KlangfarbenmelodieLe terme Klangfarbenmelodie signifie littéralement « mélodie de timbre » en allemand. Cette technique musicale consiste à confier aux différents instruments des interventions très concises dans un kaléidoscope de timbres différents. Les instruments de l'orchestre n'ont pas de rôle mélodique à proprement parler, mais chacun contribue à l'élaboration d'une mélodie globale et générale. Les compositeurs comme Anton Webern (Cinq pièces pour orchestre op.
Jam bandLes jam bands sont des groupes, dont les albums live et concerts s'associent uniquement aux fans, ayant émergé dans les années 1960 avec The Grateful Dead, et continué avec The Allman Brothers Band. La performance de ces groupes se concentre principalement sur de longues séances d'improvisation musicale () qui peuvent parfois croiser la limite des genres musicaux. Les Grateful Dead continuent de se populariser pendant la seconde moitié des années 1980.
Dyad (music)In music, a dyad (less commonly, diad) is a set of two notes or pitches that, in particular contexts, may imply a chord. Dyads can be classified by the interval between the notes. For example, the interval between C and E is a major third, which can imply a C major chord, made up of the notes C, E and G. When the pitches of a dyad occur in succession, they form a melodic interval. When they occur simultaneously, they form a harmonic interval. The harmonic series is built over a fundamental pitch, and the rest of the partials in the series are called overtones.
Strophic formStrophic form – also called verse-repeating form, chorus form, AAA song form, or one-part song form – is a song structure in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music. Contrasting song forms include through-composed, with new music written for every stanza, and ternary form, with a contrasting central section. The term is derived from the Greek word στροφή, strophē, meaning "turn". It is the simplest and most durable of musical forms, extending a piece of music by repetition of a single formal section.
Music appreciationMusic appreciation is a division of musicology that is designed to teach students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes involved in music composition. The concept of music appreciation is often taught as a subset of music theory in higher education and focuses predominantly on Western art music, commonly called "Classical music". This study of music is classified in a number of ways, including (but not limited to) examining music literacy and core musical elements such as pitch, duration, structure, texture and expressive techniques.
Musical techniqueMusical technique is the ability of instrumental and vocal musicians to exert optimal control of their instruments or vocal cords in order to produce the precise musical effects they desire. Improving one's technique generally entails practicing exercises that improve one's muscular sensitivity and agility. Technique is independent of musicality. Compositional technique is the ability and knowledge composers use to create music, and may be distinguished from instrumental or performance technique, which in classical music is used to realize compositions, but may also be used in musical improvisation.
Cultural universalA cultural universal (also called an anthropological universal or human universal) is an element, pattern, trait, or institution that is common to all known human cultures worldwide. Taken together, the whole body of cultural universals is known as the human condition. Evolutionary psychologists hold that behaviors or traits that occur universally in all cultures are good candidates for evolutionary adaptations.
Épitaphe de Seikilosthumb|Stèle portant l’inscription de Seikilos, vers la fin du 1er siècle après-Jésus-Christ, Nationalmuseet, Copenhague thumb|300px|La mélodie chantée avec la prononciation du grec koinè (la langue commune). L’épitaphe de Seikilos ou chanson de Tralles est un fragment d'inscription lapidaire grecque, partiellement accompagné d'une notation musicale, gravée sur une colonne de marbre placée sur la tombe qu'a fait ériger un certain Seikilos pour son épouse ou son père, près de Tralles, en Asie Mineure.
Music historyMusic history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view. In theory, "music history" could refer to the study of the history of any type or genre of music (e.g., the history of Indian music or the history of rock). In practice, these research topics are often categorized as part of ethnomusicology or cultural studies, whether or not they are ethnographically based.
HexachordIn music, a hexachord (also hexachordon) is a six-note series, as exhibited in a scale (hexatonic or hexad) or tone row. The term was adopted in this sense during the Middle Ages and adapted in the 20th century in Milton Babbitt's serial theory. The word is taken from the ἑξάχορδος, compounded from ἕξ (hex, six) and χορδή (chordē, string [of the lyre], whence "note"), and was also the term used in music theory up to the 18th century for the interval of a sixth ("hexachord major" being the major sixth and "hexachord minor" the minor sixth).
