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Early History |
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Western music notation has developed over two and a half
thousand years of civilisation. The ancient Greeks,
and later the Romans, used letters
of the alphabet to indicate different pitches |
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Musical Regions |
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Each culture has
its own music, and the classical, folk, and
popular traditions of a region are usually closely
related and easily recognized as part of one
system |
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Music & Cultural Definition |
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Music, the organized movement of sounds through a continuum of
time. Music plays a role in all societies, and it exists in a large number
of styles, each characteristic of a geographical region or a historical
era. |
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Music As A Cultural System |
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Music has many
uses, and in all societies certain events are
inconceivable without it |
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The Sound Of Music |
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In the simplest
terms music can be described as the juxtaposition
of two elements that involve pitch and duration
and that are usually called melody and rhythm |
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Melody |
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In any musical
system, the creation of melody involves selecting
tones from a prescribed set called a scale, which
is actually a group of pitches separated by
specific intervals (the distances in pitch between
tones) |
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Rhythm |
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The handling of
time in music is expressed through concepts such
as the lengths of notes and the interrelationships
among them; relative degrees of emphasis on
different tones; and, in particular, meter |
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Other Elements |
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The organization
given to simultaneously produced pitches is also
of great importance |
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The Creation Of Music |
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Music is created by
individuals, using a traditional vocabulary of
musical elements |
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The Social Role & Function Of Music |
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Music everywhere is
used to accompany other activities |
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The Musician
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In most of the world's societies, musicianship
requires talent, special knowledge or training,
and effort, and the view is widespread that a
successful musical work or performance is
difficult to achieve |
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