Music Appreciation Notes 8 26 Notes for Exam 1 Music Piece Notes Trepak Notes Is translated as Ukrainian Dance Is classified as a folk dance song Was written in duple meter Was written and performed in 1892 Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy Notes Is classified as a ternary dance so it contains 3 parts Consisted of pattern A B A Since Tchaikovsky was Russian it caused people to call it the Russian Dance Has a lighter airier tone lending to the character The Fairy in the Nutcracker The use of a minor tone denotes the idea quality of mysteriousness Major Mode denotes a sense of celebration triumph and is typically louder Minor Mode basically is the opposite is typically slow quieter and mysterious Vocabulary Timbre Dynamics Rhythm Texture hetero phonic Major Minor Harmony Quality of instruments voices combinations of the two Relative loudness softness of the music Ordered patterns of durations Beats Meters Number and relationship of layers Can be mono poly homo and Quality of chords within those layers Consonant Dissonant or Form The sequence of ideas melodies themes or In Western music they are typically grouped by double triple meters A duple meter subdivided equally Not as much as Compound Duple Meter Repetition Variation Contrasts Meters Duple Meter Simple complex duple meter simple duple meter Monophonic Texture Polyphonic Texture Homophonic Texture particular is dominant Heterophonic Texture Consonance Dissonance Is a duple meter but subdivided much more than A single unaccompanied melody Simultaneous equally important melodies Multiple simultaneous melodies but one melody in Explained later in lecture When everything comes together in the music is wholesome More tense sounds as though the song is unresolved 2