What Attracts Us to Music?

Video Transcript

"Hello! My name is Duane Carter and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to be talking today about learning how to listen to and appreciate music. In the previous segment, we discussed the five elements of music. Melody, harmony, pitch, rhythm and timbre. But do you know we often use these elements to determine whether we like a piece of music or not. It's true. Do you often find yourself singing the melody because you like that melody? It sticks in your head. Or are you particularly attracted to the way the chords change from one to another backing up that melody? This is called harmony. The beat of the song is rhythm. Particularly in popular music this is the element that we are attracted to first. Timbre on the other hand is like I said in the previous segment, is the color of the music. We tend to think of ballets or slow songs having a warm timbre where the dance music is hot. Pitch is something we think of subconsciously particularly when a song is sung or played out of tune then we recognize that something is wrong with the pitch. "