For this we describe all the musical elements discussed above. To understand how and why one song sounds differently than another song, and how and why the music of one country sounds differently than the music of another country, we need to understand each song’s musical style: what each song sounds like specifically. Musical Style is the overall mix of the musical elements of a musical performance. Harmony: Consonance, Dissonance, Harmonic Character.Texture: Monophony, Monophony with percussion, Layer, Polyphony, Heterophony, Call and response.Melody: Pitch, Interval, Scale, Contour, Character, Range, Phrasing, Motive.Time: Rhythm, Pulse, Meter, Tempo, Swing, Syncopation, Motive.“Raga Anandi Kalyan” Is a type of music that originates in small intimate gatherings in India, while “Scheherazade” was written to be played in a large concert hall in Europe. “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” is a 1980s pop song played with many acoustic and electric instruments. “Wade In The Water” is a traditional slave spiritual sung traditionally by one or more voices. These works originated in very different cultural contexts, so they sound very different from each other. Russian Philharmonic performing “Scheherazade” composed by Rimsky-Korsakov Ravi and Anoushka Shankar “Raga Anandi Kalyan” In which ways do these four pieces sound similar? In which ways do they sound different? If you need to review the musical elements, a detailed tutorial on the Basic Elements is available online.
Take a moment and describe the musical elements that you hear in each. Then watch the videos below to listen to the songs “ Raga Anandi Kalyan” performed by Ravi and Anoushka Shankar, and “ Scheherazade” composed by Rimsky-Korsakov performed by the Russian Philharmonic. Listen again to the songs “ Rhythm Is Gonna Get You” and “ Wade In The Water” from Chapter 1. We will use these tools in every chapter to understand what the musical styles from specific cultures of the world sound like and why they sound like that. Together with the musical elements in Chapter 1, these tools form the foundation of the entire book. In this chapter we study these questions and how their answers help explain the music we are hearing.
We ask these questions about every song we hear so that we understand why the song sounds like it does. To understand the musical context, in order to understand why the music sounds the way it does, we ask the same questions that journalists do – The five W’s and the H: Who, What, Why, Where, When, and How. In Chapter 2 we will learn tools to analyze and understand musical context. In Chapter 1 we learned the tools to understand better the musical styles familiar and unfamiliar to us.
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