The Elements of Music INTRODUCTION The purpose of this appendix is to explore the world of sound as music, treating the various means of manipulating sound to create music and the terms and concepts associated with doing so. In this way, you can acquire a vocabulary for describing and understanding what you hear in music. Reading this appendix in advance will help you to assimilate the material in the previous chapters much more easily, and it will facilitate discussion of the musical examples to which you will be listening. Each listening example is accompanied by a listening guide which provides...