"Music of the World" - MUL 2720 (Spring 2019) - Warfield

Review Sheet # 2
Titon, Worlds of Music, Chapter 1

  1. What does the term Soundscape mean and how might this concept differ from the basic idea of "music"?
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. See Review Sheet # 1 for Terminology.
  5. What are the four elements of a musical performance, and how do they relate to the music-culture model?
  6. What is Titon's music-culture model, and how do its four elements (know the elements) help to explain and interpret a musical performance?
  7. What does Titon mean by Affective Experience?
  8. What does Titon mean by Performance, and how is the notion of rules important to this concept?
  9. What does Titon mean by Community, and what sorts of individuals might be included in a musical "community"?
  10. How and why are the concepts of Memory and History important in Titon's model?
  11. What are the Four Components of a Music-Culture?
  12. What are the four subdivisions under Alan P. Merriam's first component, Ideas about Music, and what does each explain in a music-culture?
  13. 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?
  14. What is mean by Repertory of music, and what are some of the categories used to organize repertoires?
  15. What sorts of objects are included in the Material Culture of Music?