Tag Archives: elements of music

Ways of Thinking About Song Arrangement and Track

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Paul Carr

  I have spent today playing around with some ideas for a new book I am in the early stages of working on. There are a lot of sweeping statements in there at the moment – but this is where … Continue reading →

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Critical Listening and Students: Popular Music and Form

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Paul Carr

In preparation for a musicology lecture this week, I began to think about the importance of students having an awareness of the general conventions in popular music. Factors such as an awareness of the commonality of eight bar sections (verses … Continue reading →

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Prioritising the Elements of Music as a Starting Point of Analysis

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Paul Carr

This weeks  podcast concerns how we can begin to use the elements of music as a starting point of music analysis. It starts with three main questions How are the elements being used? This can be as basic as a … Continue reading →

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Noel Gallagher dominates vinyl sales in the UK in 2015

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Paul Carr

There is an interesting post in the Guardian stating that no other than Noel Gallagher is dominating both the single and album vinyl charts. If this is not surprising news – I am also alarmed at the number of male … Continue reading →

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The Elements of Music and Musical Form

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Paul Carr

This podcast is on the relationship on the elements of music and form. It considers the ways in which elements such as musical texture, time signatures, and harmony can interact to create expectations in a listener. In popular music, these … Continue reading →

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The Elements of Music: How can we use them to discuss ‘interest’ in a piece of music?

Posted on May 19, 2015 by Paul Carr

This post concerns the elements of music, and the ways in which they are prioritised to indoctrinate interest in a piece of music. How can we use the elements that for most are so familiar, to begin to analyse popular … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on the A Level Music Curriculum

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Paul Carr

I have spent much time over the last several years trying to think more deeply about some of the issues associated with the ways in which students are prepared for higher education music courses. The National Diploma awards which were … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Personae and Musical Environment

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Paul Carr

I have just given a lecture on the development of musical personae (mainly influenced by academics such as Cone, Auslander and Moore) and its resonance with musical texture. We began by suggesting the following two types of musical texture Texture … Continue reading →

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The Impact of the Musical Elements on Form

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Paul Carr

My yearly lecture on the relationship of the elements of music and musical form took a different approach this year. The lecture began by playing a number of examples taken from the current UK top 10 – that adhere to … Continue reading →

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Music Analysis and the Elements of Music

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Paul Carr

Like I have done for the last few years, I gave my annual lecture to my musicology class regarding the ways that the Elements of Music (EOM) can be a good starting point for analysis. In the UK, the EOM … Continue reading →

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