The three basic elements of music are rhythm, melody and harmony.

Music consists of three major elements:

1. Rhythm: The rhythm of music refers to the length and strength of sounds in music movement. The rhythm of music is often compared to the skeleton of music. Beat is the repetition of repeated beats and weak beats in music periodically and regularly. Chinese traditional music calls the beat "board eye", and "board" is equivalent to strong beat; "Eye" is equivalent to a second strong beat (middle eye) or a weak beat.

2. Melody: Melody is also called melody. The ups and downs of music are organized horizontally in an orderly manner according to a certain rhythm, forming a tune. Tune is one of the most important means of expression in a complete musical form. The direction of the melody is endless, and there are three basic directions: "horizontal", "upward" and "downward".

3. Harmony: Harmony includes "chord" and "harmonic progression". Chords are usually a sound combination formed by three or more musical notes overlapping vertically (at the same time) according to certain rules. The transverse organization of chords is harmonic progression. Harmony has obvious color functions of thick, light, thick and thin.

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Supplementary elements of music:

1. Strength: the strength of the middle tone in music.

2. Speed: the speed at which the music goes.

3. Mode: The tones used in music are connected according to a certain relationship, and these tones form a system centered on one tone (tonic), which is called mode. Such as major mode, minor mode and five-tone mode in China. The tones in the mode are arranged from the tonic to the highest to form a scale.

4. Form: the horizontal organizational structure of music.

5. Texture: the combination form (including vertical combination and horizontal combination) of each voice in multi-voice music works.

6. timbre: timbre can be divided into human voice color and musical instrument timbre. In the timbre of human voice, it can be divided into children's voice, female voice and male voice. The difference of musical instrument timbre is even more varied. In music, sometimes only single timbre is used, and sometimes mixed timbre is used.