Historical functions of music in society-
Music has a lot of history in it`s society. Some resources reference that music has been present since the dawn of man, ever since we inhabited this planet and learned how to communicate in different ways other than speaking. Music has a great function on humans how they think and act, an average person spends hours a day listening to music even if its a main activity or in the background. Music creates social conditions as music and society have been always interminably related.Its a powerful artifact around a level of social groups because it makes it easier to communicate which can go beyond words.It is also a power for an individual because it can help multiple responses such as movement, need and physiological. Therapy can be involved into an activity to make or be listen. Music and entertainment- music has a component of different kinds of entertainment for example music is used to enhance storytelling, dance, opera and its is used in film and theatre productions. music is universal and it has its own entertainment on its own such as venues,concerts,gigs broadcast, choir,orchestra or even listening to music through headphones. Venues- Music venues can be a range in size and location from a pub gig to a concert hall. Different venues hosts different genres such as concert halls host mainly classical music whereas public houses, nightclubs can offer music in a genre of rock,pop, country and dance.Music venues may be either privately or public funded and may charge to the public.A nightclub is a privately funded venue and they often charge an entry fee.Outdoors venues charge nothing. Dance- Dance music can be composed either from a whole music piece or parts of a large music arrangement. Performance wise it can be either be recorded or performed in live dance music venue. Dance music in the ancient times were the medieval dances that its genre is still used in the western dance music. The classical music era created the waltz and romantic music period which raised various formation of dances such as baracolle,mazurka and plonaise. Modern popular music dance was created by the 19th century western ballroom dance making dance music extremely popular in the 1920s. -In the 1930s swing music become a popular dance music, its stylistics origins came from jazz. -Rock and roll dance become popular in the 1950s,using the rhythm of blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk and western swing. -Disco come in the early 1970s using the elements of funk, soul, pop, salsa and psychedelic. Each dance music period was written for different types of instruments such as: waltz is usually played with orchestras that would include string,brass, woodwind sections and maybe some type of percussion because its not used a lot in waltz.In disco the instruments that are featured is a lead guitar, and orchestral woodwinds that usually do a solo melody. -Time signatures- Waltz-3/4, 28-30 bars per minute disco-4/4 rock and roll-4/4 swing-created as 4/4 but may be played as 12/8 Film industry- Music in the film industry is called as film score.Film score is an original music written to accompany through out the whole film,creating the right emotions for the characters and the actions.A film soundtrack may usually includes dialogue that are spoken by the actors or voice actors and sound effect that are created by a foley artist.Film soundtracks are played by enormous orchestras,instrumental soloist and choral pieces that are timed to specific points of each act to create an emotional impact of the scene. -Scores are written by the composers with the collaboration of a producer.The scores have to be standard and for the film producers liking,then they are played by the musicians and recorded by a sound engineer. -Film scoring can be produced by many varieties of styles of music,depending on the genre of the film.It can be influenced from jazz, rock, pop, blues, western classical music and world music styles.Since electronic instruments and synths were created film scoring has been including electronic elements, they are used to create a more powerful impact for the instruments and the actions shown in the movie. Many composers create their ideas from a music composition software such as: logic, cubase, etc.Composers use samples of live instruments that are included in the software and can be bought in different types of instrument packs. Scores usually do not have lyrics except when sung by the choir or a soloist singer, meaning that songs that are in the movie are not usually parts of a film score although even if the composer writes the songs. -Film scoring began in 1895 when movies had no dialogues and were played in black and white while a pianist performed at the film screening.In the 1914 scores were sent in a full length for the films such as the The fall of a nation, The assassination of the duke of guise, etc.The film industry in Germany in the silent movies era provided original scores that were accompanied by a full orchestra such as Die Nibelugen and Metropolis.The 1950s started to use different styles of music for the films such as the movie streetcar named desire used ideas of jazz and blues influences. -Film usually have 40-120 minutes of music but some may have less or even none.This is called source music because it comes from a screen source that can be inferred.It can be background music or produced by the characters themselves by the movie plot. -Film scoring are structure in different type of themes for different characters, action and ambients.Each character has different themes for example dark Vader theme is sinister while princess Leia is more elegant.Actions and ambients have the same kind of structures. -Time signature, usually the track is in time of the click/metronome.The timing for the orchestras the conductor has the click played in his ear which he conducts to. -Spotting. The director and composer will watch the entire film and spot which parts need music.The composer will take notes in which type of style they want to compose and how long the timing notes and cues needs to last. |
