CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Baby Talk, X.Org Server, Intp
27 Jan 2017
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The fundamental characteristic of popular music: standardization. The whole structure of popular music is standardized, even where the attempt is made to circumvent standardization. Most important of all, the harmonic cornerstones of each hit, the beginning and the end of each part must beat out the standard scheme. The primary effect of this relation between the framework and the detail is that the listener becomes prone to evince stronger reactions to the part than to the whole. The whole is pre-given and pre-accepted, even before the actual experience of the music starts; therefore, it is not likely to influence, to any extent, the reaction to the details, except to give them varying degrees of emphasis. For serious music, every detail derives its musical sense from the concrete totality of the piece which, in turn, consists of the life relationship of the details and never of a mere enforcement of a musical scheme.
