MUSC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Melodiya, Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism
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Cultural relativism: each culture or subculture has its own specific values and standards that are application its standards and other activities, thus although music is universally human, it is not a universal language. Ethnomusicology: ethnomusicology is a field that joins the study of music with the concerns of anthropology(study of humanity,society and culture). (shelemay,2006, ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture. (merriam, 1964) > sound, exists only as you hear it, but is fairly stable. > setting is probably the most variable and easily chained. >setting, however, has a lot to do with significance when one changes, the other usually does too. >culturally and temporally created (changes over time and context) Basic elements of music: pitch- a frequency as musical . > a440 is arbitrary; tempered tuning is just what we happen to use in the west at this point in time, many tuning system exist and have existed.
