MUL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eric Salzman, Sound, Christopher Small
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Etymology: middle english musik, from old french musique, from latin musica, from greek mousike any art presided over by the muses, especially music, from feminine of mousikos of the muses, from. 2 a : an agreeable sound : euphony b : musical quality 3 : a musical accompaniment 4 : the score of a musical composition set down on paper. 5 : a distinctive type or category of music Defined by ethnomusicologist john blacking as: humanly organized sound . Although hard to define, we know music can be or is: humanly produced, consciously organized, sonically intended, culturally expressed, aesthetically realized (involving notions about beauty) Video: what is music? (see canvas module unit i) Movement in one direction pushes the molecules of the air before it, crowding them together.
