The elements of composition

Duration: 0:27:00

Genre: Children's | Educational | Music

Year Published: 1956

Creator: National Educational Television: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Take melody – add harmony – rhythm – counterpoint and you have a musical composition, one element at a time. Members of the New York Woodwind Quintet return to explain and illustrate the component parts of music. Two young students of flute and clarinet play a duet by Tellemann to illustrate counterpoint. In closing, a familiar melody is selected and the children themselves choose the components for their own composition. In closing, a familiar melody is selected and the children themselves choose the components for their own composition.

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