Melody in music. Rhythm. Modes. Harmony. Chords, what do they mean?

1. Melody:

usually refers to an organized, rhythmic sequence of several musical tones formed through artistic conception.

2. Rhythm:

The combination of an unorganized stream of beats into different patterns, the integration of different parts of varying lengths that are often repeated, the length and strength of scales, notes, or syllables in the progression of a musical melody.

3. Modulation:

To a tone as the core, in accordance with certain intervals of the relationship between different pitches organized together in a number of musical notes, constituting an organism is called modulation.

4. Harmony:

Two or more different tones according to a certain law at the same time sound and constitute the sound combination.

5. Chord:

It is a concept in music theory that refers to a group of sounds in a certain intervallic relationship. A chord is a combination of three or more tones that are combined vertically according to a superposition of thirds or non-thirds.

Expanded Information

Constituting a melody consists of two elements, the melodic line (or pitch line) and the rhythm. In a continuous melodic progression, various straight or curved progressions are formed due to the direction of pitch, and these progressions resemble the stretching or undulation of lines in a picture, so they are called melodic lines.

Tuning is a form of musical organization created by human beings in long-term musical practice. When the concept of modulation is elaborated, the center note of the modulation, the dominant, is often taken as the starting point and the end point, and the other tones are arranged in the form of a scale according to the order of their pitches, which is called the modal scale.

In tonal music, harmony has both a functional and a colorful meaning. The function of harmony refers to the stabilizing or destabilizing effect of each chord within the tonality, their movement and tendency characteristics, and the logical connection between them.

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