How music works?- Sunil Shrestha

How music works?

After my last blog on how music notes are constructed  we may be subsequently regarding how music works. Music has different fundamentals. These are pitch, beat(pulse), rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, allocation of voices, forms. These are the basic elements included in how music works but are not limited to this.

Pitch in music is a position of a single sound in the complete range of sound. Sounds are higher or lower in pitch according to the frequency of vibration of the sound waves producing them. A high frequency (e.g., 880 hertz[cycles per second]) is perceived as a high pitch; a low frequency (e.g., 55 Hz) as a low pitch.

Middle C (261.626 Hz) 

Beat A musical beat is an individual stroke of measured time, the steady pulse of a songs. beats are rhythmically organised by the time signature, and given speed by the tempo. Whereas off beat is off tempo.

RHYTHM, in music, the placement of sounds in time. In its most general sense rhythm (Greek rhythmos, derived from rhein, “to flow”) is an ordered alternation of contrasting elements. The notion of rhythm also occurs in other arts (e.g., poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture) as well as in nature (e.g.,biological rhythms.)

MELODY Melody is the main tune of a song; the outcome of a series of notes. Melody is regarded as “horizontal” because its notes are read from left-to-right; while harmony is “vertical” because the notes are played simultaneously, and therefore must be written vertically in notation.

Harmony Harmony is produced when two complementary notes sound simultaneously. Harmony is found in chords, or can be played along a main melody.Harmony is described as being “vertical,” since harmony is only achieved when notes  are played at the same time. Melody, on the other hand, is “horizontal,” since its notes are played in succession and read horizontally (for the most part) from left-to-right.

Harmony maintained

Texture musical texture is the overall sound of a piece of music commonly described according to the number of and relationship between parts or lines of music: monophony, heterophony, polyphony, homophony, or monody. The perceived texture of a piece may also be affected by the timbre of the instruments, the number of instruments used, and the distance between each musical line, among other things.