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What to study before Texture

Monophony, homophony and polyphony: how many independent lines are sounding and how they relate. Below, the concepts that come before, in the order in which one explains the next. Signed in, you see the same path minus what you already hold: your path.

Properties of sound
The four properties every musical sound has at once: duration, intensity, pitch and timbre.
Level 0
Note
The seven pitch names, and the sign that puts one of them on the page.
Level 1
Tone and semitone
The smallest distance Western music uses, and the whole tone built from two of them.
Level 1lesson Notes have names, and the names have a rule (First steps in theory)
Interval
The distance between two sounds, counted by note names, melodic or harmonic, simple or compound.
Level 1lesson The distance between two notes (First steps in theory)
Scale
A series of successive notes separated by tones and semitones, ascending or descending.
Level 4
Melody
A succession of sounds of different pitch and value that follows a musical logic.
Level 5
Chord
Three or more different sounds at once, and the difference between the model and its many positions.
Level 4
Texture
Monophony, homophony and polyphony: how many independent lines are sounding and how they relate.
Level 6