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Music: Why Bother? - Exploring the Significance of Music in Aesthetics, Identity, Culture, and History

Dive into the intriguing world of music through the lens of aesthetics, identity, culture, and history. Discover the universal language of music and its power to evoke emotions and shape our understanding of the past. Uncover how music influences our identities and offers aesthetic experiences that transcend time.

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Music: Why Bother? - Exploring the Significance of Music in Aesthetics, Identity, Culture, and History

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  1. MU111 Music, Why Bother? (Please sit in front 5 rows & take syllabus and a clicker)

  2. Gabriel Faure: Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major Op. 63

  3. I voluntarily listen to more than 20 minutes of classical music/week: • A. No • B. Yes

  4. Music: Why bother?

  5. LB link

  6. Music:Why bother? Reason #1(the obvious one) to bother: Music offers aesthetic experiences:

  7. Reason #2

  8. Why to bother #2: We construct our identities through music

  9. Three Big Questions How do people listen to and respond aesthetically to music? II. Music: Is it a universal language? What does music (even music without words) mean? How is musical meaning communicated?

  10. How do people listen/respond to music? A. 2 Modes of Listening Immersive (sensual) (A) 2. Analytical (B) B. Music as Aesthetic Object AND Abstract Pattern in Sound C. A Structural/Analytical Hearing: Pachelbel Kanon 1. Ground Bass or Ostinato Bass 2. Canon

  11. Reason #3: Music has the formal/structural elegance of mathematics

  12. II. Music, The Universal Language? • Music is a universal language. • Agree • Disagree • Heroic, Valiant • Soothing, Cheerful • Sad, Mournful • D. Funny, Farcial

  13. II. Music, The Universal Language? Responses not innate or universal but learned (culturally contingent) Reason #4: Music is linked intimately to CULTURE Thinking about the past tells you about music Thinking about music tells you about the past Reason #5: Music is linked intimately to HISTORY • Heroic, Valiant • Soothing, Cheerful • Sad, Mournful • D. Funny, Farcial

  14. III. What/How does Music “Mean” • Music is a language of the emotions; one of its • principal effects is to move listeners emotionally. • Agree • Disagree Formalist B. Referentialist C. Expressionist

  15. Why Bother with Music? • 1 Music offers aesthetic experience--powerful ways to • experience the world (art--think “Corelli’s Mandolin”) • 2 Part of what we are & how we construct our identity • (psychology/sociology—think Frasier) • 3 Abstract formal beauty (math-think Pachelbel Kanon) • 4 Related to cultures (anthropology-think Balinese lullaby) • 5 Implicated in history (history-think Medieval vs. rock)

  16. http://www.colby.edu/music/saunders/MU111

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