The listening environment and it effect on the perceived meaning of musical case study of headphone listening
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The study of what a song or piece of Music “means “ or how it is interpreted is a widely studied and heavily debated subject that includes many different views and many varying types of analysis.
One commonly over looked variable in these analyses is the effect of the listening environment on the meaning of music.
These environments include
Restaurants, Shops, Home, Gym, Automobile, Music Venue, Place of Worship, personal stereo ??????????????????
From Thomas Edison’s phonograph and Emil Berliners gramophone technological advancements have ent that music has been available to consume in a variety of ways allowing people to choose when and where they listen to music.
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS (BERGER 1936)
JUSTIFICATION (WHY ITS WORTH LOOKING AT) IT’S THE FURURE OF USIC LISTING ?? GET STATS ON IPOD/PERSONAL STERO LISTENING BEING THE MOST PROMENENT ?
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HERMENEUTICS – What does music mean? How can we interpret it?
HERMANUTICS :DEFINITION FOUND A PAPER DESCIBING HOW HERMINUTICS USED IN MUSIC
ONTOLODGY ? (TECHNOLODGY)- HIEDZINGER
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Within this Journal they issued a questionnaire to 346 people and they each received one text per day for 14 days and on receiving the text they had to text back what music they could hear or had heard since there last text.
There were some interesting conclusions drawn from this study for instance
It showed that most People enjoyed listening to music more in isolation
Also, People listened to music most out side of ...
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...tput, right output, or both (the center) (Owsinski 2006: 20)
As usual, it was The Beatles who made most daring use of stereo-switching initially. Throughout the stereo mix for "A Day In The Life;' for instance, the final track on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's lead-vocal tracks are switched to every possible position along the horizontal plane. During the first two strophes, Lennon's vocals are switched to the right extreme. During the third strophe, however, Lennon's vocal track is switched to the center and, then, to the left; astute listeners may notice that, as Lennon's vocal track reaches center along the horizontal plane, it dips in volume. Meanwhile, during the bridge, McCartney's vocals are switched to the right. For the final strophe, Lennon's vocals are switched to the leftmost position along the horizontal plane
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Though an individual may be a producer of a piece of music, it is the audience that shares their like for it and makes it popular. The audience of each piece of music is a community in itself. The significance of the piece is conveyed through what the artist produces and what they call “meaning”. From the audience, the “meaning” lies within the interpretation of the music produced. This meaning can be affected depending on different factors involved in the listening experience. These factors are the lyrics, the form, performance style among others. The piece that demonstrates a “meaning” according to the audience is something they enjoy, what is called popular music and something the audience can identify with as a community (Robinson, Buck and Cuthbert 15). This can be associated with music in the past. Past meaning of music refers to the “material and aesthetic environment in which it was once playing” (Denora 144).
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