The Musical sound is any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre. From the tinkle of a bell to the slam of a door, any sound is a potential ingredient for the kinds of sound organization called music. Music arises from human behaviour, and the study of human behaviour is part of biology. Some believe that folk music originated as art music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission, while reflecting the character of the society that produced it. In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by ear, although notation has evolved in some cultures. Different cultures may have different notions concerning a division between "folk" music on the one hand and of "art" and "court" music on the other. In the proliferation of popular music genres, some traditional folk music became also referred to "World music" or "Roots music". The most significant variations in musical exposure are where people belong to totally different cultures and each culture has its own distinct type of music. Not only are the tunes different, but the scales that the tunes live on are different. This five volume encyclopaedia book is an effort to collect folk music play in various parts of the world. This collection will be emensaly useful reference for students of musicoloty and all those interested and related to the music field in any manner.
Ravindra Kumar Chaudhary is Associate Professor, Department of Dance and Music, R.K. College, Madhubani. He has done B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. in Instrumental Music and Vocal from T.M.B.U., Bhagalpur. His several research papers have been published in reputed journals. She has also attended many national seminars.
Sound is the audible frequency produced whenever there are certain kinds of vibrations in specific mediums like air, water, solid etc. The Musical sound is any tone with characteristics such as controlled pitch and timbre. The sounds are produced by instruments in which the periodic vibrations can be controlled by the performer. That some sounds are intrinsically musical, while others are not, is an oversimplification. From the tinkle of a bell to the slam of a door, any sound is a potential ingredient for the kinds of sound organization called music. The choices of sounds for music making have been severely limited in all places and periods by a diversity of physical, aesthetic, and cultural considerations. This article will analyze those involved in Western musical traditions. The fundamental distinction usually made has been between tone and noise, a distinction best clarified by referring to the physical characteristics of sound. Tone differs from noise mainly in that it possesses features that enable it to be regarded as autonomous.
Music arises from human behaviour, and the study of human behaviour is part of biology. So any question about music is a question about biology, and every question about biology requires an answer within the framework of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural. selection. Throughout most of human prehistory and history, listening to recorded music was not possible. Music was made by common people during both their work and leisure, as well as during religious activities. The work of economic production was often manual and communal. Manual labor often included singing by the workers, which served several practical purposes. It reduced the boredom of repetitive tasks, it kept the rhythm during synchronized pushes and pulls, and it set the pace of many activities such as planting, weeding, reaping. threshing, weaving, and milling. In leisure time, singing and playing musical instruments were common forms of entertainment and history. telling-even more common than today, when electrically enabled technologies and widespread literacy make other forms of entertainment and information-sharing competitive. Some believe that folk music originated as art music that was changed and probably debased by oral transmission, while reflecting the character of the society that produced it. In many societies, especially preliterate ones, the cultural transmission of folk music requires learning by car, although notation has evolved in some cultures. Different cultures may have different notions concerning a division between "folk" music on the one hand and of "art" and "court" music on the other. In the proliferation of popular music genres, some traditional folk music became also referred to "World music" or "Roots music". The most significant variations in musical exposure are where people belong to totally different cultures and each culture has its own distinct type of music. Not only are the tunes different, but the scales that the tunes live on are different (although usually there are scales, and those scales usually repeat every octave, but not always). The distinction between "authentic" folk and national and popular song in general has always been loose, particularly in America and Germany. The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term can also apply to music that, "...has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community. But the term does not cover a song, dance, or tune that has been taken over ready-made and remains unchanged."
This five volume encyclopaedia book is an effort to collect folk music play in various parts of the world. This collection will be emensaly useful reference for students of musicoloty and all those interested and related to the music field in any manner.
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