So this week was week 1! This is where we explored the concepts of music and musicianship.They both are similar in meaning however one is defined as "Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion" (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/music) and the other as "The ability to ‘think in sound’ (http://www.abrsm.org/regions/fileadmin/user_upload/syllabuses/pracComplete10.pdf) which portrays that one is a persons physical ability to perform music and the other is the creation of music, in some respects. Some may argue that music is the "human organisation of sound" (edgard varèse) as in order to listen to such an art it has to be put together and recorded using human technology, Meaning that every form of music in the world from what we know of is music. However others may only consider music of Beethoven or Mozart (levitin,D(2006) chapter 1 page 13) and others to only consider the music of tchami or the music of guns n roses to be real music but surely in a modern music industry, anything that is played in the charts or that brings people together or creates emotion is class as music?
In this session we composed our own piece of music in which was to resemble what music is. The title of the piece was "this is music", within this piece we tried to unite as many styles of music as we could in order to portray the meaning of what music is. I think we did this effectively by listening to and cooperating with one another when planning and playing.
