What art is music?

Music is an art that reflects the feelings of human real life.

Music can be divided into vocal music and instrumental music, and can also be roughly divided into classical music, folk music, original ecological music, modern music (including pop music) and so on. In terms of artistic types, music is abstract, and music can be divided into eastern music and western music in historical development.

In the East, China's ancient theory, headed by China Hanle, is based on the five tones of industry, commerce, communication, righteousness and Yu, while in the West, it is dominated by seven tones. Music is pleasing to the eye and brings us auditory enjoyment. Music can improve people's aesthetic ability, purify people's hearts and establish lofty ideals. We express our emotions through music and let many of our emotions be released.

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The basic elements of music:

1. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally and methodically according to a certain rhythm, forming a tune. Tune is the most important means of expression of music, and it is the essence and decisive factor of music. The direction of melody is endless, and there are three basic directions: "horizontal", "upper" and "lower".

The direction of the same sound is called horizontal; Accent upward from bass to treble; Drop from high notes to low notes. The common progressive ways of melody are homophonic repetition, progressive and jumping. According to the adjacent notes of the scale, it is called progressive, the jump of three degrees is called small jump, and the jump of four degrees or more is called big jump.

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of sound in music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the periodic and regular repetition of repetitive beats and weak beats in music. Traditional music in China calls the beat "board eye", and "board" is equivalent to strong beat; "Eye" is equivalent to the second strong beat (middle eye) or weak beat.

3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chord" and "harmonic progression". Chords are usually sound combinations formed by three or more notes overlapping vertically (simultaneously) according to certain rules. The transverse organization of chords is harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious functions of strong, light, thick and thin colors; It also has the functions of forming clauses, dividing paragraphs and ending music.

4. Intensity: the intensity of the midrange in music.

5. Speed: the speed of music.

6. Mode: The tones used in music are connected according to a certain relationship, and these tones form a system centered on one tone (tonic), which is called mode. Such as China's major mode, minor mode and pentatonic mode. The tones in the mode are arranged from the tonic to the highest tone to form a scale.

7. Form: the horizontal organizational structure of music.

8. Texture: the combination form of each voice in a multi-voice music work. (including vertical combination and horizontal combination).

9. timbre: timbre can be divided into vocal timbre and instrumental timbre. In the timbre of human voice, it can be divided into children's voice, female voice and male voice. The difference of musical instrument timbre is even more varied. In music, sometimes only a single timbre is used, and sometimes a mixed timbre is used.

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