According to The World of Music by David Willoughby music is sounds that you want to hear as music. It also states that music serves different purposes: to entertain, to uplift, to stimulate feelings and responses and to enhance certain rituals. Throughout this course Music 1301 I have listen to many different styles and formats of music. There have been many different styles that I have listen to that have done this for me, and I will list and compare some for this paper.…
The six broad categories include string (guitar and violin), percussion (bass drum, cymbals), woodwind (flute, clarinet), keyboard (organ, piano), brass (trumpet, trombone), and electronics (synthesizer).…
|Objectives |Develop an understanding of various musical elements such as tonality, texture, melody, |Sept 5 | |…
Throughout the piece I would say that the rhythm was pretty regular. Even though the tempo or rhythm would sometimes dip down, it would only be for a second and then become the more up beet rhythm like the rest of the song. Songs that are more regular in rhythm are catchy and more peaceful in a way. I guess the best way to describe it would be that it flows very nicely together and seems balances.…
How do the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea use their knowledge of the world around them to create a systematic music theory?…
Syncopation involves placing emphasis on normally un-emphasized beats or using a rest on a normally emphasized beat.…
3. Timbre is the tone that an instrument or a group of instruments is making. It usually determines what instrument is being played. Timbre is created due to the overtones generated by a specific instrument.…
"Asian Culture : Subject : Australian Music Centre." Australian Music Centre | Breaking Sound Barriers. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2017.…
1. Music and gender among the temiar of Malaysia: their musical traditions emphasize balance of males and females.…
2. Rhythm (The Time): The organization of beats or pulses in time. Rhythm is the ordering of music through time. Not all music has a melody, but all music has rhythm. A drum solo, for example, makes its effect primarily through rhythm. Rhythm can operate on many levels, from a repetitive, underlying pulse or beat to rapidly changing patterns of longer and shorter periods.…
Music instruments such as cymbals, raucous double reeds, deep trumpets, and deep-voiced chants make the atmosphere in the performance of the music in Tibet. The atmosphere can be very intense and powerful. The chants are tone-contour melodies that include both split-tones and multiphonic singing which is one of the most iconic characteristic of music in Tibet. Continuous fluctuations in pitch, volume, and timbre is also common where in the Western world we do not really hear that as a melody. The multiphonic type of singing…
Traditional Armenian music is made up of folk melodies performed at social gatherings, celebrations, and religious ceremonies. Instruments such as the tar, a short necked lute, karmancha, an upright fiddle and davul, a double headed hand drum symbolize the Armenian style of folk music (Broughton,…
The musical tradition of Northern Indian Hindustani music is built on different conceptions of musical components than our traditional Western music. Notation of this music is a relatively new endeavor, starting in the 1900’s. Previously the music culture was a tradition passed down orally from a guru or a shishya. The notation of the music today is known a relatively non-standardized process with more emphasis on interval relations than on actual pitches. For example there is no concept of a “440 A” within traditional Hindustani music, rather, they rely on thaats.…
“Already almost breaking the bounds of absolute music, it stems the tumult of the other instruments with its virile eloquence, pressing toward decision, and passes at last into song-like theme.”[4]…
Syncopation is when you interrupt the expected beat and lots of different types of music use it like Ska, jazz, and metal.…