| Suite Bergamasque for solo piano (1890) |
| Music vs. Noise | |
| Well Known vs. Unfamiliar | |
| “Organized Sound” |
| Working Definition: | |
| Music consists of intentional combinations of sounds arranged so as to produce a work of art that provides aesthetic enjoyment, that expresses something, that follows some kind of internal logic, and exhibits intelligible structure. |
| Intentional combinations of sounds | |
| Work of art | |
| Aesthetic enjoyment | |
| Expresses something | |
| Internal logic | |
| Intelligible structure |
Characteristics of Musical Sound
| Pitch - high versus low. | |
| Loudness - Loud versus soft. | |
| Duration - Long versus short. | |
| Timbre - tone quality/color. |
| Always a vibrating object |
| Guitar string | |
| Double bass | |
| Adam’s apple | |
| Speaker cone |
| 20 - 20,000 Vibrations per second |
| The greater the rate of oscillation, the higher the pitch | |
| The greater the displacement, the louder the sound |