Contexts In Which We Encounter Music Flashcards
What is the most common context we encounter music in?
Recording - can capture music in digital form and have music in your everyday environment
Easy to access music, unlike in previous decades
What is a specific musical object/context?
Performance or show
Where might we incidentally experience music?
Accompaniment to a dance
Accompaniment/soundtrack to a film/TV
Background in shops or restaurants
Where might we ceremonially experience music?
Religious services
Political situations (rallies and election campaigns)
Military (brass bands in political ceremonies or changing of the guards)
Football (audience singing as part of the ambient, secondary sound)
What are informal examples of music?
Lullaby, whilsting, singing, practising in between performances
Not performing to anyone consciously
Making music by yourself, for yourself.
What is the function of a lullaby?
To get child to sleep - these are performative in a certain way
