MUS 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yodeling, Bonang, Stomp Dance
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Active listening: does the music create a mood, what are the instruments, tempo, dynamics, rhythm, melody, mode, does music have structure, context/setting for music, function of music, who are performers/composers, #12 trenke, todorke (bulgarian) Decibels: any lvl above 85 decibels are bad. Pattern/scale/mode/key: these are the culturally defined bases for melody and harmony (combination of pitches. Improvisers and composers use defined patterns of pitches/scales/keys to create pieces: concepts vary from culture to culture, the west (most of europe and americas) used major/minor scales for 400 years, East asia and middle east use different scales. Chorus: polyphonic = two or more equal, indepenedent lines, homophonic = melody plus harmony/accompaniment. Music culture model pg 13-16: affective experience, performance, community, history/memory. Instruments: aerophones (columns of air that vibrate to make sound, chordophones (chord means string, membranophones (membrane vibrates) Idiophone (not column of air, not chord, not membrane, ex imbira: electrophones.
