MUS 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: David Tudor, Eardrum, Concertmaster
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Ethnomusicology: academic field that combines the study of music and the study of cultural. Mus152: experiencing music ethnicology: diachronically: across all of human history, synchronically: across all cultures, microcosm: tiny. Music reflects social structure: symphony orchestra industrial revolution --> rise of corporate structure. Conductor --> concert master --> section leader--> ordinary players: nomads in central african rain forest. Egalitarian society = everyone relies on everyone, you can hear everyone"s voices: sculpture shapes space, musicians shape time. Musician uses sound, sculptor uses materials: sound vs music. 1959, carnegie hall, premiere of 4"33 : pianist --> david tudor, his assistant has a stopwatch, and signals to movements . Philosophical statement = frame the moment, no place in the world where there is no sound: cosmology: your view of the universe. Branch of physics: psychophysics of sound: The disturbance sends waves which reach the outer ear and will continue to the ear drum (tympanum).
