{"id":481,"date":"2019-01-30T17:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locallinkages.org\/?page_id=481"},"modified":"2019-06-26T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T17:52:12","slug":"3-6-analyzing-music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/course\/module-3\/3-6-analyzing-music\/","title":{"rendered":"3.6 Analyzing Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Estimated time to complete this section: 18 minutes<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Specific musical works, as well as performances of musical works, provide a record of history and culture. Music reflects the debates and explorations of manners, morals, politics, and social change in a given space and time. Comprehensive analysis of music moves beyond viewing these texts as simple reflections; it also examines the ways they interact with other texts and sources (including other pieces of music, cover art, promotional materials, or costuming), as well as the multiple ways they might have been interpreted, performed and used over time.<\/p>\n<p>There are three components to music analysis: analyzing the music as a document, analyzing its historical contexts, and determining its meaning(s). Each component of analysis will require the use of other documents that may be in library holdings: for example, song lyrics, tunes, and arrangements may be located in a variety of printed materials, such as manuscripts, broadsides and sheet music. Other sources, such as photographs, sheet music covers, trade publications, fan clubs and magazines, and business records, and personal papers may provide information regarding historical context, as well as meaning.<\/p>\n<h4>3.6 Video<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/teachinghistory.org\/best-practices\/examples-of-historical-thinking\/25203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Blues Songs<\/a> (Total Video Time: 15:56; video transcripts on page)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing Music as a Document<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Who created the music?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lyricist(s)? Composer(s)?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publisher?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Who are the musicians involved?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-When was the music created?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-What is the music\u2019s structure?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lyrically?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musically?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relation of words and music (e.g., repeating tune with new words, the \u201chook\u201d)?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-What instruments were used?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing the Primary Contexts of Music: those that would have been most important to people at the time of the music\u2019s creation, and might have shaped it<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-When and where was the music originally published or performed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-In what style(s) or genre(s) can the music be placed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Who published or performed it? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Why was the music created?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Why was it published or performed?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-If published or recorded, what technology(ies) were used? (i.e, cylinders or records; CD or mp3; cassettes or sheet music)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyzing the Secondary Contexts of Music: those emerging after the song\u2019s creation that might help in understanding its significance<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-Did the music take on a life of its own? <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are there other notable performances or recordings of this music? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did the music&#8217;s meaning change over time? <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the music come to represent or define place or identity? Does this change over time?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-What have people said and written about the song?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-How was the song described by its creators and early performers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-How have audiences responded to or interpreted the song?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adapted from Ronald Walters and John Spitzer, &#8220;Making Sense of American Popular Song,&#8221; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/historymatters.gmu.edu\/mse\/Songs\/, June 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/locallinkages.org\/course\/module-3\/3-5-analyzing-monuments\/\">Previous Section<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/locallinkages.org\/course\/module-3\/3-7-analyzing-numbers\/\">Next Section<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimated time to complete this section: 18 minutes &nbsp; Specific musical works, as well as performances of musical works, provide a record of history and culture. 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