Is there a difference between melody, rhythm, and beat?

zbeckabee

Rhythm is a pattern of notes. Rhythm and beat are NOT THE SAME. Rhythm always follows the beat, not going any faster or slower (unless the director says so). Sometime, a rhythm may even sound like the beat. When someone says they are playing a beat, however, they are WRONG: they are playing a rhythm. http://courses.fresno.edu/tbese/mcockrum/VUSDCMW/4thgrade/elements/rhythm.htm Melody is the linear aspect of music, in contrast to harmony, the chordal aspect, which results from the simultaneous sounding of tones. Melody must be considered with rhythm; they are the two necessary elements to music. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0832601.html Aug 15 06, 9:12 PM

Arpeggionist

Melody needs not necessarily be concerned with rhythm, though in modern Western music it usually is. In plainchant melody is completely free of musical rhythms and follows only the rhythm of the language, and even that very loosely. But there is a difference between rhythm, beat, and meter. Meter is the measure of the number of beats per bar and the number of bars per phrase, and so forth. Beat is the unit in which meter is measured. Rhythm is the result of making order out of beat and meter. Aug 16 06, 2:28 AM

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