Understanding Music: Representation, Expression, and Evocation

1. The “statue of David” is a sculpture. This is considered a ______? • Performance art • Abstract art • Plastic art

2. what is performance Art? • The use of tools to create a beautiful artwork. • An experience of beauty in a natural setting. • When artists use their voice or body to create an artwork

3. What is it called when an artwork tries to look like or recreate something from the real world • Expressive • Evoking • Representational

4. What is it called when an artwork tries to get an emotional response from the audience, trying to make the person feel something. • Expressive • Evoking • Representational

5. What is it called when an Artist creates an artwork to show an audience what the artist is feeling or thinking. • Expressive • Evoking • Representational

6. Music

7. Music: • Music is the organization of sound and time. -Elliott Schwartz (composer) • Music is organized sound - EdgardVarèse • “Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music” (Berio, Dalmonte, and Varga) • Music is the universal language 

8. Music: • Music is near universal phenomena, with almost all cultures practicing some form of music • Music may be: -representational -expressive -evocative

9. Music as Representation • Music is often meant to re-present or take things that are real and put them into sound: -dramatic stories -conflicts -natural sounds (thunderstorms, wind, rain, etc) -represent the mood of a place or event

10. Music as Expression • Music that is meant to share the thoughts and feelings of the composer with the audience/listener -often very emotional music, -can also be cognitive (sharing of thoughts through music not words) • Often meant to reflect the composer as a person

11. Music meant to evoke • Evoke means “audience response” or “listener reaction” • Music can affect the listener in 3 ways -to encourage imagination -to create feelings-new unnamed experience -to create emotions-recognized, and named feeling-states -to create a mood/atmosphere/mental state • The audience response to the music does not have to relate to what the composer intended. -the composer may be happy, but the music is sad

12. Music and Noise What is the difference between music and noise? -pleasing/unpleasant, agreeable/disagreeable, like/dislike -role of time -role of organization (either by listener or composer) -ex. Making music out of sounds on the street. -preview Nine inch Nails

13. Basic Elements of Music • Pitch-how high or low a sound is • Tone-The shape of the pitch, what it sounds like • Dynamics (how loud) • Duration-how long it lasts • Rhythm-the repetition or arrangement of musical elements

14. Music Terms: Note- the pitch or frequency of a sound, Western music uses A-G to indicate how high or low a relative sound is. Interval- The amount of difference in pitch between to sounds. Often based on math, equal distance between A, A#,A-, etc Harmony- The ability of specific notes to vibrate together Dissonance- 2 or more notes that do not make harmony. Chord- 2 or more notes that combine to make a pitch. Singing-using the voice to produce notes Scale-a pattern of notes that have precise intervals and can be played in harmony with chords.

15. Music Terms: Raga-(indian music scale) a series of notes that does not have precise intervals but stays in harmony with other instruments Key- indicates the scale being used to play, Key’s often relate to simple notes, the most popular being the Key of C (major or minor)

16. Music Genres • Classical –Western • Ethnic-relates to many various cultures around the world • Popular (Dance, Rock, Rap, Electronic, R&B, Reggae, etc) • Folk music-historical and traditional popular music of lower classes • Time period • Jazz • Opera • Musical

17. Questions • What is your idea of music? • Should music be morally and socially responsible? • What do you consider to be good music? What is different about good and bad music • Should we judge the quality of music based on its formal qualities, or our personal judgment. • Does music have to be beautiful/pleasant to be enjoyable or even useful?