Session 1 Music in our lives

Musicians

Chopin肖邦（19世纪波兰钢琴家）

Wilhelm Richard Wagner瓦格纳（19世纪德国作曲家）

Peter Tchaikovsky柴可夫斯基（19世纪俄国作曲家）

Richard Strauss理查德·施特劳斯（19-20世纪德国作曲家）

Igor Stravinsky斯特拉文斯基（20世纪俄国作曲家）

Puccini普契尼（19世纪末至战前意大利歌剧作曲家）

Contents

Music: The rationalorganization of sounds and silence passing through time.

Music is what feelings soundlike. – Victor Hugo

Popular music and classical

music: 1. Pop oft uses electric instruments, classic oft uses acoustic instruments；2.Pop oft has lyrics, classic is usually purely instrumental; 3. Pop tends to have a strong beat, in classic the beat is more subdue; 4. Pop tends to be short and repetitious, classic tends to be longer; 5. Pop oft has no musical notation, classic oft has a score

The syntax of western music

Leading tone: pull up towardsthe Home Pitch or Tonic

Large leap: a large leap isreversed by the following pitch

Harmony: the Harmony must fitwith the Melody

Chord Progression: theHarmonies usually return home to tonic