Music In Everyday Life

Question 1

Is hearing music and listening to music the same or different?

Answer 1

Different

Heard music - might be an involuntary listener of background music

Listen to music - selectively choose a piece of music to listen to

Question 2

What are 4 ways in which music plays a part in our everyday lives?

Answer 2

Hear music
Listen to music
Make music
Respond to music

Question 3

What are some examples of making music?

Answer 3

Singing in the shower
Practicing piano
Playing part of a band

Question 4

What are some examples of responding to music?

Answer 4

Singing along, dancing, clubbing

Question 5

What psychologist argued that we should think about music as a verb ‘to music’ / musicking?

Answer 5

Small (1998, 1999)

Question 6

What did Small suggest?

Answer 6

We should look at the activities surrounding the music, rather than the tehcnical side of music. E.g., music includes performing, listening, rehearsing, practising, dancing, and providing material for performance.

Question 7

What is musicking (Small)?

Answer 7

The act of performance and any participation in it (e.g., dancing, selling tickets in a venue)

Question 8

What did Small suggest the purpose of music is?

Answer 8

Primarily, the purpose of music is communication (e.g., through dancing etc.)

Question 9

What did Small argue about rituals in terms of music?

Answer 9

Musical activity is bound together between relationships between composers, performers, listeners etc.

Question 10

What can music exist without?

Answer 10

Can exist without a listener or a composer

Question 11

What is music ALWAYS?

Answer 11

A performance

Question 12

What is the role of the composer in music?

Answer 12

To script the music

Question 13

What is the role of the performer in music?

Answer 13

Interpret the composer’s music

Question 14

What is the role of the listener in music?

Answer 14

Judge the performers on their interpretation

Judge the composers on the quality for what they can hear

Question 15

What does the relationship between the performance and audience depend on?

Answer 15

The social function of the music

Question 16

What causes a performance/audience gap?

Answer 16

Stage

Performers are glorified (even when inviting members of the audience up on stage)

Question 17

What culture is a performance/audience gap particularly common?

Answer 17

Western music

Performance doesn’t often involve the whole village

Question 18

What is a function of music in other, non-Western cultures?

Answer 18

Performance

Question 19

Is music separable or inseparable from other activites?

Answer 19

Previously music used to be part of a ceremonial occasion and would have been inseparable from the occasion.

Over the years, music has been separated from other activities and has become increasingly contained within its own context (particularly in the West)