Help with Music! Objective listening?
Hi In school we are writing a Looooong asessment on a piece of music of our own choice. My choice is Vivaldi's Four Season: Spring allegro. This is a beautiful piece of music. The problem i have is that i have written 3 pages on his life, what i think of the song and so on and lots more .... BUT i just cant understand the last section. This last section is the Objective Listening. I need you to help me (tell me) with these points about the song : Music Listening Guide Part 1: Objective Listening – What do you hear? • Instrumentation – a cappella, instrumental, voice with instruments, choral, orchestral, solo instrument, solo voice, rock band, jazz band etc. • Meter / Time / Beat – 2-feel, 3 feel, 4 feel, changing meter, strong clear beat, weak beat etc. • Melody – is there a clear melody? Which instrument plays the melody? Does it have a big or small range? • Key / Tonality – major, minor, blues scale. • Tempo – fast/slow/moderate, does the tempo change? • Dynamics – piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, loud, soft, do the dynamics change? Crescendo, decrescendo, getting louder/softer. • Character / Mood - joyful, sad, brave, introspective, swinging, heavy, etc. • Genre / Style – rock, classical, baroque, romantic, jazz, folk, metal, hip-hop, RnB, pop, etc, What elements make the song this style? • Form - how sections of music are organized in a piece Binary form – AB Ternary form – ABA Verse-chorus-verse Introduction / Bridge / Solo / Coda • Miscellaneous – Language, meaning, purpose. I need specially help to understand how you Meter/Time/Beat works and the Form. I get nothing of that. Here is the song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZf-ZYTsx6c Thanks beforehand
How many beats in??????music help!?
Well, to properly answer that question, you have to know what time signature that you're in. Now, normal timing, or 4/4 timing, a quarter note is worth 1 beat, an eighth note is worth half a beat, and a sixteenth note is worth a quarter of a beat. (If you would like the subdivision of it, you count an eighth note, two eighth notes to a quarter, counted as "one and" and a 16th note is typically counted as "one e and a." Now, here's some fun. Any time you dot a note, you add one half of that note's original worth to it. So, if you get a dotted quarter note, its actually worth one and a half beats. In this case, a dotted whole note is worth 6 beats. So, if you really want to get into some fun, start getting into dotted 32nd notes, that is always good fun.