Audio Examples for The Sense of Music

Part 1. Fundamentals

1. The Basics of Music Notation

   1. Melody
   2. Second
   3. Unison
   4. Third
   5. Octave
   6. Fifth
   7. Seventh
   8. Fourth
   9. C major scale
   10. A major scale
   11. Aeolian mode
   12. Melody in Aeolian mode
   13. Pentatonic scale
   14. Chromatic scale
   15. Whole-tone scale
   16. Dorian mode
   17. C minor scale
   18. C major scale
   19. Some measures of 4
   20. Some measures of 6

2. Melody, Harmony, and Rhythm

   1. Relatively dissonant
   2. Relatively consonant
   3. Relatively dissonant
   4. Relatively consonant
   5. C scale and triadic chords
   6. Arpeggio based on A triad
   7. C major
   8. C minor
   9. D major
   10. D minor
   11. F major
   12. F minor
   13. C major triad
   14. C major seventh
   15. Same chord, seventh added below root
   16. Same chord, third doubled
   17. A cadence leading to a D major chord
   18. Yesterday
   19. Star Spangled Banner

3. Music’s Traditional Functions

4. Timbres: The Ways of Making Musical Sound

5. Musical Texture and Form

   1. Two measures of second flute
   2. Two measures of second violin
   3. Tchaikovsky homophony
   4. Bach fugue opening measures
   5. Melody in the second violin begins
   6. Same melody, slightly varied
   7. Contrasting idea comes in
   8. Return to the first melody