Music 10

• Performance Practice


  Indicates the attempt to perform music in the way envisaged originally by the composer
• Musicology


  Study of music as an academic subject

  Training in performance or composition

  Scholarly research into music
• The study of performance practice extends from the study of music of the earliest periods to that of relatively recent periods in the 19th and early 20th century
• Significant interest in musicology rose in the second half of the 20th century, as well as the technology and scholarship.
• Performance practice was important for the construction of copies of earlier instruments and to the study of methods of performance on these instruments
• Setting


  In theater/film, it is the scenery, properties, or background to create the location for a stage play, film, etc.
• Musical Composition


  Refers to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music
• Composers


  People who create compositions
• Performers can be composers


  Composers sometimes can also be performers
• Composers wrote music to meet the needs of a more diverse audience
• Audience


  A group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music, video games, or academics in any medium
• Some events invite overt audience participation and others allow only modest clapping and criticism and reception
• People grew disinterested with the themes of ancient myths and instead favored themes they could relate to. As a result, music forms during this period were simpler and less intense.
• As the listening public grew in number, demands for music lessons, instruments, and printed music increased