What is Emotion?
How do human beings express emotion?
How many emotions are there?
How do we articulate emotions?
What is the point
of music?
Music has many different functions
What is it an indicator of? Used widely in the animal
kingdom to express emotions
First instruments discovered to be 40,000 years old – just think
how long ago that was
Music is an amazing way of expressing emotion and feeling
Introduction to Task 1 –
Write a short summary:
What is music?
Why is it important?
How long has it been around for?
Is it good at allowing us to express ourselves?
Why?
List as many functions of music as you can think of
Call to prayer/political/propaganda/vocalise difficult
messages/make money/entertainment/work
songs/identity/rituals/celebration/enhance emotion/set the tone
Historically it was used to pass information down through
generations before literacy was common – why is it good for this? Folk Music
Definition “music that originates in traditional popular culture, typically of
unknown authorship and transmitted orally from generation to generation (much
like a pop hook or earworm)
Examples - Historical
Religion – used music a lot to ‘set the tone’ of ceremonies,
keep people respectful and in fear of god, as a method celebration and mourning
and historically often peoples only exposure to music -
Traditional Folk - Diggers Song/English Civil War - passing on messages before literacy was commonplace
Ceremonial - Wedding/Funeral/Coronation/Last Post - designed to add gravitas and emotion to the ceremony
Traditional Folk - Diggers Song/English Civil War - passing on messages before literacy was commonplace
Ceremonial - Wedding/Funeral/Coronation/Last Post - designed to add gravitas and emotion to the ceremony
Examples
Entertainment – Dancing/Comedy/Accompany moving image to add
emotion and feeling – express love, sadness, happiness, covers all of the
emotions
Look at Opera (late 19th Century)/Variety and Music Hall/Gilbert & Sullivan
Comedy Music - Variety & Music Hall/Morecamble & Wise/Two Ronnies/Flight Of The Conchords/Mighty Boosh/Bill Bailey/Reggie Watts
Dance Music - 1950s Jazz/Northern Soul/Rave Music
Look at Opera (late 19th Century)/Variety and Music Hall/Gilbert & Sullivan
Comedy Music - Variety & Music Hall/Morecamble & Wise/Two Ronnies/Flight Of The Conchords/Mighty Boosh/Bill Bailey/Reggie Watts
Dance Music - 1950s Jazz/Northern Soul/Rave Music
Examples
Folk music evolved in modern times to be used as a way of
telling difficult stories, or commenting on the status quo, or as a protest
Examples
As with most art forms it has an element of advancing what
is seen as normal – this is often called the Avant-garde (cutting edge) and is
used to move the boundaries of what is accepted as mainstream culture – as the
goalposts shift what was seen as extreme becomes normal, and Performance Artist
of the avant-garde look for new extremes they can adapt and work with
Examples
Youth Culture and expression of identity harks back to
tribal culture - it is a big part of each generation creating their own forms
of expression, maybe as a rebellion against the previous generation