MUS 11 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Choirboy, Dixieland, Torah Reading
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Mus 11: the evolution of klezmer music (fall 2013) 3 exams (4th week, 8th week, final week) Listening and identification, fill in the blank, short answer, true or false, no multiple choice. Art music is music with known composers and writers. Lets say there is a concert with tickets on sale and when you sit down and arrive, the artists perform and play for you. The audience comes to the musicians to hear them play. We will hear songs that we know who wrote it. Folk music can be music for which we don"t or may not know the composer, it could be passed down from generations. You are at a wedding and you need music. You hire a band, and the musicians come to the wedding, the musicians come to the people. Both are for entertainment, but there is no other function than entertainment in art music. However, it does have biblical and religious roots.
