Plus Some Accompanying Chords Or Ideas. Homophonic All Parts Move
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Monophonic Antiphonal Music with only one part (one note at a time). Two groups of musicians play/respond to each other from two different *You can have as many players or singers as you want on the same part performing positions. so long as it is the only part. No chords! Melody & Accompaniment Homophonic Polyphonic A melody (tune) plus some accompanying All parts move in chords at the same time. Several (2 or more) independent lines of music. chords or ideas. Tune / Line 1 Tune Moving at Tune / Line 2 the same time Tune / Line 3 Accompaniment Accompaniment *Homo-phonic = same-sound… they have the same rhythm *Poly-phonic = many-sounds… several (two or more) different tunes. Call And Response Octaves What Is The Instrument’s Role One idea played/sung and then another When parts move together, an octave apart. performer(s) responding. Melody – The tune. Call Accompaniment – The parts supporting the tune. *Same note name but different pitch. Response Countermelody – A second melody that fits Pedal with the main tune. A long or repeated note – usually in the bass. Alberti Bass Bass Line – The lowest sounding part. Accompaniment found mainly in the left hand part of piano music. Don’t play all three notes of the triad together; break Basso Continuo Long Note Repeated Note them up into four equal notes. Usually lowest, The part given to instruments in The Baroque highest, middle, highest. Drone Period that played the usually a 5th apart. Why doesn’t Long or repeated notes – bass line and chords, Mr Edwards accompanying the like playing an melody, using figured Alberti Bass? It gives him bass. Long Notes Repeated Notes the EBGBs. *Harpsichord, bass viol, organ, lute… .