2. In this lesson, you will learn ,
� What music is
� What music theory fundamentals are
� Examples of music theory fundamentals
� Waves
3. What is Music
� Music is vocal or instrumental sounds(or both) combined in such a way as to
produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion.
� Something that is very pleasant or gratifying to hear or discover.
5. What is sound
� Mechanical pressure waves that travel through physical medium are called waves.
� Examples for physical mediums include air, water, bricks.
� And cannot travel through the universe or vacuum.
� Sound has the properties called frequency, speed, amplitude, duration, wave
length
6. A sound wave Picture illustrating the rare
fractions and compressions
9. What is a Trough and what is a crest in a
sound wave graph
10. 2.What is pitch
� Specific frequency of sound produced by vibrating object.
� For example guitar or violin strings.
� Musically a pitch is like the harmonic value of a note and it is said to be higher or
lower than other pitches.
� For Example G5 note has a higher pitch than the C5.
12. 3. What is a note in music
� A name given to a specific pitch (for example C, D, E, F,….. .) with a particular
duration, loudness and quality.
� If two notes have the same pitch even though the rhythmic values varies, then they
are the same note.
� For example if we press and hold the note C for 1 second and if we press and hold
the same note for 2 seconds, we’ve played the same note.
13. 4. What is Timbre
� Timbre is like sound colour or sound quality that comes from different instruments.
� For example,
1. C note played on the piano
2. C note played on the guitar
3. C note played on the violin
4. C note played on the sitar.
