MUSICCOG 2MA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fermata, Note Value, Temporal Lobe
17 Apr 2018
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Exam preparation: material goes until this thursday, 25 questions, 4 points each. Learning through travel: mark twain abroad, he helped people at home understand themselves better through travelling. Today we"re goi(cid:374)g to use this pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple to lear(cid:374) a(cid:271)out rhyth(cid:373) a(cid:374)d ti(cid:373)e i(cid:374)for(cid:373)atio(cid:374) i(cid:374) (cid:373)usi(cid:272) Timing complexity: how timing information in musical examples from different cultures compare with western music, african. Seems more random and sporadic: no clear meter. Eastern european: more standard meter (sounds like 4/4, clearer), can feel a pulse, metric elasticity: there"s a pulse and they bend away from it, and come back. Japan (traditional: rhythm is kind of there in the plucked sounds, no standard western meter or pulse. Even though we can"t hear the pulse, it can be there. In the west, we"re very fixated on the pulse. Reflection question: difference between rhythm, meter, and pulse, *bonus: list musical examples that illustrate their differences.
