There are four triad qualities in Western music, and each has a distinct acoustic character — a personality, really — that the ear recognizes immediately.
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A scale is not a melody. It is an ordered inventory of the pitches available in a given key — the pool from which melodies, harmonies, and progressions are…
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The piano keyboard is Tool Number Two, and it is the most important physical diagram in the study of Western music theory.
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The staff is Tool Number One — the primary surface on which Western music is written and read.
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Every sound has a beginning and a length. Those two facts — when a sound starts and how long it lasts — are the raw material of rhythm.
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Here is the most stripped-down definition of music you will ever encounter, and also the most durable: music is sound and silence in time.
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