MUS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Inflection, Castrato, Virtuosity
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Mus 4 lecture 1 - monday, september 26, 2016: genre. Genre as a contract of the kind of content you expect in a work of art, literature, music, or other categories. Ex: telephone book, sci-fi movie, novel, western classical music (wcm) Western classical music (wcm) genres: symphony, opera, concerto, sonata, chants, motets, cantatas, etc. Non-wc< genres: musical, jazz: but wcm influences and is influenced by them. Borderline wcm genres: rock opera, songs of gershwin. Pop genres: hip-hop, sentimental ballads, r&b (rhythm and blues) Other musical genres: flamenco, rumba, guqin, music, etc. Importance: knowing the generic expectation when expectation is off: either it"s bad or the composer or performer is giving you a surprise: beyond genre: form and heightened emotions form = identifying recurring themes e. g. long long ago. Ballade (genre): originally in literature, narrative poem that tells a story. Free form: no specific pattern of recurrence (?) just following the story in the music.
