VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Evelyn Glennie, Engine Balance, Fundamental Frequency
18 May 2016
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Vpma93 lecture 1 introduction to listening and sound. The importance of creative listening is too often ignored in discussion of musical ability, and yet it is as fundamental to music as it is to language. It is clear that the creation and performance of most music is generated first and foremost by the human capacity to discover patterns of sound and to identify them on subsequent occasions. Without biological processes of aural perception, and without cultural agreement among at least some human beings on what is perceived, there can be neither music nor musical communication. Even if a person describes musical experiences in the technical language of music, he is in fact describing emotional experiences which he has learned to associate with particular musical sounds. Currently recognized divisions between art music and folk music are inadequate and misleading as conceptual tools.
