Music Appretiation Notes 8 31 Notes for Exam 1 Listening to Music Planes Expressive Plane How What are we listening responding to the music Deals with the emotional aspect of listening to music Sensuous Plane Consciously hearing and actively listening for musical textures or details Listeners experience the music directly like in a concert Musical Plane Listener attends to these three details of the elements 1 Repetition 2 Variation 3 Contrast A Kassabian to ambient music Introduced the idea of Ubiquitous Listening as an active response o We are nodes in a distributed subjectivity T Adorno Introduced the idea of Structural Listening Music that follows a o Aaron Copland favored Musical Listening over the other two types form Voices Can have multiple ranges such as pitch for example baritone bass tenor alto soprano etc Soprano voices have the highest pitch while bass singes have the lowest pitch with alto singers picking up the middle pitches between the two major groups Choirs Choruses Both utilize vocal ensembles in their music Chorus Choir Typically a smaller group of singers than choruses Typically a larger group of singers than a choir Ensembles Orchestra instruments Orchestras typically consist of A larger group of diverse instruments Typically includes string o Strings violins violas cellos bass etc o Woodwinds saxophones flutes oboes clarinets etc o Brass trumpets tubas trombones horns etc o Percussion drums xylophone tympani cymbals etc A smaller group utilizes mostly wind or brass instruments but as may Band strings If any at all of music o Concert Band Performs indoors typically and plays more classical genres o Marching Band Performs outdoors typically and plays more modern rather celebratory music Genre How does what we perform appear o Habits Can be a key part of cultural interaction o Repeated patterns of behavior o Shapes Our Identity How we present ourselves o Shapes Our Ideology Congregate with others and share our beliefs ideas Habitual Social Music Social interaction with featuring music o Is typically repeated to recreate the initial experience Vocabulary Genre A style of music that changes due to the types of instruments being played as well as the occasion Form How music is organized An example of genre changes based on occasion and instruments used Song Style The way the music song is presented to the audience using distinctive features Like articulations instrument choices dynamics and rhythms 2 o Can be known as the manner of performance 3