MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethiopian Chant, Music Of Tibet, Vedic Chant
12 Oct 2016
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Devotional music - music which has a role in religion or ritual. Religion - any system of beliefs particularly in relation to beings or entities whose existence we can"t verify. Religion concerns the universe and our position in it: music brings people together. Rituals gave an established sequence of events, participants with specific roles and perhaps costumes: rituals feel religious even if they aren"t, there"s nothing religious in the music you think are religious. Often either prose rhythm or repetitive pulse, usually words are important (chant delivers the. Small range, monophonic prayer: prose rhythm - non pulsatile, free rhythm, pulse follow the words. Functional: there"s a use for it, not for entertainment. Vedic - a whole body of knowledge derived from these books: devine sound. World began by a sound instead of a word: n da : organized or (cid:272)ultivated sound, a(cid:271)da : ordinary sound. Kol nidre from the service for yom kippur.
