Provoking Emotion with Cultivated and Vernacular Music
Music has been a way for humans to express ourselves for centuries. Not only do we use music to express a feeling or tell a tale; we also use it to provoke emotion from the audience. Music is not always presented in a formal way and nowadays it is very informal, but it is still meant to move you. Whether it be to tears or panic because of an orchestra is simulating panicked running through music, or if it is to incite disenfranchised youth to join in mosh pits from guitar solos. Cultivated music is world renowned and respected by older generations because it was taught in formal capacities. Vernacular music is also world renowned and respected on every level of the totem pole because it is not so formal in nature and you can come as you are and take what you want from it. I think that musical …show more content…
This genre of music does not intrigue me as much as it should with my background in ballet dancing, but how it plays on emotions throughout the piece cannot be ignored. One in particular is at 3’57” when the dancers start to celebrate the arrival of spring. I liked how the dynamics of the song matched up with the dancing. Different sections of the orchestra gave each dancing group their own music while simultaneously making one sound. The tempo changes to depict the running of the old woman in the middle and it changes throughout the ballet to emphasize certain aspects. The mood starts to shift to despair and panic at 32’09” once the girl continues to dance to her death. I could actually feel myself becoming sad for her. She is falling and beating at the ground in anguish as the orchestra builds more tension until the girl finally collapses and dies, then the music abruptly ends. It astonishes me that a musical piece that lacked words actually sung a song of joy, fear, pain, and more ranges of emotion than many of the songs of
Music has been a way for humans to express ourselves for centuries. Not only do we use music to express a feeling or tell a tale; we also use it to provoke emotion from the audience. Music is not always presented in a formal way and nowadays it is very informal, but it is still meant to move you. Whether it be to tears or panic because of an orchestra is simulating panicked running through music, or if it is to incite disenfranchised youth to join in mosh pits from guitar solos. Cultivated music is world renowned and respected by older generations because it was taught in formal capacities. Vernacular music is also world renowned and respected on every level of the totem pole because it is not so formal in nature and you can come as you are and take what you want from it. I think that musical …show more content…
This genre of music does not intrigue me as much as it should with my background in ballet dancing, but how it plays on emotions throughout the piece cannot be ignored. One in particular is at 3’57” when the dancers start to celebrate the arrival of spring. I liked how the dynamics of the song matched up with the dancing. Different sections of the orchestra gave each dancing group their own music while simultaneously making one sound. The tempo changes to depict the running of the old woman in the middle and it changes throughout the ballet to emphasize certain aspects. The mood starts to shift to despair and panic at 32’09” once the girl continues to dance to her death. I could actually feel myself becoming sad for her. She is falling and beating at the ground in anguish as the orchestra builds more tension until the girl finally collapses and dies, then the music abruptly ends. It astonishes me that a musical piece that lacked words actually sung a song of joy, fear, pain, and more ranges of emotion than many of the songs of