VPMA93H3 Lecture 2: Assignment Lecture 2.docx
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Music is like talking, but with traffic, sound is acting -> activity of sound gets louder and quieter, higher and lower, longer and shorter -> don"t need sound to talk to us. Marcelle duchant began thinking of music as being not a time art but a space art and he made sculpture musicale -> different sounds coming from different places and lasting and producing a sculpture that still remains. Philosopher says music and laughter don"t have to mean anything to give us pleasure. We listen to music on three planes: Sensuous plane: sound element at this level is a powerful as well as mysterious agent many music lovers only listen to this level (concerts to lose themselves) music as a consolation or as escape. Sheerly musical plane: at this level, listener attends to matters of form and structure in order to follow the line of a composer"s thought, the listener attends to melody, rhythm,
