MUS 102(General Musicology)
excerpts from ReHearsal House Programme 1 lesson notes.
WHAT IS MUSIC
According to the RH Philosophy of music, music is the most sublime blending of sounds, in a manner that pleases the ear-tickles its admiration; entertains by muse, feeds love, feeds the soul and glorifies God. Now to expound further on this definition, lets pick the high points of the definition.
THE MOST SUBLIME BLENDING OF SOUNDS
It begins with sounds, various levels(called frequencies) of sounds exist; but only sounds that can be detected by the human ears are recognized as 'sounds', there are sounds which cannot be detected by the human ears.
Now for the sounds detected by the ear, we may rightly summarize them into: d r m f s l t
Others exist of course, but may be found just between any two of these 7 notes. Now Music firstly must involve mixtures of notes (i.e 'blending' any two or more notes), even a single note may be blended in certain forms to make up music, for instance
d d m m r d f m r m l t...
Now for the blending of sounds there are a couple of ideas that must be in place, what is the time value or beats for instance, d d m m r d... may be fast, moderate or slow; very fast, moderately fast, or moderately slow, e.t.c.
Before a composer,or musical sound interpreter should say ''we have a musical sound mix'', the first consideration ought to be, IS THIS THE MOST SUBLIME MIX POSSIBLE?
our next discussion on RH's MUS 102(General Musicology) would center on considering the most sublime mix...
also see SOL 110(Solmization and sound mastery)
excerpts from ReHearsal House Programme 1 lesson notes.
WHAT IS MUSIC
According to the RH Philosophy of music, music is the most sublime blending of sounds, in a manner that pleases the ear-tickles its admiration; entertains by muse, feeds love, feeds the soul and glorifies God. Now to expound further on this definition, lets pick the high points of the definition.
THE MOST SUBLIME BLENDING OF SOUNDS
It begins with sounds, various levels(called frequencies) of sounds exist; but only sounds that can be detected by the human ears are recognized as 'sounds', there are sounds which cannot be detected by the human ears.
Now for the sounds detected by the ear, we may rightly summarize them into: d r m f s l t
Others exist of course, but may be found just between any two of these 7 notes. Now Music firstly must involve mixtures of notes (i.e 'blending' any two or more notes), even a single note may be blended in certain forms to make up music, for instance
d d m m r d f m r m l t...
Now for the blending of sounds there are a couple of ideas that must be in place, what is the time value or beats for instance, d d m m r d... may be fast, moderate or slow; very fast, moderately fast, or moderately slow, e.t.c.
Before a composer,or musical sound interpreter should say ''we have a musical sound mix'', the first consideration ought to be, IS THIS THE MOST SUBLIME MIX POSSIBLE?
our next discussion on RH's MUS 102(General Musicology) would center on considering the most sublime mix...
also see SOL 110(Solmization and sound mastery)
