MUS111H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Strophic Form, Ostinato, Xylophone
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Vpma93 lecture 1 introduction to listening and sound. If we weren"t a highly sophisticated audience, then musicians can"t write music. 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. Eg, happy birthday , we know the next note even if we never heard the song b/c of the pattern. 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.
