That are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up, and heres a chromatic scale, and thats all we have each of those pitches or pitch classes from c to c is reproduced in every
It has a plot, and it has an ending. [spirited violin plays] melody, i define it as a group of notes that are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up, and heres a chromatic sc
Was provided by the Annenberg Cpb project. Silent night, holy night, all is calm, male narrator melody is one of the essential elements of music. Changes in pitch one after another create rising and falling contours which taken together impart meaning. [jazzy saxophone plays] melody is the story youre telling, and for that reason, to me, melody is in some ways the most important element of music. Its like a story because it has a beginning, it has a plot, and it has an ending. [spirited violin plays] melody, i define it as a group of notes that are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as w
[spirited violin plays] melody, i define it as a group of notes that are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up and heres a chromatic scale and thats all we have each of those
That are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy pipe plays] man pitch is the highness or lowness of the sound. Its a matter of how many vibrations per second form the fundamental frequency of the sound. For the musician, of course, the pitch at least in the western vocabulary, are the 12 pitches of the octave divided up, and heres a chromatic scale, and thats all we have each of those pitches or pitch classes from c to c is reproduced in every