MUSI 1500 Lecture 2: Bollywood-Week 2
7 Nov 2017
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The origin of sound is vibration cz everything has certain frequency (# of times/sec) hz. Higher notes vibrate faster and lower ones vibrate slower. Music : organized sound john cage ( western classical music) three minutes 44 sec ( his piece) Silence ( composition his piece of music) . Music can be anything, anything can be music. Univesal truth # 1 : everything made out of energy . Anahata nada: the (cid:858)unstruck sound(cid:859): not everything is hear able. The un struck sound was the first sound. Un struck sound is also sound that is happening all the time. Atoms in the air are constantly vibrating, but never actually touching. Music as a symbol ---- the three things (in pairs) Ras ----- (aise mein tera gham) ----old song----sounds can have color use of adjective to describe color of the song. A ras has a connection to one of the 9 basic emotions ( in slides) ( chandrakantha. com)
