MUS 1751 Lecture : Lecture 1
Document Summary
Why do we listen to music: gives us pleasure, affects our minds and bodies, intensifies and deepens our feelings, heightens the emotional experience of events. Listening to music----a physical reaction to a disturbance in our environment. A sound machine creates a vibration+ creates sound waves+ processed by the inner ear+ converted into electrical signals+ transported by neurons+ primary auditory cortex in the center of the brain+ increased dopamine= mood enhancement. Musical sounds tend to be regular in their vibration. Acoustics remain the same but the means of capturing and preserving sound have been constantly evolving. Benedictine monks began to find ways to notate their religious chants. Around 1250 more popular styles of music began to be notated. As the centuries go by the written music or scores become more elaborate with tempo (how fast) markings and dynamic (how loud or soft) markings.
