FAR101, Prof. Geoffrey Dean

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Got the Beat?
FAR101, Prof. Geoffrey Dean AUBG, Monday, January
26, 2009
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Paging Dr. Beat

• Na na na na na na na naNa na na na na na na
• The rhythm is gonna get youNa na na na na na na
  naNa na na na na na na
• Gloria Estefan

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vTDzkAmwCo6Y
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Elements of MusicRHYTHM

• Of the 4 basic qualities of TONE, which is most
  directly related to rhythm?
• pitch
• intensity
• timbre
• duration

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Elements of MusicRHYTHM

• How can you experience rhythm in music?
• Find the beat and keep it
• Compare 2 or more different durations of tones

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Finding the Beat

• Become aware of your own biorhythms
• Breathing
• Pulse/Heartbeat
• Look for the musics pulse
• Do you hear it or is it just implied?
• Does it have a good beat?

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PULSE

• underlying rhythmic backbone
• shows the distance between beats
• sometimes heard in the music, sometimes just
  felt

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Subliminal message

• I will sign up for .LRN
• Yes, I really will sign up for .LRN!!!
• Without delay,
• Even today,
• Oh yes, yes way!

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Keeping the Beat

• Look for the basic pace of the music
• How slow or fast does it feel?
• How quickly do musical events unfold in time?

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TEMPO

• the speed of musics basic pulse
• Composers can show tempo in two ways
• With tempo markings giving a sense of general,
  relative speed
• e.g., Adagio, Andante, Allegro, Presto

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• AND/OR
• With metronome markings
• showing exact duration of beats in terms of
  pulsations per minute e.g., 120 quarter-note
  beats per minute ( 2 beats per second)

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TEMPO EXAMPLES

• Adagio
• Andante (con moto)
• Allegretto
• Allegro (moderato, non troppo, assai)
• Presto (assai)
• See also the
• Tempo Indications HANDOUT on .LRN

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IN A CONCERT PROGRAM

• AUBG presents
• Geoffrey Dean, cello and David Huwiler, piano
• AUBG Auditorium Monday, January 26, 2009
• PROGRAM
• Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1 Beethoven
• Adagio sostenutoAllegro
• Rondo Allegro vivace
• Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 Beethoven
• Allegro ma non tanto
• Scherzo Allegro molto
• Adagio cantabileAllegro vivace

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I feel rhythmic, oh so rhythmic
Sforzando beats all
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ALTERATIONS IN TEMPO

• Accelerando speeding up
• Ritardando slowing down
• Rubato borrowing time

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Grouping beats

• How are beats organized?

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METER

• Organizes music in measured units of same
  duration MEASURES, or BARS
• Duration of the measure determined by the number
  of beats it has and the kind of note value that
  gets the beat
• The first beat of each measure is the downbeat,
  the strongest beat

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SIMPLE METERS

• Simple DUPLE meter 2 beats per measure
• Simple TRIPLE meter 3 beats per measure
• Simple QUADRUPLE meter
• 4 beats per measure
• COMPOUND METERS
• Same explanation as above just substitute
  Compound where it says Simple above

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Subdividing the beat

• Look for rhythmic patterns that emerge when
  composers subdivide the beat into equal or
  unequal parts
• Simple or Compound meter? Beats subdivided by 2s
  or 3s?

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Simple subdivisionsuse multiples of 2.

• IN SIMPLE DUPLE METER
• Beat 1 Beat 2
• STRONG-weak strong-weak
• BOOM-chuck boom-chuck
• UM-pa um-pa
• 1-and 2-and

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Compound subdivisionsuse multiples of 3

• IN COMPOUND DUPLE METER
• Beat 1 Beat 2
• BOOM-chuck-chuck boom-chuck-chuck
• SRONG-weak-weak strong-weak-weak
• 1-2-3 5-4-6
• 1-and-uh 2-and-uh

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Showing the beat

• The PHYSICALITY OF RHYTHM
• How do the beat and rhythmic patterns
• lend themselves to outward expression through
  sound and/or movement?
• Tapping, clapping, snapping
• Dancing
• Conducting

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RHYTHM

• Is the element of music ordered by pulse (beat),
  tempo, and meter
• Rhythmic patterns involve different durations of
  tones (note values) and subdivide the beat
• We can relate to rhythm by comparing tone
  durations or by externalizing the beat
• Recurring rhythmic patterns play a unifying role
  in a musical composition

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Wanna feel the rhythm?

• All you n e e d is the
• rhythm divine
• Enrique Iglesias

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXQ7ANyAOl8I
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• !

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mini-quiz No. 1

• 1. Which quality of tone is most directly
  related to rhythm?
• The English synonym for tempo is ______ .
• On Classical CDs and concert programs, the
  movement titles are often the composers Italian
  ________ ________ .
• Simple beats are subdivided by multiples of 2,
  while compound beats are subdivided by multiples
  of __ .
• 5. What activities or bodily functions
  illustrate the physicality of rhythm?

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Elements of MusicRHYTHM

• Of the 4 basic qualities of TONE, which is most
  directly related to rhythm?
• pitch
• intensity
• timbre
• duration

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TEMPO

• the speed of musics basic pulse
• Composers can show tempo in two ways
• With tempo markings
• These give a sense of general, relative speed
• e.g., Adagio, Andante, Allegro, Presto

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COMPOUND METERS

• Same names as for simple meters,
• but
• in compound meters the rhythmic subdivisions of
  the beat are in multiples of
• 3

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Showing the beat

• The physicality of rhythm
• is reflected in the way the beat and rhythmic
  patterns
• lend themselves to outward expression through
  sound and/or movement
• Tapping, clapping, snapping
• Dancing
• Conducting

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Finding the Beat

• Become aware of your own biorhythms
• Breathing
• Pulse/Heartbeat
• Look for the musics pulse
• Do you hear it or is it just implied?
• Does it have a good beat?

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E N C O R E DANCIN FOOLby Frank Zappa
(1940-1993)

• Don't know much about dancin' That's why I got
  this song One of my legs is shorter than the
  other 'N' both my feet's too long 'Course now
  right along with 'em I got no natural rhythm
  But I go dancin' every night Hopin' one day I
  might get it right I'm a dancin' fool, I'm a
  Dancin' fool I hear that beat I jump outa my
  seat, But I can't compete, 'cause I'm a Dancin'
  fool, I'm a Dancin' fool

• From the Frank Zappa album
• Sheik Yerbouti
• Shake Your Booty, 1979

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqo07OzasH5I