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Music Theory Field Manual - Christopher Galvan
CHAPTER 1
FUNDAMENTALS
THE MUSIC ALPHABET
There are 7 letters used to identify notes in music. However, there are 12 total notes in western music (see the chromatic scale).
The 7 note musical alphabet is as follows:
ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG ABCDEFG A
Above, the scale has travelled a range of 5 octaves. Different instruments have different ranges. For example, a 24-fret electric guitar has a range of 4 octaves (EFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDEFGABCDE) in standard tuning.
HARMONY AND MELODY DEFINITIONS
Harmony (polyphonic) is a word that is very often misunderstood. Harmony means two or more notes are occurring simultaneously. Harmonies relate vertically, which can be clearly seen in written notation. The jargon for notes relating vertically is polyphony.
Polyphony means chords, or the study of chords.
Harmony does not mean that notes are necessarily working together euphoniously. They are simply interacting. The notes may in fact be interacting in a very unstable relationship. Unstable harmonic or melodic relationships are referred to as dissonant and contrarily stable relationships would be referred to as consonant.
Melody (monophonic) is one note following another. Within melodies, notes relate to each other in a linear or horizontal way. Like harmony, the term melody is often misused to describe a linear relationship that is considered pleasing.
To musicians, melodic
means that the section of music is dominated by horizontal function, and harmonic
means that the section of music is dominated by vertical function.
Musicians do not assign judgmental terms to sounds. For instance, a schooled musician would never refer to a harmonic or melodic interval as ugly
. An interval is simply a distance between pitches.
In summary:
Harmony = polyphonic = vertical intervals = chords
Melody = monophonic = horizontal intervals = scales/arpeggios
Consonance is stable; Dissonance is unstable.
SIMPLE INTERVALS ASCENDING
The distance from A up to: the same A is called a UNISON
SIMPLE INTERVALS DESCENDING
The distance from A down to: the same A is called a UNISON
COMPOUND INTERVALS
The distance from A up to: