Quotes from Jonathan Peters

In actual pieces of music, the pitches of a chord may be duplicated and heard in many different octaves depending on the number and type of instruments playing.

Music has also been used in time of war. Its purpose was to rally the troops and to plant fear into the minds and hearts of the enemy. This happens once again through the moving of man's emotions.

measuring duration of time.

The Harmonic Mean gives us the Major Triad The Arithmetic Mean gives us the Minor Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Augmented Triad The Geometric Mean gives us the Diminished Triad

Recognizing that non-dotted notes are divisible by two and that dotted notes are divisible by three is very important to understanding rhythm.

The definition of music used in this course will be as follows: music is the universal language of emotions communicated through intelligently ordered sounds consisting of rhythm and pitch. (The first half of this definition was arrived at through

DURATION OF SILENCE