MU 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High Culture, Strophic Form

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Music
• Course: MU 150
• Professor: Schuttenhelm, T

Document Summary

Formal analysis: listening for musical structure, its fundamentals, and the cohesion . complemented by musical process. Timbre: the texture/quality of the music: sound print aka signature sound. Chorus: a repeated melody with fixed text inserted between verses. When one uses the same music again, they are in strophic form: strophic is basic sound form. Identity: forming the subjective: becoming more complete through music. Class (dialect): addresses concerns of certain demographics (i. e hip hop: evokes stereotypes using codes stereotypes appeal to sense of universality . nationality. Technology: role in production and consumption of music creates and disseminates. Business: formulates and perpetuates: this cycles: origination, peak, plateau, decline, extinction, capitalism and commercialism. High culture vs low culture: music is a part of low culture for accessibility.