Religious functions of music in society:
Ceremony- its traditions are world wild with its music and dancing,playing the biggest parts of the ceremony.Its one of the first genres in music that came from 60,000 BC.The main function in this type of music is to worship the faith and belief and to celebrate it through out the song. Christianity- Most christian music are composed and written lyrically for beliefs of life and faith in its religion.Most common themes for Christianity music includes praise,worship, penitence and lament. Instrumentation- The instruments that Christians use are the organ, piano, electronic keyboard, guitar and other accompaniment such as a band, an orchestra and choirs. The main job of the instrument players is to accompanied the lead singer. Industry- Christianity music has its own industry developed.In the 1940`s the industry grew gaining a billion dollar enterprise sales exceeded classical jazz and the new age music.The focus in the Christians music industry was the genre of gospel Genres- Christianity can be identified in many types of genres such as salsa, reggae, rock and roll, vice versa. Its identified as Christianity music because lyrically its spoken of life and faith in its religion.Gospel artists use lyrics that display faith and spirituality to varying degrees.It is genuinely popular by its music and lyrics. Media- Christian music in media also grew extremely well, now a days you can listen to christian music over the radio, tv or internet. Festivals- there are different types of festivals such as educative,communities,regionally or nationaly.There is also different types of festival music genres the most famous ones are rock,jazz,pop,electronic music. The earliest festival ever known was the Pythian games at Delphi included musical performances. Christian music festivals are held by the community that supports performers of their music.The themes of christian festival is Jesus Christ but the crowd are appealed towards the artists and their music.Christian festivals were often supported by other organisations however now there are a larger number of free-standing festivals as well. Hindu music- It includes Indian classical music, Kirtan, Bhajan and other musical genres. scales- The popular scale for Hindu music is 1, 2, 3, 4, ,5 ,6 ,7 (Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dac and Ni.) Other scales are produced by just shifting the pitch. The scales are: Bilavaial-Dhirashankarabaranam Kafi-Kharaharapriya Bhairavi-haumantedi Kalyan-Mechakalyani Khamay-Harikaboji Asavari-Natabhairavi Bhajan- Bhajan songs are in a language that express their love to a God/Goddess or a divine.Many Bhajan songs are featured the names and aspects of their God/Goddess.Bhajan music are played in rhythmic beat patterns played on Indian instruments such as flute, tablar ect. Kirtana- A musician performing a kirtana is often known as Kirtankara it invloves chanting to the accompanied of instruments such as Harmonfaim,Tablas, Drums and hand cymbals.Its used in Buddhism, Sikhism and Vemismaint. festivals- Hindu music festivals are about the character and significance.All Hindus festivals are seasonal.The most important festivals in Hindu are about Shiva,Parvati,Vishu,Brahma and Sarawasti. Indian classical music - Indian classical music has the octaves divided in semitones.Just the western classical music but Indian music uses the just information to Ming systems usually the octave is divided into equal steps that has an identical frequency ration and pitch is perceived roughly as the (ogoraithm frequency) Indian classical music uses a lot of improvisation.All popular performance are solo melodically played.the main instruments played in classical music are Bharatigh, Samgneet, Vadga. Jewish music- Jewish music is sung in synagogal and other domestic prayers.The synagogal early music was used in the Jerusalem temple.In the 70 AD after the temple was destroyed public singing of the temple continued in the new version of synagogue. Jewish prayer modes used different varieties of notes, the three main modes are called Ahavah, Rabbah, Magein Avot and Adomai Malach.The singer improvised the prayers within the appropriate mode while following a structure of how each prayer should sound.Musical notation was not used.The traditional Synagogue music is purely vocal so no musical instrument is used.There are different types if genres in Jewish music such as: Pizomonim- songs and melodies praising to god Zemirot- hymns sung in Aramaic languages. Zemirot are sung in certain types of times during the day.The words are taken from poems and its focus on the themes of Sabbah the holidays that are celebrated. Bagashoh-its a collection of songs and prayers that have been sung for centuries every Sabbah eve from midnight until dawn. Instrumentation- The orchestra contained twelve instruments that were the lyre, harp, horn, trumpet, the challil, alamoth, three different pipes and an vygan. The also had a choir that consisted twelve main singers. |