Experiencing music

Role of a Critic

• responsible critic will do more than just condemn or praise a preformance.
• offer convincing arguments to substantiante his or her claims.
• Must be able to analyze what they hear so they can communicate their opinions rationally and coherently.
• good critic take in account the nonmusical aspects of preformance.

Developing critical skills

Language of criticism

• Range from scorn to praise.
• Colorful language, descriptive nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
• Words help explain points of view and back up claims.
• Aesthetic: concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty OR a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

Call and response

Call and response is a form of "spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements ('calls') are punctuated by expressions ('responses') from the listener."

Ensemble

• developing your ability to identify various levels of listening helps you appreciate the music you are listening to.
• comparing the experience of listening to music alone vs. with other people.

• an ensemble is a cooperative musical expression. Made up of several different musicians.

Criteria

Mariachi Tradition

• Each of us entitled to our own ikes and dislikes.
• Opinions not sufficient in judging a work or genre.
• Music should be judged by its merits.
• Basis of every judgement is critique: Timbre, Expressiveness, Technique, Presentation, Impact.

Performing music together

• From mexican state of Jalisco.
• Musical group with several violins, trumpets, large bass guitar, and special five to six string guitars.
• Five string rhythym guitar called vihuela.
• Popular types of mariachi music: Jalisciense and cancion.

• texture is the way sounds are woven together.
• an ensemble is a cooperative musical expression. Made up of several different musicians.
• Monophonic means in unison with everyone sounding the same pitch or octave at the same time.

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Becoming a perceptive listener

• Perceptive listening relies on knowledge of music.
• ex: melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, texture, form
• The more you know the easier the music is to understand.

Levels of listening

Together

• The different levels of attentiveness that impact how we listen to music.
• example: how do you listen to elevator music? casual or perceptively?
• How absorbed you are in the music you are listening to.
• Aural: of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing.

• Hearing live music is exciting.
• music used to put you in a certain mood or invoke a certain action.

Perceptive

• listening and appreciating a musical work for it full range of technical and expressive properties.
• Analytical
• increases our understanding of music.

Performing music alone

• A way to express one's feelings
• Artistic expression
• enjoy the intensity of focusing on one timbre and one pitch at a time.
• the person playing becomes his/her own audience

Alone

How we experience listening

• Our choices usually depend on our mood
• casual listening, not listening perceptively.
• usually using headphones
• create an atmosphere.

• One of most popular ways to experience music is through headphones/ ear buds
• Sometimes very moving
• Music helps us shut out the world

Flute Music

• A common instrumnt in many cultures throughout the world.
• Can be made from natural materials.
• Melodic instrument widely used by native americans.
• Native american flute playing nearly extinct.

Experiencing music

By: Allison Jeing