MUS 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Om Mani Padme Hum, Minimal Music, Trance Music
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Syllabic delivery, with one note per syllable; focus on chanting as it lets you focus on it. Dbyangs tone contour chanting: experience of msuci, leaving reality and contacting a different realm, spirit possession, meant for this purpose. Music enables listerens to enter a trance state. Ritauls break down the mundane everyday world and allows eternal world to emerge. Multiple players play as a form of conversation. Used to be a fast tempo but during time of great depression and anger the msuic changed to slower. Form of communication and music merged eventually - powerful form of communication. 3 different types of drums with different purposes. Survival of the fittest became the topic of the generation; everyone became individuals; individual prosperity above. While the rich were getting richer, the poor were worse off. Different feeling we are all in this together rather than individualism. Boxed in feeling but young people began to break free of these constraints.
