texture

Examples of texture in the following topics:

• Texture

• Texture

  • Texture refers to the tactile quality of the surface of an art object.
  • It is based on the perceived texture of the canvas or surface, which includes the application of the paint.
  • In the context of artwork, there are two types of texture: visual and actual.
  • Visual texture refers to an implied sense of texture that the artist creates through the use of various artistic elements such as line, shading and color.
  • The Starry Night contains a great deal of actual texture through the thick application of paint.

• Introduction

  • Texture is one of the basic elements of music.
  • When you describe the texture of a piece of music, you are describing how much is going on in the music at any given moment.
  • For example, the texture of the music might be thick or thin, or it may have many or few layers.
  • Below you will find some of the formal terms musicians use to describe texture.
  • Suggestions for activities to introduce the concept of texture to young students can be found in Musical Textures Activities.

• Rash

  • A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture.
  • A rash is a change of the skin which affects its color, appearance, or texture.

• Hatching and Cross-Hatching

  • Hatching and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal, shading, and textural effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
  • Hatching and cross-hatching are artistic techniques used to create tonal, shading and textural effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines.
  • Cross-hatch lines are used to provide additional tone and texture and can be oriented in any direction, often overlapping each other to create heavily shaded areas.

• Terms that Describe Texture

  • There are many informal terms that can describe the texture of a piece of music (thick, thin, bass-heavy, rhythmically complex, and so on), but the formal terms that are used to describe texture all describe the relationships of melodies and harmonies.
  • Here are definitions and examples of the four main types of texture.
  • For specific pieces of music that are good examples of each type of texture, please see below.
  • A heterophonic texture is rare in Western music.

• Antithesis

  • Anthesis adds stylistic texture to your speech through the presentation of contrasting ideas and an opposite point of view.
  • Use that as a springboard to begin pinning down points of contrast to give your speech stylistic texture.

• Introduction

  • The "top down" perspective we'll follow in this chapter seeks to understand and describe whole populations by the "texture" of the relations that constrain its individual members.
  • Most "texture" of the society will be one in which individuals have strong ties to relatively small numbers of others in local "clusters. " Compare this to a society where a large portion of the population lives in a single large city.
  • Here, the "texture" of social relations is quite different -- individuals may be embedded in smaller nuclear families of mating relations, but have diverse ties to neighbors, friends, co-workers, and others.
  • The extent of local "clustering" in populations can be quite informative about the texture of everyday life.

• A Brief History of Basso Continuo

  • Performing five or six lines of contrapuntal choral music could be a significant challenge, so organists needed a way to condense the texture while still preserving the core musical structure to support the vocalists.
  • In the study of harmony, a thoroughbass line can play a valuable role as a harmonic reduction of a complex texture, in order to example and understand better the harmonic skeleton underlying a passage.
  • In voice-leading, the basso continuo texture affords a straightforward environment in which to make a gradual, staged progression through the intricacies of writing musical lines in a harmonic texture—and to do so without paying significant attention to harmony.

• Introduction

  • Many pieces of music have rhythm, melody, harmony, color, and texture, but no real counterpoint.
  • In fact, when describing the texture of a piece of music, two of the most important questions that need to be addressed are: is there counterpoint, and how important is it?
  • The music that is made up of counterpoint can also be called polyphony, or one can say that the music is polyphonic or speak of the polyphonic texture of the music.
  • "Barbershop"-style music is another good example of this homophonic, or chordal, kind of texture, which is not considered counterpoint.
  • This gives the music a much richer, more interesting texture.