MUSICOL 139 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ethnocentrism, Monophony, Dhun

• School: U of M
• Department: Musicology
• Course: MUSICOL 139
• Professor: Christy-Anne Castro

Document Summary

The traditional hierarchy of western art music goes from the composer, to the. Performers (who are the interpreters and the middlemen ) to the listeners (who are the passive consumers) To "music is to take part, in any capacity, in a musical performance. Thinking about music we are hearing or remembering. With musiking, there is no social hierarchy, everyone is equally as important to the final output. Ethnocentrism is the belief that your life is more superior to other people"s" lives. The standards are not ideal and language reveals biases. Musiking challenges ethnocentrism in the sense that every person that is a process of the music making process is just as important as everyone else. Virtual, experienced time with musical elements; a symbol of subjective time. Different than regular subjective time because tensions and resolutions are musical ones. Musical and relative time is something that is felt - more perceptive.