Tweet Music Post > Playlist A “Musical Ensemble” is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform. A group of two …
Category Archive: Music Post of the Month (2010)
Music Post of the Month (11) “Music Notation”
Tweet Music Post > Playlist “Music Notation” or musical notation is any system that represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols. Western history The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, Iraq in about 2000 B.C. The tablet represents fragmentary instructions for …
Music Post of the Month (10) “Music and the Brain”
Tweet Music Post “Music and the Brain” is the science by which the brain underlies the subjective experience of sounds and noises as having the quality of music. Pitch When we hear a certain pitch, a corresponding part of the tonotopically organized basilar membrane in the inner ear responds, and sends the signal to the …
Music Post of the Month (9) “Orchestra”
Tweet Music Post > Playlist An “Orchestra” is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek, which means the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus. The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the …
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