MUSIC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gustav Mahler, The Vibrations, Impermanence
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Music is the art of sound in time. Remember death one of the symbols. Some answers have to do with what you hear. Some have to do with what you associate with what you hear. Some have to do with what you may know about the history or tradition connected to what you hear. Some have to do with the social situation of the music. All of those thi(cid:374)gs are part of what we"ll liste(cid:374) for a(cid:374)d talk a(cid:271)out i(cid:374) this (cid:272)ourse. Defining music (cid:862)musi(cid:272) is the art of sou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) (cid:862)pleasa(cid:374)t sou(cid:374)ds that e(cid:374)d(cid:863: generated by humans. What does that mean for: music as a symbol of human activity or interaction, music as a symbol of impermanence. Compare these two pictures, both from in or near edmonton near the beginning of the last century. As those definitions of music remind us, it is about sound in time.
