The Sound of Music

Your groove: perhaps how music makes you feel, how it stimulates your body with the beat of a drum or the riff of a guitar. My groove: on the same level as your groove, only it goes just a bit further than just the feel. A machinist’s groove: the point at which a tool does work. We all see groove differently, figuratively and technically. We’ll be focusing on grooves that match up, your’s and mine, and how we’ll see that groove is more than just feelings. We’ll be exploring groove’s historically…

1950s as part of America’s counter culture, rock music swiftly rose in popularity with an appeal to youth, vitality, and revolt. Rock revolutionized music and spread it across cultures to involve anyone willing to listen, going beyond the artful form of music that had previously been reserved for the upper class. Music has taken many different forms over the years, created new factions, new sounds, but the undisputed claim to fame today as far as music is concerned lies with the genre of rock…

Teitz Mrs. Brochu American Studies F/G 5 February, 2016 Bassed on a True Story Ever since the 4th century, music has been at the root of almost all cultures. It began with the chants of the Gregorian Monks, which were monophonic, meaning there was no harmony or accompaniment. These were choral pieces used strictly for religious services. As music spread throughout the world, polyphonic sounds, which were more complex intertwining melodies and background parts, were developed, and new instruments…

to 20kHz (20,000Hz). Hearing and sound plays a very important role in our lives. It allows us to communicate with each other. Music helps us express our feelings and share our cultures with the whole world. Sound allows us to hear, react to fear, and to hear different kinds of music. Sound is a form of energy, like light or heat (Seller, 3). Sound is produced by vibrating objects. When an object vibrates, the surrounding air moves back and forth as well. Sound travels in all directions until…

The importance of secular music during Renaissance can be illustrate form the competition of the nobilities mentioned above. As music is the main leisure activities, just like we show off our luxuries, the nobilities compete with each other for the best quality of the luxuriously leisure activities. This helps to maintain the important role of the music, and even helps music to prosperous. Moreover, the Renaissance ideal of being " universal man" result…

How to Listen to Music We all listen to music based on our separate capacities, this is different with each person. Listening to music means perceiving and understanding what happens in the music, you are listening in an active sort of way. The technique will be similar in each individual no matter what type of music they are listening to. They have so many different ways was to listen to music some start with listening to the first sentence or skipping through the song to listen inattentively.…

the transformations of music over the years. I have gained a lot more knowledge about the ethics of music and how technology has opened doors for artists and how it has affected the music world for both listeners and the artists themselves. For my response journal this week, I would like to discuss two important areas from the chapters of the book, ‘Capturing Sound’ by Mark Katz that I found really intriguing. One area would be about digital sampling and how it has allowed music to be expressed…

looking at a single composer and a chosen piece of work. The musical idea I chose to be electronic music, as I feel in this current musical era, its is incredibly popular and so wanted to have a look into its roots and someone who impacted the growth and style - Pierre Schaeffer. This composer had his very own particular outlook on the concept of formation within musical structures concerning electronic music especially his composition Phonogene. French artist and acoustician, Pierre Schaeffer…

of nationality in music. Ever since the days of the early Classical Period, musical styles, forms, and languages were largely influenced by traditional standards of Austria and Germany. However, around the middle of the 19th century, composers from many other countries around the world began trying to establish distinctive national styles that represented their own nation by using traditional forms of dance, folk songs and history. Many expressionist composers based their music on nationalism…

Concurrently in music, composers like Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg, were re-exploring the compositional process, resulting in the development of the twelve-tone method. This new method of composition was Arnold Schoenberg’s attempt to eliminate the conscious will in art and finding a new common language to replace tonality. These explorations led to various methods of composition that included ordered and unordered rows of pitches of various lengths that could manifest as an inversion,…