Aspects of Cow Bell Music

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

 

Aspects of Cow Bell Music

 

 

Primary Aspects

 

Cow melody

is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit

Cow harmony

is the relationship between two or more simultaneous pitches or pitch simultaneities.

Cow rhythm

is the variation of the accentuation of sounds over time.

Cow bell tone color or timbre

Timbre is the quality of a sound, determined by the fundamental and its spectra: overtones or harmonics and envelope, and varies between voices and types and kinds of musical instruments, which are tools used to produce sound. It includes: tone color and articulation.

Meadow form

is the structure of a particular piece, how its parts are put together to make the whole.

Pitch

is the perception of the frequency of the sound experienced, and is perceived as how "low" or "high" a sound is, and may be further described as definite pitch or indefinite pitch. It includes: melody, harmony, tonality, tessitura, and tuning or temperament.

Intensity or dynamics

is how loud or quiet a sound is and includes how stressed a sound is or articulation.

Duration

is the temporal aspect of music; time. It includes: pulse, beat, rhythm, rhythmic density, meter, tempo.

 

- The primary aspects combine to create secondary aspects including form or structure, texture, and style. Other commonly included aspects include the spatial location, echo from rock face, or the movement in space of sounds, gesture, and dance. Silence is also often considered an aspect of music, if it is considered to exist.

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

 

Secondary Aspects of Cow Music

 

Structure

includes: motive, subphrase, phrase, phrase group, period, section, exposition, repetition, variation, development, and other formal units, textural continuity.

 

Texture

is the interaction of temporal and pitch elements. It includes: homophony, polyphony, heterophony, and simultaneity.

 

Style

is defined by how the above elements are used. It is what distinguishes an individual composer or group, period, genre, region, or manner of performance.

 

Aesthetics

is another element that many do not know. This is how the music affects you emotionaly. For example: an upbeat tune may make you joyful, while a slow violin song may make you feel lonely, cold, or depressed.

[Rudolf von Hagenwil]

 

The Eight Primary Cow Bell Auditory Phenomena

 

Loudness

Pitch

Timbre

Toneness

Apparent location

Streaming

Numerosity

Sensory

Dissonance

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