MUS 1751 Chapter : 1 Mus Ch 1
Document Summary
Copeland"s ways of listening to music: sensual passively listening, expressively interoperates, dancing, cartoon, applying meaning, musical attention on actual music itself, understanding music for music"s sake. Hearing how will knowledge help you: understand behind the scenes, picking out different instruments and their roles. Sound: sounds vibration produce electrochemical responses, rational organization of sounds and silences, neurons identify sound by pitch, color, etc, midsection of brain determines emotional response, results in increased levels of dopamine. Sounds and technology: principals of acoustics are invariable (haven"t changed, methods of transmitting, capturing, and preserving sound has varied, oral tradition, written notation began around 900 c. e, edison"s phonograph (1877) most significant development, digital technology in the 1990s. Attending a concert of classical music: preparation, develop familiarity with music, learn history of composer, composition, best sound quality near the back of first balcony, the conductor gesture indicate important musical events.
