Session 2.1 We’ve all got rhythm

Musicians

Franz Peter Schubert 舒伯特（19世纪奥地利作曲家）

Robert Schumann 舒曼（19世纪德国作曲家）

Edward Elgar 爱德华·埃尔加（19-20世纪英国作曲家）

Debussy 德彪西（19-20世纪法国作曲家）

Cole Porter 科尔·波特（20世纪美国作曲家）

George Gershwin 乔治·格什温（20世纪美国作曲家）

Contents

Most music has a regular pulse to it. Some music, Gregorian chant, forexample, doesn’t have a beat. In classical music, there is a beat, which isoften supressed or subdued.

The units of 2,3: “music in duple/triple metre”.

The line that separates the groups are called bar lines or measure lines.（小节线）

Each unit constitutes a bar or a measure.（小节）

The two axes/coordinates of music: pitch and duration. (sound and time)

记谱法的起源：公元900年的修道院（从小蝌蚪文成了分离的符号）– 1200~1600年的完善（逐渐从只有pitch到加上了duration）。

Syncopation is hearing an accent off the beat.

Downbeat: the most stressed and always the first sound of everymeasure.

#To feel the tempo:

Background

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway /ˈstaɪnweɪ/, is an American and German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).Steinway is a prominent piano company, known for making pianos of high quality and for its influential inventions within the area of piano development.