Session 4 Phil Tagg’s Musicological Model
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Phil Tagg's methodology for musicological analysis involves several key steps: 1) Selecting an "Analysis Object" (AO) that has broad communication potential. 2) Identifying the musical "Parameters of Expression" and elements in the AO. 3) Finding short meaningful segments called "musemes" within the AO. 4) Comparing the AO to similar "Inter-objective Comparison Materials" (IOCM) to understand collective meanings.
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Pythagoras viewed music as a branch of mathematics and discovered relationships between the pitch of notes and string lengths. He developed one of the first mathematical scales based on octave and fifth intervals. Mathematics is involved in many aspects of music including frequency, duration, time signatures, rhythm, intervals, chords, counting, conducting, and contemporary music forms like 12-tone music which are based on mathematical matrices. Fractions represent note values in musical notation and show the relationship between notes and rhythmic movement in music.
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Write a discussion of 800 words on the topic below. Use footnotes when citing sources and include a bibliography. Make sure to use the following naming convention
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The Four Seasons
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Elements of music
Pitch refers to high or low tones that are organized into scales described by terms like major, minor, chromatic, and pentatonic. Rhythm is the time element of music characterized by patterns in time that relate to a steady pulse or tempo organized into meter. Melody combines pitch and rhythm, sometimes as a theme, described by its contour and interval size between notes. Timbre is the tone color or quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument from another. Dynamics refer to the loudness or softness of sound that can change suddenly or gradually. Texture describes if the music has one or many voices including monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic, heterophony, or a collage of different textures
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