HUMS 3102 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Opera, Counterpoint, String Instrument
19 Nov 2018
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Classical music vs popular music: classical music = "art" music or "serious" music. Implies that non classical music isn"t serious: possesses subtle qualities of expression, proportion, and balance, only sometimes, contains multiple levels of musical activity, again, only sometimes. Some music was "fairy opera" there was no emotional depth to the work - just fun with music: rewards intensely active listening. It can, and often does, but some doesn"t need to be listened to intensely bc you will not uncover deep layers of meaning: canon of classical music was written by european and russian composers between. 1700 and 1900: why between these dates, scales - tonal music. Modal system preceded it: cadences sound familiar with tonal structure, pleasing to the ear, 1900: tonality starts to collapse under its own experimental weight. Atonal music becomes popular: people do not gravitate towards atonal music, what is meant by the term canon, canon= universally acknowledged group of music.
