1. Rhythm:

The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is used to represent the periodic and regular repetition of heavy beats and weak beats in music.

2. Melody:

The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally in an orderly manner according to a certain rhythm to form a melody, which is used to express the melody. Melody is one of the most important means of expression in the complete musical form.

3. Harmony:

Harmony includes "chords" and "harmonic progressions". The horizontal organization of chords is the harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious color effects of thick, light, thick and thin; it also has the function of forming phrases, dividing sections and ending music.

4. Intensity:

Used to indicate the strength of the mid-tone in music.

5. Speed:

Used to indicate the speed of music.

6. Mode:

Used to indicate that the sounds used in music are connected in a certain relationship. These sounds form a system with one sound as the center (the main sound), which is called mode. .

7. Music form:

Used to represent the horizontal organizational structure of music.

8. Texture:

Used to represent the combination form of each voice in a polyphonic musical work.

9. Tone:

Used to indicate that the frequency expression of different sounds always has distinctive characteristics in terms of waveforms.

Extended information

The basic elements of music are the various elements that make up music, including the pitch of the sound, the length of the sound, the strength and timbre of the sound. These basic elements are combined with each other to form the commonly used "formal elements" of music

Related terms:

1. Texture:

It is the structural form of music one. The meaning of this word is relatively broad. In musical works, it often involves two aspects: one is the form in "time", and the other is the form in "space".

2. Music form:

It is the structural form of the music. The melody forms various paragraphs during the development process. According to the regularity of the formation of these paragraphs, finding a unique format is the musical form.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Basic Elements of Music