Take 5 Analysis Essay

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Amanda Hua
Dr. Todd Mueller
MUSC 1100
30 April 2017
Take Five Analysis In this paper, Take Five will be analyzed using four of the five elements of music, as well as other related facts. There are five elements of music that were taught in class; the four that will be used in this paper are rhythm, melody, harmony, and texture. Rhythm is the element of music that deals with the arrangement of sounds and silences. Melody is a collection of pitches that are played in succession. Harmony is a collection of pitches that are played at the same time. Texture is how melody and harmony are combined within a piece of music. The purpose of this paper is to analyze those four elements of music of Take Five, as well as provide other relevant and significant facts about this piece. The following are some facts that are important, but not quite falling under any element specifically. Take Five …show more content…

In rhythm, there are levels of musical time: background, middleground, and foreground. The background time, or pulse, is the beat around which other rhythms are organized. A characteristic of the background time is the subdivision of a piece. In this piece, there is a triple subdivision, which is a characteristic of all jazz pieces since the music “swings”. The middleground time, which in Western culture is called a meter, is the level at which the background pulse is organized into patterns, or accented and unaccented notes. In Take Five, the rhythm is not a usual 4/4 measure; it is a 5/4 measure. There are five beats in a measure, which is a hint to the Five in Take Five. Foreground time, the last level of musical time, envelops all the complex rhythms that happen on top of the meter and pulse of the music. In this piece, the foreground time is the emphasis on beats 2 and 4, which is called a backbeat. In Take Five, the rhythm is played by the drums, which begins the

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