Everyday music Vs Academic Music.

Everyday Music v's Acedemic music

EVERYDAY MUSIC:

The term "serious" or "cultivated" are frequently used in relation to music in order to present a contrast with ordinary, everyday music (i.e. popular and folk music, also called "vernacular music").

ACADEMIC MUSIC:

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. ... There are even varying academic definitions of the term genre itself.

When most people think of physics, they think of particles and space. They tend to overlook some of the more fundamental concepts encompassed by physics. These concepts extend deep into everyday activities, and often we apply this logic without even realizing it. To help identify some of these hidden concepts, we will take a look at how physics plays an integral part in music.Before we can delve straight into music, it is important to know a little bit about how sound actually works.(Daliana Pacuraru. (19 march 1987)

Sound waves are considered to be a vibration that travels through mediums like air and water. They are a result of particles bunching together and spreading apart (as shown in the clip below). Similar to a wave in the water, sound waves have a frequency, wavelength, amplitude, speed and direction.

Sound waves can also be reflected (think echoes), refracted (being able to hear people talking around the corner) or attenuate (decrease in volume) as they passes through the medium.Another way to think of sound waves is to compare them to light waves.

Although they are both waves (light has wave-like properties), they vary in many other areas. You may wonder how you can hear conversations coming from around the corner, but can’t see the people talking. That is because sound has a much larger wavelength than light, allowing it to be easily diffracted around corners and openings.

To put this all into perspective, the table below compares some of the main features of both light and sound.Anyone can make noise, but making noise that is enjoyable and invokes emotion is something completely different. Believe it or not, the distinguishing factor between music and noise is a mathematical form! Although both are mixtures of sound waves at different frequencies, music is considered to be ordered sound, while noise is disordered sound.(Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

For example, the mixture of sound waves that produce music can be easily separated into individual frequencies, with some being more dominant than others (discrete structure). On the other hand, noise contains all possible frequencies of sound with no dominant frequency present (continuous structure).Now just because music is ordered doesn’t mean that it is always pleasant.

The mood of the music is a direct result of how certain notes are played together. These emotional tricks are called consonance and dissonance. (Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

Music that has consonances in it is described as being more pleasant to the ear as it consists of a stable, consistent tone. Consonance also appears in writing in the form of rhyming words and is used often in poems. Dissonance is a disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms, causing a sensation of unpleasantness. Examples can be found in things like sirens and violent horror scenes with screeching violins.Physicists are able to dive into the mathematical complexities of music to understand on a more fundamental level how it works. (Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

To physicists, music isn’t just pleasant on the ear; it is a collection of sound waves interfering with one another. Just like any other item possessing wave-like properties, it can be analysed and built upon in the same way.

One example of how music can be analysed is by decomposing it into individual frequencies and looking at how each individual note contributes to the overall piece. A similar method is used with light from astrophysical bodies to determine their composition (also known asspectroscopy). So it is that transferability between fields that is a major selling point for physicists.(Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

The study of acoustics is also considered to be one of the fundamentals when learning physics, so it isn’t too surprising that people who study the mechanics of sound are also quite gifted musicians. A branch of acoustics specifically relating to music also exists and requires an extensive physics background. (Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

It includes areas of study such as: the function of musical instruments; the human voice (the physics of speech and singing); computer analysis of melody; and in the clinical use of music in music therapy.Many physicists often find it hard to express their passion for their work to the general population.

But music allows them to connect with the public using this well known medium. (Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

You might be surprised to learn that your favorite physicist is also a musician. Here are just a few:

Albert Einstein: played the violin.

Werner Heisenberg: played the piano.

Brian Cox: played keyboard for the bands Dream and Dare.

Brian May: played lead guitar for Queen.Diane de also known as Diane Nalini

Jazz singer and songwriter.Woody Paul: vocalist and fiddler for Riders in the Sky.

(Daliana Pacuraru. 19 march 1987)

The Nature Of Sound Waves

Annotated Bibliography:

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The modern art movement of Pop Art was a hugely successful modern art movement. The hight of it's popularity was during the 1960s.

The champions of Pop Art were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and To Wesselmann.

It is widely thought that Pop Art was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism or it was an evolutionary move from Abstract Expressionism.

2:Ruth Herbert (11 march 2016) Referenced from google https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JocHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA48&dq=what+is+the+definition+of+every+day+music&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUuI_R1crbAhWLwbwKHQYDDdEQ6AEILzAB

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