Musicology

In the podcast “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?” Steve Muncher interviews David Huron in order to find out why music has such a strong effect on people. Through a series of questions he figures out that this phenomenon is possible because the music manipulates the brain into feeling like it has been through a hard time. The podcast also contributed to my understanding of music on people and myself. Mencher interviews David Huron who is a “Professor music and head of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory in the School of Music.” He is also a part of Ohio State University’s Center for Cognitive Science. He was not only picked to give the information his team has discovered because of his workings with the school. He is also the author of Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. In the beginning of the interview Mencher…

Musicology: Students study John William’s musical works through scores, interviews and films, understand composer’s perspective on composing music and the importance of music for these media. Watch the documentary “Star Wars Music by John Williams” over two periods and discuss the contents of the documentary and how composer collected and produced sound and demonstrated the film through music. Students will participate in class discussion and discuss the concepts of music such as structure,…

creation but also in the performing process: the knowledge and skills of the various actors contribute to the performance advancement. Thus, in order to develop student’s musical expression as much as their musical knowledge, music teachers (in all levels of teaching ) have to put them in contact with all these dimensions, and make them grasp the idea that a musical production doesn’t lies solely on sheet music, but express itself through a tremendous amount of modalities. Is an Applied…

Taylor Swifts new music is on YouTube. So you think of it as teachable material for your classroom? Probably not. But for some visionary teachers, pop culture is a useful tool that can help get students interested and engaged in learning, and some can offer resources for better understanding of certain musicology topics of interest. As music educators we are constantly re-evaluating our teaching approaches and techniques to find innovative ways to incorporate technology and how to engage…

thesis proved correct and supported well. Robin’s Sylvans purpose in this book appears to be to prove that contemporary western music should considered more often in the study of musicology because it greatly embodies the spirituality in today’s western cultures. Through the process he used to prove his thesis, described previously, he achieves this goal. What makes Traces of the spirit different from other books who have made this argument is the diversity in the material being discussed.…

A remarkable book chronicling an understudied period in Cuban history, “Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940”, by Robin D. Moore is an intriguing study of Cuban popular music in the twentieth century. Moore dissects and explains how the music which is often associated with Cuba was considered at one time riffraff and lewd because of its African influence, origins and associations compared to the more sophisticated music of Europeans. Between 1920…

conclusion, it is suggested that the frenzied expansion of the mass media has political consequences which are not so wholly negative. The invasive impact of these new technologies provides a basis for the production of new meanings and new cultural expressions. The reason why postmodernism appeals to a wider number of young people who are also labelled as the new generation of intellectuals is because they themselves are experiencing the enforced fragmentation of impermanent work and low career…

His experiences as a Soviet musicologist allows for a fuller picture of how he and other Soviet scholars utilized Marxism as a motivation for other scholarly achievements. Zemtsovsky also discusses the difficulty of being subjective in his work in an ideologically driven society. He discusses his connection to the sociological approach to music as an art more so than an economic analysis, which places musicology as the study of art as a commodity (181). In “Making Marxist-Leninist Music in…

talented enough to strum each of its fifteen strings. Dowland’s music as a whole contains a melancholy, but also uplifting mood. The music almost sounds similar to Baroque opera in regard to the low pitch and the use of multiple pauses and dragging of the lyrics. In addition to categorizing Dowland’s music as pop music, Sting claims that Dowland’s pieces have an economic feeling to them. According to Sting, economic music means a very organized and spare approach to the dynamics of each work.…

Whether it is realized or not, music is a very prevalent tool in the American society. From commercial jingles to songs about love, music can be used to mirror the ideals of a culture and provide insight to specific, recurring themes throughout history. “…Comparative musicology, which is the study of musical styles and systems from different societies, an integral part of general musicology; and musical anthropology, the study of the role music plays in human societies, an integral part of…