expressive

The sort of extra-musical meaning in music that has seemed to most observers to be of greatest importance is expressive meaning, that is, the expression by music of psychological states. The states music has been held to be capable of expressing include emotions, feelings, moods, attitudes and traits of personality.

In other words, a performance of music may be perceived as expressive of a specific emotion simply because something in the music (a melody, timbre) has been repeatedly and arbitrarily paired with other meaningful stimuli or events in the past.

The expressive effects I'm talking about here are both visual and vocal. They include dynamic shaping, changes in tone colour, inflections on words, and rubato in the vocal dimension, and body language, facial expression and choreographed moves in the visual dimension.

What are Some Elements of Musical Expression?

• Rhythm. Probably one of the most easily recognized musical elements, rhythm is everything that has to do with the time of the piece.
• Beat. Each foot stomp or hand clap represents a beat in the song's rhythm.
• Meter.
• Tempo.
• Syncopation.
• Dynamics.
• Melody.
• Pitch.

Anything that communicates thoughts or feelings is expressive. Expressive comes from the French word expres for "clear, plain.” It's easy to read people who are expressive, their emotions are clear. Smiling, laughing, shouting, crying, and pouting are all expressive.

full of expression : full of expression. also : openly expressing one's feelings. an expressive face.

These fluctuations of tension in structure, rhythm, harmony or melody of a given music have impact on the perception of emotions through music – the theory of ebb and flow. This theory implies that music evokes emotions in patterns of tension and release.

​The expressive arts include art and design, dance, drama and music. Through learning in expressive arts your child will: enjoy the energy and excitement of performing and presenting for different audiences and of being part of an audience for others.

Expressive techniques are the details and additions that a composer or performer applies in a piece of music to enhance its style. For example, an expressive technique for an electric guitar is the use of distortion to convey a rock music style. Expressive techniques and dynamics are linked.

What is expressiveness in singing? Simply, it's adding your own personal touch and interpretation to a song, through your voice and phrasing, facial expressions and body movements, or stage presence.

music, art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony.

Expressive Style They use fewer nouns and more social and functional words, like “hi” or “mine”. Language is used mainly to express feelings and needs, and to socialize. Another tendency of expressive speech is to lump two words together into one (also known as “unanalyzed wholes”). For example, “allgone” or “stopit”.