MUSI 2008 Lecture Notes - Aerophone, Overtone Singing, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
7 Jul 2014
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How do people make music? songs to play?) By producing the sounds they call music. Musicking : christopher small: both ideas and sounds, everything that has to do with music making as consumer, producer, fan, etc, meanings and purposes of music. Characteristic sounds of a particular place, both human and nonhuman. Varies from place to place, determined of area. Acoustic environment where sounds, including music, occur. Postal works cancelling stamps at the university of ghana. Music is universal, musical meaning is not! Musical meaning is derived from culture: transmission: directed (music is learned in strict environment) vs enculturation (experiencing music by just being there) Ways music is transmitted: orally, aurally, written, electronic. Culture inheritance of musical meanings: the meaning of musical situations and appropriate behaviours in those situations. Everything that has to do with music. Patterns of sound organized by human beings, distinct from speech and everyday sonic occurrences; it must be understood and have meaning in context.
