MUS-1000 : Test1notes
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Listening to music: physical reaction to a disturbance in our environment. Machine creats vibration creates sound waves processed by inner ear converted to electrical signals transported by neurons primary auditory cortex in center of brain increased dopamine mood enhancement. Low pitched sounds vibrate slowly, high pitched sounds vibrate rapidly. Musical sounds tend to be regular in vibration. Acoustics remain the same but the means of capturing and preserving sound have been constantly evolving. Up until about 900 ce most music was passed orally. Around this time 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 went by, the written music or scores became more elaborate with tempo (how fast) markings and dynamic (how loud/soft) markings. The nineteenth century marks the advent of playback technology with the invention of the phonograph by thomas edison (1877).
