"Music of the World" - MUL 2720 (Spring 2019) - Warfield
Review Sheet # 2
Titon, Worlds of Music, Chapter 1
- What does the term Soundscape mean and how might this concept differ from the basic idea of "music"?
- What is a Music-Culture, how does one acquire his/her own "music culture," and how and why might one have difficulty understanding another music culture?
- What is Music (define the term)? Be able to explain why some of the examples discussed in the textbook (pp. 5-9) are or are not music.
- See Review Sheet # 1 for Terminology.
- What are the four elements of a musical performance, and how do they relate to the music-culture model?
- What is Titon's music-culture model, and how do its four elements (know the elements) help to explain and interpret a musical performance?
- What does Titon mean by Affective Experience?
- What does Titon mean by Performance, and how is the notion of rules important to this concept?
- What does Titon mean by Community, and what sorts of individuals might be included in a musical "community"?
- How and why are the concepts of Memory and History important in Titon's model?
- What are the Four Components of a Music-Culture?
- What are the four subdivisions under Alan P. Merriam's first component, Ideas about Music, and what does each explain in a music-culture?
- What are some of the Activities in Music that concern ethnomusicologists, and how might these sorts of activities reveal something about the music-cultures in which they occur? What is the difference between presentational and participatory musics?
- What is mean by Repertory of music, and what are some of the categories used to organize repertoires?
- What sorts of objects are included in the Material Culture of Music?