Author Question: Understanding structural arrangement and how music is organized also helps us understand how various ... (Read 53 times)

Garrulous · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Understanding structural arrangement and how music is organized also helps us understand how various cultures and subcultures think about time and space in general but there is more to music than the structure of sounds. What else beyond the structural elements of rhythm, meter, melody, and harmony, do we need to study to gain a complete understanding of the music?

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Question 2

In general, form in the arts means structural arrangement. In music form refers to patterns of organization in rhythm, melody, and harmony. A musical thought is made up of phrases that result from the combinations of sounds. Name two examples that illustrate how form is used to organize music. (Examples may vary.)

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Silverbeard98 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The social activities and ideas of the people who are making the music . . . all of the aspects of the music, not just its sound.

Answer to Question 2

the order of solos in a jazz or blue-grass performance
the orchestration of a symphonic piece (that is, which instruments play which parts and when)
the typical three-line stanzas (verses) of blues lyrics and blues chord progressions
small units and variation found in traditional Native-American melodies