The four elements of music include the pitch, pitch length, pitch strength and timbre.

Common "formal elements" that form music:

1. Rhythm: Rhythm is a regular mutation that goes hand in hand with rhythm in the activities of nature, society and people. It is an important means of expressing lyric works to organize various changing factors in the form of repetition and correspondence to form a coherent and orderly whole (that is, rhythm).

Rhythm is not limited to the sound level, but also the movement of scenery and emotion. The change of rhythm is the origin of the development of things and the soul of artistic beauty. The result of the change of relativity.

2. Tune: the first element of music. It is a general term for singing, expressing certain musical thoughts or major melodies. Refers to the organized and rhythmic harmonious movement formed by several musical sounds through artistic conception.

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 strong, light, thick and thin color functions; It also has the function of forming clauses, dividing paragraphs and ending music.

4. strength: it refers to the strength of the musical score, and also refers to the strength in the physical concept.

5. Speed: the speed at which the music goes. "tempo" is borrowed from Italian "time" and originated from Latin "tempus". Modern music usually takes beats per minute (bpm) as the unit of speed.

6. mode: A number of musical tones with different heights are organized together according to a certain interval relationship around a certain central tone with a sense of stability to form an organic system, which is called mode.

7. Form: musical is the structural form of music. Melody forms various paragraphs in the process of development. According to the regularity of these paragraphs, the form with * * * is musical form. Structure and a musical form of a paragraph: A paragraph usually consists of two phrases or four phrases.

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

9. 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.

Extended materials

Music is an artistic form that uses auditory images composed of organized sounds to express people's thoughts and feelings and social real life. It is also one of the most instantly moving art forms. When the melody rings, people are often irresistibly immediately in the musical atmosphere. Any kind of art form has its own expression to express ideas and shape artistic images.

For example, dancing is through body movements and facial expressions, painting is through lines, colors and composition, and literature is through words, phrases, sentences and articles to embody artistic images. Usually, people distinguish different kinds of art by different means of expression, such as different musical instruments. Music can also show the intentions of musicians and music creators.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Basic Elements of Music