MUSIC 2II3 Lecture : Elements of Music.docx
10 Dec 2012
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Instrumentation: what instruments do we hear playing, small or large group of instruments, social resonance. If you have large musical forces performing then this is a style of music that costs money to make economic terms. Dictates who is making this music and to whom this music speaks. Contrasted with producing the sound with voice, different sound and quality: falsetto: singing higher than normal range, crooning/crooner: singers who sang in this style. Associated with male singers more than females (frank sinatra: development of microphone technology allowed this style to be created. Opera singers needed to project and develop huge voices because microphone technology had not been created at the time. Four major kinds of musical styles that we need to take into account. Elements of existing music styles came to combine into elements of rock and roll in the 1950"s: tin pan alley, country (hillbilly, blues, gospel.
