Elements of music: Tone Color

Elements of Music: Tone Color

1. Elements of Music: Tone Color Colors in Combination Waveforms and Color Audio Waveforms The Color Wheel Introduction Voices and instruments can evoke a great variety of types of sounds, from airy and light to dry and percussive, and from delicate to overwhelming. Tone Color is the musical term for these distinct and unique sounds.

2. Elements of Music: Tone Color Colors in Combination Waveforms and Color T The Color Wheel The Color Wheel . Just as all possible colors originate from different combinations of the three Primary Colors – Red, Yellow, and Blue – musical colors also share common waveforms in combination.

3. Elements of Music: Tone Color Colors in Combination Waveforms and Color The Color Wheel Audio Waveforms Audio Waveforms Just like all colors originate from the three Primary Colors, all sounds share differing amounts of four basic waveforms: sin, square, triangle, and sawtooth .

4. Elements of Music: Tone Color Colors in Combination Audio Waveforms The Color Wheel Therefore each musical instrument, human voice - indeed every sound we hear - is a unique, one-of-a-kind composite of these four sound waves. We experience this as Tone Color. Waveforms and Color Waveforms and Color

5. Elements of Music: Tone Color Waveforms and Color Audio Waveforms The Color Wheel Colors in Combination Colors in Combination . As signature sounds of instruments are combined, new colors emerge. Thus large and varied groups, like this orchestra, can produce nearly infinite varieties of combined tone colors.

6. Listening Examples Listening Examples Assessments to include make a chart of dynamic levels Analyze and map out dynamic changes in a given recording Compare use of The Color Wheel in different historical styles or genres Make a chart showingh Colors in Combination

7. In Greater Depth In Greater Depth http:// www.dangerousdecibels.org /exhibit/virtual-exhibit/

8. Assessment Assessment Assessments to include make a chart of dynamic levels Analyze and map out dynamic changes in a given recording Compare use of The Color Wheel in different historical styles or genres Make a chart showingh Colors in Combination