Monday, July 2, 2012

Class Notes

Music Accessibility - how easy can it be played/sung?  Pop music is popular because it is easy to replicate, everyone can sing it.  Martin Luther wanted simple music to be sung in church so that it could be sung by everyone and easily understood - which was in controversy to the movement at the time to complicate things.

Baroque - new techniques - Opera.  Emotion, psychological exploration...
There's something about music that gets to us and expresses emotion that words sometimes can't.  Operas were written to people's taste.  It was new and received a good response.

Bach - Fugue in G Minor.  Repetitive, however, increases in complexity and difficulty each time around.


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