2. Chapter 1 Music Listening and You Begins on page 2

3. Why Learn about Music?  Music makes life fuller and more interesting  It’s like adding color to a picture

4. Why Learn about Music?  Yes, you can live without music – But your life will more complete with it!

5. Music Is Created for Many Different Purposes  To dance or march to  To provide a sonic background  To encourage a sense of unity in a group  To express religious feelings  For psychological satisfaction

6. Concert Music  Created primarily for listening  Its sounds must be interesting and satisfying or else they will be ignored or forgotten

7. Ordinary ≠ Extraordinary  Ordinary: “Here today, gone tomorrow”  Extraordinary: “Here today, here tomorrow”

8. “I know what I like” “I like what I know”  People almost always like the music they are familiar with  It’s difficult to like something you hardly know  Learning about music you do not know will open up a much larger musical world

9. Listening to Music You will listen to music much better if you  Realize that hearing and listening are not the same  Listen to concert music very carefully and contemplate its sounds

10. Listening to Music  Each piece has features to be heard and noticed  Listen especially for them

11. Listening to Music  Develop different modes of listening – sensuous, expressive, and purely musical – because ► Music offers the pleasure of its sounds ► Music often reaches into our deepest feelings ► Music fascinates us with how its sounds are organized

12. Listening to Music  Develop different expectations about concert music ► It does not try to grab your attention ► It is not as loud as most popular music ► It usually is performed without lots of actions ► It is usually longer and more complex

13. Listening to Music  Remember what you hear, because ► You hear only a moment of sound ► The rest is what you remember and your guess about what will be sounded next

14. Listening to Music  Become more sensitive to musical sounds  Try to notice your feelings and reactions to music

15. Listening to Music  Use the CDs and Active Listening Guides to help you ► Yes, help is ready and waiting ► Take advantage of it!

16. Follow the Active Listening Guide for “Hoe Down” from Rodeo  Observe the overall plan of the music  Notice that the colors show the pattern of the music  Follow the arrow to know exactly what’s being sounded at that moment  Read the text material that appears at appropriate moments

17. Listening with the Listening Guide  The Listening Guide is on page 8 ► The times on the left are cumulative ► The times next to the text are from the track points Copyright © 2010 by Schirmer Cengage Learning

18. Listening without Any Aids  Listen to “Hoe Down” again outside of class without any visual aids  That’s the way you usually listen to music

19. Listening and Information  You had to use two legs to walk to class today  You need two “legs” to understand music better, especially art music ► Knowledge about music ► Ability to perceive its sounds  Each contributes to the other

20. Conclusion  Together they will make music and this course more interesting and worthwhile for you

21. Summary  Why Learn about Music?  Music Is Created for Many Different Purposes  Concert Music  Ordinary ≠ Extraordinary  “I know what I like” “I like what I know”  Listening to Music  Follow the Active Listening Guide for “Hoe Down”  Listening with the Listening Guide  Listening without Any Aids  Listening and Information  Conclusion