MUSIC: UNITY AND VARIETY

Music: Unity and Variety

Music: Unity and Variety

Music certainly surrounds us as a backdrop to numerous of our every day activities. Most persons, although, manage not generally yield much vigilance to it. Although numerous appear to believe the proficiency to hear attentively to melodies is tough to come by, hearing mindfully and perceptively to any kind of melodies at all is a ability that can be wise by anyone. Once evolved, it can be directed to any kind of melodies for example rock, swing, academic, homeland, salsa, etc. (Small 1977)

 

            Two very significant components in melodies, as well as most other art types, are the creation of stress and release. Let's gaze at how stress and issue can be conceived by blending unity and variety.

 

Unity

Variety

RepetitionStatic harmonySmooth dynamicsUnchanging orchestrationLimited variety of pitchRhythmic continuity

Lack of repetitionChanging harmonyRadical dynamicsChanging orchestrationWide variety of pitchRhythmic variety

 

            Unity does not inevitably suggest monotony and kind does not inevitably suggest interest. By blending harmony and kind tension and release can be created. The good composer understands when to insert diverging material at the right time to issue that tension. (For demonstration by doing again an concept until the issue where the listener is about to get bored). Tension can furthermore be conceived by the need of repetition, by the use of numerous diverging and altering melodious concepts and then issued by the rapid look of recurring or static material. (Small 1977)

            On the other hand we don't have to suppose that it's incorrect to hold doing again a melodic saying after the stage where it may be advised boring. There are numerous examples where you may desire to conceive a hypnotic or soothing effect. In this case beware that there may be a stress conceived by unchanging repetition that you don't desire, so it may ...