MUS 1751 Chapter : Chapter 1 2 Experiencing Music
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Music: the rational organization of sounds and silences passing through time. What is culture? one generation to the next. Social aspects: the way people act and organize communities. Intellectual aspects: webs of meaning to guide individuals and communities. A musical culture can be associated with a specific genre of music. Composed by individuals europeans and people of who identify with the. The roman catholic church- dominant spiritual center. Free flowing style creates a timeless, otherworldly sound. Melismatic singing: many notes sung to just one syllable of text. 12th century paris- first home of the new gothic polyphony centered at the. 1150-1400: the court- center for patronage of the arts. Ave maria (hail mary), 1485 soprano, tenor duplicates the melody. Most sacred form, the concept of all voices has been established- bass, alto, Poems about love; secular with non-latin text (vernacular) First began in italy and fast crept into germany. Center germany, south germany, then to france.
