2nd TERM

MELODY: Is an organized succession of musical tones that expresses a musical idea. Usually, it gives the main character of the music.

How is it made? By a succession of sounds, normally with different pitches and duration.

• MUSICAL PHRASES: Melodies are structures in sections called phrases (themes). These are separated by pauses-cadences.

HARMONY: Is the use of simultaneous pitches or chords. It is said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music to distinguish fron the melodic lines, or the "horizontal" aspect.

 →CHORD: A group of notes played at once. How is it made? By overlapping 3 or more simultaneous sounds. How are they formed? Overlapping 3rd intervals over a bass note call ROOT NOTE. 

→TRIAD: Is the simplest chord that Harmony can use. What is it? A group of 3 notes having a specific construction and relationship to one another. Where are they constructed? On consecutive spaces. Each member of the triad is separated by an interval of third.

• Of what is composed the triad?  ⇰ ROOT NOTE.

                                                               ⇰ THIRD.
                           
                                                               ⇰FIFTH.                    
INVERSIONS: In chords, you can order its notes in different ways, deppending on the note the you put in the bass. ALL CHORDS HAVE 3 POSITIONS: (you only have to change the positions of the notes and the intervals)

1. ROOT POSITION: When the bass is the root note.
2. FIRST INVERSION: When the 3rd is the bass note.
3. SECOND INVERSION: When the 5th is in the bass.