MID-TERM EXAM

Name: Lưu Kim Ngọc

ID:1606720

Basic Concepts
1.What is music?
Music is the art of arranging sounds in time through the elements of melody,
harmony, rhythm, and timbre. It is one of the universal cultural aspects of all
human societies. General definitions of music include common elements such
as pitch, rhythm, dynamics and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.
2. What is sound?
Sound constitutes the raw material of which music is composed.
3.What is pitch?
Pitch is determined by the rate of the sound waves’ vibration. It's highness or
lowness of a sound.
4.What is intervals?
Intervals is the distances between two pitches.
5.What is dynamics?
Dynamics is level of volume.
6.What is tempo?
It is rate of speed at which a musical piece is performed.
7.What is pulsed?
Pulsed is a musical piece's either audible or implied series of uniformly
spaced beats—in other words, uniformly timed instants of punctuating sound—and
thus is the monotonous "tapping" that sets the tempo and that underlies or anchors
the rhythm.
8.What is unpulsed?
Unpulsed is having no discernable pulse.
9.What is appreciation in music?
Appreciation in music is the understanding of the value and merit of different
styles of music. The term “appreciation” has roots in philosophy, where it is
described in a musical sense as a “kind of formal analogue of emotional
experience”. It can be associated with musical criticism, and is used to describe the
positive and negative responses of a given musical work from a scholarly
perspective. 
10.What is music appreciation?
Music appreciation is a division of musicology that is designed to teach
students how to understand and describe the contexts and creative processes
involved in music composition.

Aesthetics
1.What is aesthetics?
Aesthetics of music is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature
of art, beauty and taste in music, and with the creation or appreciation of beauty in
music.[1] In the pre-modern tradition, the aesthetics of music or musical aesthetics
explored the mathematical and cosmological dimensions of rhythmic and harmonic
organization. 
2.Please re-write 7 Principles of Aesthetics.
 Expertise or virtuosity:   Technical artistic skills are cultivated, recognized,
and admired. 
 Non-utilitarian pleasure: People enjoy art for art’s sake, and don’t demand
that it keep them warm or put food on the table. 
 Style:   Artistic objects and performances satisfy rules of composition that
place them in a recognizable style. 
 Criticism:   People make a point of judging, appreciating, and interpreting
work of art. 
 Imitation:   With a few important exceptions like music and abstract
painting, works of art simulate experiences of the world. 
  Special focus:   Art is set aside from ordinary life and made a dramatic focus
of experience. 
 Imagination: Artists and their audiences entertain hypothetical worlds in the
theater of the imagination.

Biography of a great composer.

Please re-write the biography of Mozart from the pdf book MUSIC THE ART OF
LISTENING.
One of history’s most tragic figures, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his
performing career as a child prodigy. He played the piano (still something of a
novelty in his day), harpsichord, organ, and violin beautifully and was taken by his
father on a number of concert tours through several European countries. The young
performer delighted his noble audiences, who rewarded him, however, with flattery
and pretty gifts rather than with fees. Mercilessly prodded by his self-seeking
father, on whom he remained emotionally dependent most of his life, Mozart
constantly sought to please his parent (who was never satisfied), his wife
(demanding and ungrateful), his public (appreciative but ungenerous), and finally
himself (who never doubted his own genius). Though fun loving, sociable, and
generous to a fault, Mozart never learned the art of getting along with people. He
could not refrain from offering honest but unsolicited criticism; nor could he bring
himself to flatter a potential patron. Fiercely independent, he insisted on managing
his own affairs, apparently without great success: though recent scholarship reveals
that he earned substantial sums, he was chronically short of money. Few besides
Mozart’s great contemporary Haydn appreciated the true worth of this man who
wrote such quantities of beautiful music in such a short time. Mozart lived a short
and difficult life, and now lies buried in an unmarked grave.

Listening

1.What do you feel the composer is trying to express?

In my opinion, they are darkness, loneliness, fear but at the same time very
strong, the later the more grawing, anxious.
2.What make you feel this way?
At first, the track is very fast-paced , with high picth appearing continuously.
Towards the end of the song, there are more silences interwoven with the high
pitch that create the emotional flow of the song.
3.What instruments do you hear?
I hear the sound of oboe
4.What do you believe the most important thing is about this work? and why?
I think it is a technique that requires understanding, agility as well as professional
skill and practice of the player
5.Do you like this work? Why or why not?
Certainly, this track is amazing, it touched my heart not only because of the
technique but also the feeling.
6.Which of the 7 Principles of Aesthetics do you think applies best? and why?
I think it is expertise or virtuosity, as I said above, technical artistic skills of this
playing are admirable
7.Name one thing you find interesting of liked about this work?
It must be the high pitch, given me deeply impression. It is an indispensable part
creating the value of this playing
8.Name one thing you dislike about this work?
It is also the high pitch with a dense frequency at the beginning of playing,
sometimes jarring and I can't hear clearly.