Music’s Meaning
In Everyday Life

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Next Tuesday is ACT In Asheville Day
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You will be back in time to attend 1:45 classes
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We’re getting the MMPI results back then, and
afterwards we’ll be finished!
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Read Chapter 3 (Music and Meaning) and
listen to accompanying CDs

Announcements
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Listening Guide #1
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Choose a piece of music around 3 to 7 minutes long
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Include title, artist/composer, date of recording and/or
composition, instrumentation, meter, form
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Using the format in the text as a guide, chart out
musical descriptions (should take 1-2 pages, typed)
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Break up by sections in the form and/or phrases
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Describe musical elements for each (you can include lyrics,
but don’t focus on them)
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Include the time of the track
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Due Thursday, September 11

Music’s Meaning
In Everyday Life

Music can convey meaning
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Imitate or refer to other sounds
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Khoomii singer mimics sound of goat
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Don Quixote
by Richard Strauss imitates sheep
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Association of sound with a specific idea
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Leneen Bakk
rhythm used by a specific musical
family in Senegal
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The M.T.A. Song
about a political campaign
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Cultural association with specific music
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Talking drums mimic tonal Akan language

Music as Speech
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Makes for a powerful analogy
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Allows for musical “dialects”
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Good evidence that music evolved as an important
stage in the development of language
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Actual linkage of music to language is pretty
rare, though
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Still, it does manage to express something
that is hard to convey in words

Pinning down musical
meaning
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Sometimes meaning can change over
time
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Church hymns
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Jesus is All this World to Me
inspires Ray
Charles
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National anthems
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The Anaceontic Song

Indian Music
Divided into two


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- Music, Indian classical music, Bagpipes, Great Highland Bagpipe, Raag Dhani, Raga Nilimbari Araro