MUL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Music Genre, Pulse 2, Heterophony
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Lecture 2: musical elephants - listening and organization. The 6 ws of music (who, what, when, where, why & how) What, who, when & where = musical context (facts) How = musical organization (how it"s musically organized) Listening: passive just hearing, not engaged listening, active - focused listening, entails effort, concentration, patience, and practice, requires recognition and identification of specific musical elements ( musical elephants ) 2 tempo: regular/slow to medium instruments: jazz combo [acoustic guitar, bass, drums, piano, sax] 2 (how) musical elephants : rhythm, beat grouping: duple, tonality, voices/language: male, female/portuguese, english, dynamics: steady, melody: pop standard, texture - homophonic, density building density, form: repeating aaba (tin pan alley melodic form) Musical context (what) title: girl from ipanema : style: combination of brazillian pop and american jazz, genre: bossa nova (who), stan getz tenor saxophone, astrud gilberto vocals (where): new jersey (when): 1966, cultural context (why, experimentation/commercial project.
