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Chapter 4
Find the Beat,
Feel the Rhythm
Time in Music
 What happens at any given moment
in music depends on four
fundamentals
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Beat – steady, recurring pulse
Rhythm – pace of music through time
Accent – emphasis on musical sound
Meter – duple or triple groups of beats;
accent on first beat; creates measures
Coordination in Music
 Keeping more than one rhythm going
at one time
 One or more complex rhythms
performed while keeping beat
 Piano, organ, drum set, etc.
Metrical Patterns and Melodic
Rhythms
 Mixing meters
 Humans commonly seek patterns in
numbers and music
 Combine two or more meters to create
interesting rhythmic organization
 Melodic Rhythm
 Distinctive rhythm pattern
 Can sense melody without the element
of pitch
Ludwig van Beethoven
 Born in 1770 in Germany to poor
family
 Began to study violin and piano at
age 4
 First self-employed composer
 Three distinct style periods
 Became totally deaf in 1815
Rhythms in Everyday Life
 Found instruments – ordinary objects
used as instruments
 STOMP
 Modern dance troupe famous for its use
of found instruments
 Experience music in a different way from
unexpected places
Improvisation
 Musician makes up music as he
performs
 Simultaneous composer and performer
 Done within musical boundaries
 i.e., Elaborate on familiar melody
 Key feature in jazz
 Direct form of self-expression
 Take chances
 Think ahead in the music
 Among highest forms of human thinking
Rhythms in the Music of the
Bamileke
 Cameroon, a republic in Africa
 Lali (warrior) dance of the Bamileke
people
 Performed only by males
 Preparation and celebration
 Ability/skill in in battle, confidence, and
manliness; tribal unity and pride
Syncopation
 Shifting accents “off the beat”
 Accents occur on weaker beats or in
between beats
 Interruption of steady beat to create
unexpected imbalance
 Ragtime– American syncopated music style
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Popular in early 20th century
Amatuer musicians could buy sheet music
Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Eubie Blake
Syncopated melody over steady beat in bass
Scott Joplin
 Born in Texas in 1868
 Taught himself to play piano
 Published first collection of rags in
1899
 Ragtime and Joplin fell out of favor
before WWI, but rediscovered in
1970s
 Works considered American classics
Creative Rythms
 Successful long-running dance and
drumming acts (STOMP, Blast, Bring
in Da Noise)
 Unusual sounds, creative rhythms,
imaginative showmanship
 Blue Man Group
 Humor and unusual instruments
 (barrels, pipes, etc.)
 Several troupes in locations around the
world
 Use of complex subdivisions of the beat
Vocabulary
 Accent – the emphasis
placed on musical
sound
 Meter – aural aspect of
music in which a
certain number of
beats are grouped
together
 Measure – the division
of beats into defined
groups separated by a
bar line
 Improvisation –
spontaneous musical
invention
 Ostinato – a repeated
musical figure
 Syncopation –
deliberate shifts of
accent so that it
conflicts with the
steady beat