1. What do you think is the distinguishing characteristic of each music?
2. What similarities and differences have you noticed in the music samples?
3. What is your general observation about the music selections?
4. How is traditional music different from the music you hear today?
5. Who among the traditional composers do you like most? Why
Answers & Comments
1.The five characteristics of music are sound (overtone, duration, amplitude, pitch, timbre), melody, rhythm, structure or form, expression, texture, and melody.
2.Nevertheless, similarity can be based also on less objective features such as musical genre, personal history, social context (e.g. music from the 1960s), and a priori knowledge. Finally, musical similarity can be extended to the comparison between musical gestures in performance and composition. ...
3.vocal or instrumental sounds combine in such
way to produce beauty and form and harmony.
Music can express emotions of the writer or a
singer music is also used in dancing in acting
in movies even in theater in short music is
every where. Music can also express history of
someone or somerhing it can also express the
lifes life style of any individuals or tribe and theire
culture.
4.One of the differences is that traditional music focuses on social function. It means that traditional music supports a culture in which this music is played. It also reflects the characteristics of people on that area. while the modern music focuses on how the music combined and integrated with a technology.
5.The German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived.