MUSI20150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ethnomusicology, Health Promotion, Meaningful Life
2 Aug 2018
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Healthy environments, healthy relationship, experiences all sort of things shape us. The sum of more parts: good life, pleasant life, meaningful life leads to positive psychology, and having a good and healthy life. Wellbeing (measure good health: doing well - feeling good, doing good - feeling well. What is music: music as an object, score, cds, tapes, records, mp3s, players and devices, musical artefacts. An artifact may be defined as an object that has been intentionally made for some purpose : e. g. instrument, recordings you created, hold a representative state in our mind. Elements of music: elements of music, melody, rhythm, harmony, lysics, volume (loud/soft, pitch (high/low, tempo (speed, form (structure, timbre (texture) Christopher small (1927-2011: music educator, music sociologist, ethnomusicologist, choir conductor, scholar, music is an action (verb) not an object (noun) Musicking: being a part in any capacity in a musical performance. All of these contribute to the nature of the event.
