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by
Dr. William Leland
Las Cruces, NM USA
t goes almost without saying that music, like any enterprise, has its own
group of essential elements which make up the underlying stuff of each
individual product. There is music, to be sure, which uses only some of
these elements: examples would include ancient or primitive works lacking in
harmony or strict rhythm, or certain
avant garde
compositions which may do away
with some of the traditional elements altogether. But this series of
articles will discuss those basic components of music familiar to all of us:
rhythm, melody, harmony, form, dynamics,
and
texture. To illustrate, many examples of partial scores and sound files are included
with the articles.
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