Listening Response: Musical Dimensions

MUSC 111 Ginger

Your name: Robert Phillips

Review your notes from last week. If any of the terms below are uncertain for you, look them
up in your textbook. *If you cite the textbook, please use parenthetical citations, like this (45).*

1. Define musical beat.

Beat is a pulse dividing music into equal units

Name one (1) piece of music in any style which has a memorable or prominent beat. Explain
your answer in one (1) sentence. Please include a link to a recording on Spotify or YouTube.
Broken Window Serenade by Whiskey Myers. The beat in this song is memorable because it has
a consistent pulse on the offbeat
https://youtu.be/_bto0UKEZNA

2. Define melody.
Melody is the succession of pitches

Name one (1) piece of music in any style which has a memorable melody (to you). Explain your
answer in one (1) sentence. Please include a link to a recording on Spotify or YouTube.
The melody from Cinema Paradiso is memorable to me because of how beautiful and emotional
it is
https://youtu.be/9Aqj6u_7kFM

3. Define harmony.
Harmony is two or more pitches sounding at once

Name one (1) piece of music in any style which has compelling harmonies (to you). Explain your
answer in one (1) sentence. Please include a link to a recording on Spotify or YouTube.
I Wonder If I Care as Much by the Everly Brothers. I love how the harmony is often times
relatively dissonant but then resolves into an agreeable sound at the very end of each stanza.

https://youtu.be/Y1FveqDLH7A

4. In your own words, define musical color (see Wright pp. 33-40 for a discussion of color).
Musical color is the unique tone or sound produced by an instrument or singer.
Name one (1) piece of music in any style that prominently features many different musical
colors. Explain your answer in one (1) sentence. Please include a link to a recording on Spotify
or YouTube.
Elanor Rigby has many musical colors. The string accompaniment features higher pitched
instruments such as a violin that has a piercing bright tone, as well as instruments such as cello
with a much darker richer tone.
https://youtu.be/6gluNoLVKiQ