[Understand Music] 1. Music as a

Concert music vs pop music

1. concert music = classical music

2. difficult to distinguish : Mozart's popular and modernistic sonata becomes another era's concert music.

3. econ is not the criterion; composers of all types of music need money; poverty sucks; don't choose to be poor.

4. concert music has a higher information content than popular music

Music as a mirror (of society)

1. social changes

2. ego of composers!!!!!! Composers began to sign their works in high middle ages. They wanted to be original and stylistic since then.

3. new modes of expression; the nature of expression changes over time; [old-fashioned clothes seem funny nowadays, but were popular back in time.]

Proper terminology

1. have to use musical vocabulary to describe the subtleties of music!!!!!!

        e.g. disjunct, conjunct

Composers are architects. Idols don't compose music!!!