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Music, The Medium of Music Written Report

Music is composed of organized sounds that are pleasing to hear. It is found in all human cultures and is produced through vocal sounds, instruments, or a combination of both. The medium of music has four main qualities: timbre, pitch, duration, and intensity. Timbre gives a sound its distinctive tone color. Pitch determines if a note is higher or lower. Duration refers to the length of a sound. Intensity is the volume, or loudness and softness. These qualities are communicated through musical notation written on a staff.

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Music, The Medium of Music Written Report

Music is composed of organized sounds that are pleasing to hear. It is found in all human cultures and is produced through vocal sounds, instruments, or a combination of both. The medium of music has four main qualities: timbre, pitch, duration, and intensity. Timbre gives a sound its distinctive tone color. Pitch determines if a note is higher or lower. Duration refers to the length of a sound. Intensity is the volume, or loudness and softness. These qualities are communicated through musical notation written on a staff.

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Music

Music is a vocal sound, instrumental sound, or both combined in such a way as to produce beauty of
form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Unlike visual arts which are composed in spaced and can be
appreciated in their visual state, music moves in time. The origin of music is unknown as it occurred
prior to recorded history. Music can be found in every culture, past or present, varying between time
and places. Every man, even the most isolated tribes have a form of music.

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. Sounds are
vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when it reaches a human or
animal’s ear. What differentiates music from ordinary sound is that music is structured and continuous
and its vibrations are uniform and synchronous creating sounds that is pleasing to the ear. In contrast,
irregular vibrations produce noise.

The Medium of Music

In music, sound which is what we call tone produced by an instrument or a voice has four qualities
known as the timbre, pitch, duration, and intensity.

Timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality, is the distinctive quality of a voice or an instrument.
Timbre makes a particular musical sound different from another, even when they have the same pitch
or loudness. Timbre distinguishes between the sound of a trumpet or a flute. The sounds differ since the
materials that produce the vibration also differ. Among humans, the voice of one differ from another
because each of us has different vocal chords. The difference in vibration is because of some factors, for
example the vibrating material’s thickness, length, and the resonator’s features which amplifies the
sounds.

Pitch is an aspect of a sound that we hear, reflecting whether one musical sound, note or tone is
“higher” or “lower” than the other. Again, vibrations and the sound-producing material determine the
pitch of a tone. The slower the vibration, the lower the pitch, the shorter the vibrating material, the
higher the pitch.

Pitch forms the ascending or descending order of notes are called scales. The distances between one
note to the next known as intervals are arranged and definite. Notes ascend when their tones move
from lower to higher pitches. It is important since they determine how tones are to be organized.

Duration is the length of sound in time. If vibrations continue, then sound continues playing, but when it
stops, we get silence. The varying length of sounds in time creates rhythm, and these variations are
what make compositions interesting.

In music, time is indicated by symbols called notes. There are seven common types of notes that
indicate the playing time differences. The following are the types of notes from the longest duration to
the shortest: the whole note, the half note, the quarter note, the eighth note, the sixteenth note, the
thirty-second note, and the sixty-fourth note. There are also intervals of silences in music which are
called rests. The following is the descending order of the types of rests: the whole rest, the half rest, the
quarter rest, the eighth rest, the sixteenth rest, the thirty-second rest, and the sixty-fourth rest.

Intensity is the loudness and softness of a sound produced by the varying degrees of pressure applied to
the instrument producing the sound. Intensity induces the emotional features in music as it moves from
loud to soft and vice-versa.

Some of the main parts in a musical piece are the Title and Author, the staff or the ledger lines, the clef
which indicates the reference pitch. Key signatures which are the sharps (#) and flats (b), the time
signature, and the notes and rests. The symbols of pitch, duration, length, and even tone are written in a
staff.

References:

Hewitt, M. (2008, April). Music Theory for Computer Musician. Retrieved from
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/music-theory-
for/30000LTI00240/30000LTI00240_ch01lev1sec4.html

Tilden, E. (2017, September 15). Parts of Music Sheet. Retrieved from https://ourpastimes.com/parts-of-
sheet-music-12210590.html

Wikipedia contributors. (2019, February 18). Music. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Music&oldid=883965695

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