Tag Archives: musicology

Typology of Mixes: How do the change through time?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Paul Carr

In today’s musicology lecture – we discussed a few ways in which a musical mix can be analyzed. It started by suggesting the following factors as a way to consider recorded sound. We need to think of this as a … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Paul Carr

Well – its been a very long time since my last blog. Moving house got the better of me – so had no choice but to give in to the pressures 🙂 Anyway, I have just given a presentation at … Continue reading →

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The Semiology of Music Part 1: Is it the music or our words that are Vague?

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Paul Carr

This week was the first of a series of lectures on how music REFERS meaning.  What I am interested in is any examples of how music imparts meaning using – Saussures simple dyadic model as a starting point. The question … Continue reading →

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Vertical Melodic Analysis

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Paul Carr

Where as my blog last week focused on horizontal  melodic analysis – this session concerned the vertical movement of melody. More specifically, the session was related to how tension and release operates when specific note types come up against a … Continue reading →

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Melodic Analysis: horizontal techniques

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Paul Carr

This weeks musicology lecture examined  ways in which it is possible to analyse popular music melody – specifically from a horizontal perspective. As will be seen in the PowerPoint and the audio stream of the lecture – I get some … Continue reading →

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More Analysis of Social Space: Sting’s Dead Mans Boots

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Paul Carr

Last weeks post commenced with a discussion of the ways in which the background of a musical mix can resonate with the persona in a song – describing it as ‘Inert’,  ‘Active’ or ‘oppositional’ (I still need more examples of … Continue reading →

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The Environment and Persona of a Musical Mix

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Paul Carr

This week, I have asked students to consider the ontological gap between a singer and the ‘environment’ or textual  backing. We started with two simple points: Texture can be ‘physical’ (descriptive sound) and/or ‘rhetorical’ (carry extra-musical meaning). It is the … Continue reading →

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Modern Uses of The Soundbox: Examples of Triangular Mixes

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Paul Carr

Today in my musicology session – we discussed a few ways in which a musical mix can be analyzed. It started by suggesting the following factors as a way to consider recorded sound. ¨Listen closely for  the relationships between instruments … Continue reading →

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200 Motels: The Programme Notes that Never Happened!

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Paul Carr

Editor ‘Frank Zappa and the And’ For those that are interested, here are the programme notes that never happened! Guitarist, satirist, political activist, music technologist film maker and composer, Frank Zappa (1940-1993) has to be objectively considered one of the … Continue reading →

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Elements of Music and Impact on Musical Form

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Paul Carr

My last musicology session discussed the various ways in which the elements of music impacted our appreciation of music. Factors such as dynamics, texture, timbre, harmony, melody etc are interesting – as they can be discussed with all age groups … Continue reading →

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