What four elements are included in music?

Rhythm, melody, harmony, and timbre.

Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of the tones in the movement of the music. 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. In traditional Chinese music, the beat is called the "plate-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.

Melody: the primary element of music. Usually refers to a number of musical notes through artistic conception and the formation of an organized, rhythmic sequence. Constituted by a certain pitch, timing and volume, with a logical element of a single voice. Melody is composed of many basic elements of music, such as key, rhythm, beat, intensity, timbre performance method way, etc., organic combination.

Harmony: Harmony includes "chords" and "harmonic progressions". A chord is usually a combination of 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 a piece of music.

Timbre: the frequency of different sounds in terms of waveforms always have distinctive characteristics. Different objects have different characteristics of vibration. As the world's leaves are different. Different sound-emitting body due to its material, structure is different, the sound emitted by the timbre is also different, such as the piano and violin and the human voice is not the same; each person's voice will also be different.

Expanded Information

Music is an art that reflects the emotions of real human life (English name: music; French name: musique; Italian: musica).

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 is abstract, and music can be divided into oriental and western music in terms of its historical development.

The ancient Chinese theory of the East, led by Chinese Han music, is based on the five-tone scale, i.e., Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng, and Feather, while the West is based on the seven-tone scale. Music is pleasing to the eye and brings aural enjoyment to all. Music can improve one's aesthetic ability, purify people's hearts and set up lofty ideals. We express our feelings through music, so that many of our emotions are released.