Music of the world chapter one

the characteristic sound of a particular place, both humnan and nonhuman

biophony, the combined voices of living things

biophony

meaning

the way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one gerneration to the next

a group's total involvement with music: ideas, institutions, material objects- everything that has to do with music

anything that can be heard

voice box

• get out your own cultural skin
• look at how people perceive differences between music and nonmusic

musical patterns

the patterned reoccurence of events

the time-relations among the sounds and find a pattern of regular reoccurence

simultaneous occurence of serveral rhythms with what we can perceive as shifting downbeat

the simultaneous presence of two different metrical systems

the part of a peice of music that goes up and down

referes to how high or low a sound is

tone quality

pitch, tone, timbre, emphasis

add decorative tones

distance between pitches

a part different from the melody

simultaneous sounding tones

helps describe how melody and harmony interact in various musics thoughout the world

• singing by yourself
• when several people sing the same melody in unison

when two or more voices elaborate the same melody in different ways at the same time

two or more distinct melodies are combined

the structure of a musical performance: the principles by which it is put together and how it works

the music power to move

that it moves along the basis of agreed-on rules and procedures

breaking music down into its component parts of mode, motif, melody, rhythm, meter, section and so forht, and determining how the parts operate together to make the whole

the rules of the cultures music

the group that carries on the traditions and norms, the social processes and activities, and the ideads of performance

communities where people come toget3her over common interests

• 1) people mark performances
• 2)has a purpose

• 1) music and the belief system
• 2) aesthetics
• 3) contexts
• 4) histoy

• 1) ideas about music
• 2) activities involving music
• 3) repertories of music
• 3) material culture of music

• 1)style
• 2) genres
• 3) texts
• 4) composition
• 5) transmission ( how it gets form one generation to the next, how is it shared)
• 6) movement ( physical activity with music)

sometimes governments intervene to support other kinds of music

changes in human culture

• 1) music that is so old and accept as "ours" that no one questions its origins
• 2) music of an earlier generation called old-fashion or classic
• 3) music that is most recent and marketed

worlds within worlds of music

a stock of music that is ready to be performed

everything related to the organization of musical sound itself: pitch elements, timbre elements, and sound intensity

the names standard units of repertory such as song and its various subdivisions or the many types of instrumental music and dance

the words to a song, lyrics

tha tangible objects that people in a culture produces- objects that can be seen held felt and used

mass-mediated

dynamic, static