Introducing the basics of music

Music can be divided into two major types of vocal music and instrumental music, and can be roughly divided into classical music, folk music, original music, modern music (including pop music) and so on. Among the types of art, music has an abstract nature, and music can be divided into oriental music and western music in terms of historical development. In the East, the ancient Chinese theory, led by Chinese Han music, is based on the five-tone scale, i.e., Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng and Feather, while in the West, the seven-tone scale is dominant.

Expanded Information

Basic Elements of Music: The basic elements of music refer to the various elements that make up music, including the height of the tone, the length of the tone, the strength of the tone and the timbre. From these basic elements combined with each other to form the common "form elements" of music, such as: tune, rhythm, harmony, and strength, speed, key, pattern, weave, timbre and so on. The formal elements that make up a musician are the means of musical expression. The most basic elements of music are melody and rhythm.

1, tune: tune is also called melody. High and low musical notes according to a certain rhythm in an orderly horizontal organization, the formation of tunes. Tunes are the most important means of expression in the form of music, is the essence of music, is the decisive factor in music. The direction of the tune is ever-changing, and there are three basic directions: "horizontal", "upward" and "downward".

The direction of the same tone is called horizontal; the direction from the bass to the treble is called upward; and the direction from the treble to the bass is called downward. The common ways of proceeding in a tune are: "same-tone repetition", "cascade" and "skip". The neighboring tones of the scale are called steps, the jumps of three degrees are called small jumps, and the jumps of four degrees and more are called big jumps.

2. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of the tones in the musical movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Rhythm is the periodic and regular repetition of heavy and weak beats in music. Traditional music in China refers to the beat as the "plate and eye", with the "plate" being equivalent to the strong beat and the "eye" being equivalent to the sub-strong beat (the middle eye) or the weak beat.

3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chords" and "harmonic progression". Chords are usually formed by three or more notes that overlap vertically (at the same time) according to certain laws. The horizontal organization of chords is the harmonic progression. Harmony has a distinctive coloring effect of intensity, lightness, thickness, and thinness; it also has the effect of forming phrases, subsections, and terminating the piece.

4, intensity: the degree of strength of the sound in the music.

5, speed: the speed of music.

6, modulation: music in the use of tone according to a certain relationship between the connection, these tones to a tone as the center (the main tone) constitutes a system, is called modulation. Such as major modes, minor modes, China's pentatonic modes. The tones in the modes are arranged from low to high from the main tone to form a scale.

7, tune: the horizontal organization of music.

8. Weave: the combination of voices in a polyphonic musical work. (Including vertical combination and horizontal combination relationship).

9, timbre: timbre of human voice color and instrument timbre. In the human voice color can be divided into children's voices, female voices, male voices and so on. Musical instrument timbre difference is more diverse. In music, sometimes only a single tone, and sometimes use a mixture of tones.