COMS 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Leonard B. Meyer, Phatic Expression, Music Theory
24 Jun 2019
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See slides for changes in the reading schedule. The academic ways of studying music is not a good way to answer this question. People who deal with music study music theory. They take western music tradition as the model. Even if you don"t know things about music (how to read it, for example), you still know music (how it"s situated culturally, for example) Every genre has a pre-supposed mode of listening. Ex: you don"t listen in the same ways at an orchestra versus a metal concert. Ex: grocery store music or put on hold music . People are moving in and out of attention. Communication that keeps the lines of communication open. Listening to club music before going to the club. Preparing for a musical experience by listening to music. Listening to music to remind you of a certain time. He said that music sounds like emotion feels. Participatory discrepancies where bodies move in and out of each other.
