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In the last video, you heard a band build up the main ingredients or ‘elements’ that comprise the various layers of time, pitch and texture in a piece of music. In this article, we’ll be taking a closer look at these elements and explaining them in a bit more detail.
We recommend that you spend some time on this aspect of the course as it will considerably help your understanding and appreciation of the ideas explored in the weeks to come.
The theoretical components of music may seem overly technical and difficult to grasp when you first encounter them, but they can be ‘understood’ in a number of different ways. For example, whenever we sing a song or play chords on the guitar, we are demonstrating some understanding of the concepts of melody and harmony. You could think of this in the same way as ‘knowing’ how to throw and catch a ball; we may not understand the physics or maths of projectile motion and air resistance, but we do have an idea of how a ball is likely to travel through the air – often built up through experience and trial and error.
