MUS 185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Art Music, Enculturation, Mantle Hood
4 Apr 2016
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Music is often closely tied to other domains (dance, drama) Music is universal, yet widely variable in character from culture to culture. The 4 components of a music-culture: ideas about music, activities involving music, repertories of music, the material culture of music. Value judgments: certain types of music are more important than others. Contexts: who, where, when, why a piece of music happens. Our repertoire: all the music we know. Tangible items (instruments, sheet music, ipods, vinyl records, etc. ) A system of instrument classification (based on what is vibrating) Instruments were classified based on what vibrates to. Aerophones: instruments that feature a vibrating column of air. Membranophones: instruments that feature a stretched membrane that vibrates. Idiophones: instruments in which the body of the instrument itself vibrates ( self-sounding instruments) One more category added later b/c of technology. The instrumental or vocal components of a performance. The various traits or characteristics that impart style or structure to a piece of music.
