Friday 9 September 2016

Sound and Timbre - Sound Sources

SOUND SOURCES

Music may be produced through three (3) Main Musical Sound Sources:
  1. The Human Body and Voice
  2. Traditional and Non-Traditional Instruments
  3. Electronically Generated 
1. Human Body and Voice
A. Voice:

Ways of using the voice: singing, humming, whistling, mouth pooping, speaking, chanting, tongue clicking, rhythmic breathing, grunting, beat-boxing, rapping, etc

4 Main Categories of Human Voice

Women                Soprano
                            Alto
Men                     Tenor
                            Bass
Shortened to SATB.


B. Body Percussion:  the art of utilizing the human body to create sounds and rhythms.

Body percussion techniques: clapping, thigh-slapping (patsch), finger-clicking, top tapping, chest thumping, stomping, high fives, stepping, hand 'warming', etc.






2. Traditional and Non-Traditional Instruments:
A. Traditional instruments: may be classified in a number of ways. We will focus on orchestral families

Orchestral families
  • Stings
  • Woodwinds
  • Brass
  • Percussion



Two (2) other families are the Keyboards and Electronic.

B. Non-Traditional  instruments: home made instruments, folk instruments etc.

Examples of non-traditional instruments include:
pot and spoon, desk top, water xylophone, grater, bagpipe, banjo, cuatro, djembe, fiddle, guitar, lute, pan flute, sitar, steelpan, etc.






3. Electronically Generated Sounds/Instruments

Produced by synthesizers, samplers, keyboards, drum-machines, computers - MIDI, electronic guitar, electronic drum, drum machine, etc.

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