical piece or song (e.g., do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do).
• Lower and higher variations of the syllables are also designated as do.

What is a Musical Pitch?

• Musical pitch refers to the highness or lowness of a musical tone.
• Highs and lows of sounds in music are shown using musical notation and organization (staff).

High and Low Pitch Sounds

• Pitch refers to the perceived highness or lowness of a sound.
• Deep, heavy, hollow sounds are low pitches.
• Thin, shrill, and sharp sounds are high pitches.

Staff, Clef, and Note Heads

• A staff is a set of five lines and four spaces where notes are written.
• The clef sign determines which lines and spaces represent specific pitches.
• Note heads indicate pitch on the lines or spaces.

Istražite različite muzičke oblike i simboliku koja olakšava čitanje muzičkih dela. U ovom kvizu saznajte o kontrastima, ponavljanju i melodičnim linijama. Pripremite se za testiranje svog znanja o muzičkim terminima i konceptima.