The Importance Of Harmony In Music

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2. Harmony-When two or more different notes are played together so as to produce a chord, it is known as harmony. The movement through the harmony is known as the progression of chords. Melody is horizontal since it is linear succession of musical notes, whereas harmony is vertical in structure. For example C Major chord is a chord made up of the root C, the major 3rd E and the perfect 5th G. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 1 shows three different notes that is C,E,G played one after the other while Fig. 2 depicts all the three notes i.e C,E,G played together to constitute the ‘C Major chord’. 3. Rhythm- The time values of pitches and rests is known as rhythm. In very simple words it is movement of the music. The durational value of notes has already been explained above. The above figure shows different types of notes with different time values. There are many …show more content…

In the context of musical works it means those un-protectable building blocks of music which are inevitable in making of a musical composition. This doctrine is very important in order to separate the protectable expressions from the un-protectable expressions particularly in reference to tone and chord progression. Making of a tone progression depends upon the selection of pitches from major and the minor scales. This selection is limited in numbers and therefore similar or even identical tone progression is bound to be made in the musical world as already explained under the melody part. There are number of tone progressions which are commonly used in songs of a particular genre and are an inevitable part of it, these tone progressions fall under the category of Scènes à faire and are unprotectable. Therefore unless a tone progression is extremely unique in nature it cannot becaome a part of protectable musical

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