MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Turkish Tambur, Exoskeleton, Tonality
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Keyboards: piano, harpsicord, 2 manuals, controls volume, strings plucked, organ, king of instruments, pressurized air in pipes foot pedals, most now electric (tuning) Tone color (timbre: pronounced (tam-bur, distinctive characteristic of a son, range, material, playing technique, ex: bright, dark, mellow, piercing, warm, etc, example: stravinsky firebird part 2. Tonality: system of relationships between note and chords, centers music around one central note: the tonic, key (scale, major (happy, minor (sad) C. 500 a. d: philosophy, aristotle, plato, socrates, mythology. Music: relied on memory and improvisation, jazz, central to social functions, especially theatre, monophonic, one melody, no accompaniment, tetrachords, mixing of four chords. Epitaph of keikilos: c. 100 a. d, oldest surviving complete musical composition, tombstone inscription, text, while you live, shine, have no grief at all, life exists only for a short while. And time demands an end: man to his wife. Lyre: similar to harp, plucked with pic, made of animal shell, 7-10 strings.
