Five Propositions for Exploring World Music
Music 407
Chapter 1:
What is world music?
A Point of Departure:
Five Propositions for Exploring World Music
1. The basic property of all music is SOUND * Tone – the duration (length), frequency (pitch), amplitude (loudness), timbre (quality of sound). * All sounds have the potential to be tones
2. The sounds (and silences) that comprise a musical work organized in some way * Music is a form of organized sound * Listening: CD 1:1 (Beethoven’s Symphony #9) & CD 1:2 (Japanese gagaku) 3. Sounds are organized into music by people thus; music is a form of humanly organized sound * Music is a human phenomenon * Human creation vs. sounds found in nature
4. Music is a product of human intention and perception * HIP: human intention and perception * Music is inseparable from the people who make and experience it. 5. The term music is inescapably tied to western culture and its assumption * Music is a category of humanly organized sound that takes its core identity from the musical intentions and perceptions of its makers and listeners. * Many cultures do not categorize their own “music” as music at all * Eth
Identity in music * Music can partially answer: * Who am I? * Who are we? * Listening: * Mongolian singing performance CD 1:5 * Note: nomads, string instrument, other sounds created by voice * Central Javanese gamelan orchestra CD 1:6 * Note: chimes/bells, groups of voices… all boys… from Java music of the courts (King). In this culture the entire community comes together to create its own music. * Amerindian Music – Rabbit Dance song CD 1:7, CD 1:8 * Note: American/Indians. Drums – made from natural resources.
Societies * Society may be define as a group of persons regarded as forming a single community * Share a connection through one another through other things Social institutions in music * An example of social
Chapter 1:
What is world music?
A Point of Departure:
Five Propositions for Exploring World Music
1. The basic property of all music is SOUND * Tone – the duration (length), frequency (pitch), amplitude (loudness), timbre (quality of sound). * All sounds have the potential to be tones
2. The sounds (and silences) that comprise a musical work organized in some way * Music is a form of organized sound * Listening: CD 1:1 (Beethoven’s Symphony #9) & CD 1:2 (Japanese gagaku) 3. Sounds are organized into music by people thus; music is a form of humanly organized sound * Music is a human phenomenon * Human creation vs. sounds found in nature
4. Music is a product of human intention and perception * HIP: human intention and perception * Music is inseparable from the people who make and experience it. 5. The term music is inescapably tied to western culture and its assumption * Music is a category of humanly organized sound that takes its core identity from the musical intentions and perceptions of its makers and listeners. * Many cultures do not categorize their own “music” as music at all * Eth
Identity in music * Music can partially answer: * Who am I? * Who are we? * Listening: * Mongolian singing performance CD 1:5 * Note: nomads, string instrument, other sounds created by voice * Central Javanese gamelan orchestra CD 1:6 * Note: chimes/bells, groups of voices… all boys… from Java music of the courts (King). In this culture the entire community comes together to create its own music. * Amerindian Music – Rabbit Dance song CD 1:7, CD 1:8 * Note: American/Indians. Drums – made from natural resources.
Societies * Society may be define as a group of persons regarded as forming a single community * Share a connection through one another through other things Social institutions in music * An example of social