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[trio playing] texture refers to the relationship of voices and instruments in an ensemble. Its the way theyre blended together into a musical whole. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] what id like to do now is start with the tenor section, then the alto and the soprano, and then ill add the bass. One, two, three, and jesus is a rock in a weary land. narrator the subject of musical texture raises a number of questions. How are the different voices or instruments in a performance put together and organized . Lets add the altos, altos, tenor, and bass, ready jesus is a rock i...

How the pitches relate to each other is defined in western music theory as harmony. man to me, harmony is similar to the spice that you use when youre creating a sauce. Youve got a melody. There are many different ways you can harmonize the same melody, and the way you choose to harmonize it is what will give you a different emotional response. So in that sense, i really feel that the harmony is responsible for how a melody makes you feel. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] [keyboard plays light jazz music] man harmony can best be described as notes sounding together in com...

Funding for this program was provided by the Annenberg Cpb project. [spirited piano melody] male narrator there are as many ways to approach the creation of music as there are creative artists. [jazzy saxophone music] the process falls on a continuum between improvisation, musical creation that takes place during performance, [banjo plucking] pretty polly. And composition, musical creation conceived before performance. Compositions are preserved, either through memory or notation, so that they can be repeated over and over again. leek a composers role, i think, is to provide enough information...

Slobin technology has become quite decisive for world musicmaking since the advent of the Industrial Age in a few key ways. One is the creation of new instrument types that simply couldnt be built before. The modern piano depends on high steel techniques that just simply werent available until a certain point in the 19th century. Instruments like the modern saxophone, the modern flute these are all hightech in a 19th century way. [screeching, reverberating cymbal crash] another way in which technology has become decisive is in the invention of sound reproduction. It simply was the case that be...

That are in love with each other. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] narrator all over the world with instruments and voice, people create an uncountable number of melodies in an enormous variety of styles. The methods in which a musical culture generates its melodic forms depend on the musical rules and practices of that culture. These rules are employed by composers and performers, and are implicitly understood by listeners as well. That baby boy i never saw before. narrator but at the basis of all melodic form is the concept of vibrational frequency or pitch. [low, airy ...