MUSC 2248 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Acoustic Ecology, Sound Intensity
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Monday, august 22 nd and wednesday, august 24 th in-class notes: Music (definition)- humanly organized patterns of sound, other than speech, that communicates to the culture that produced it. Music is not a universal language but it is a universal phenomenon: Soundscape- the characteristic sounds of a particular place, both human and nonhuman. Acoustic ecology- each living thing that makes sound has its own niche; the combined voices of living things. Culture- the way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next. Music-culture- a group"s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, material objects- everything that has to do with music. Rhythm (in music) - a time-relation between sounds. Metrical rhythm- a pattern of regular recurrence between sounds in music. Polyrhythm- simultaneous of several rhythms with what is perceived to be a shifting downbeat. Polymeter- the simultaneous presence of two different metrical systems.
