Part 1.
- Music can act like a bridge between cultures, when language fails us. It conveys the feelings on their own.
- "Pentatonic" is a system of 5 notes, which are used in music all over the world.
- C, D, E, F, G, A, B.
- There are 12 notes in a western scale. In different cultures the amount of note is different. It doesn't matter, how many notes you take for your melody, what matters, actualy, is how you deal with those notes.
- "Pitch" is the measuring of how high or low a musical note is.
Part 2.
- "Interval" is the distance between the notes in the melody. "Интервал". "Semitone" is the smallest interval between the notes. "Полутон". "Whole tone" is 2 semitons. "Полный тон".
- The experiment: He's trying to sing 2 whole tones and then 2 semitones. He claims, that it is easier for people to sing the whole tones rather than semitones.
- The creation of the melody is very similar to the creation of the story, and with playing notes, one by one, it's like you're telling a story, word by word. Storytelling is based on a large amount of archetypes. So it is with tunes. There are ancient patterns and arrangements of notes that function as archetypes for the millions of melodies.
- "Modes" are basic common scales for all cultures.
- The Aeolian mode sounds solemn and sorrowful.
- "Sharpen the note" - raising it by a semitone. "Flatten the note" - lowing the note by a semitone. Group: "Blind Lemon Jefferson"
Part 3.
- "Diatonic" - a system, where all the instruments and all the singers could play together. It takes one or two old modes and makes them sound together. "Диатоническая система"
- The ol notes were much more attached that chosen started points. Tne minor scale patterns on changed and fixed. It can start on any of the semitones in Western ladder. The old instruments could only play the certain modes. Major scale is identical to the old Ionian mode, it was rebranded. The new minor and major scales were designed to be compatable with each other. 1. The same arrangement of notes works no matter what note or pitch you started your scale. 2. When the different modes developed, new instruments were produced, that could play together.
Part 4.
- The first tone of the melody is presented in its basic form. Than minor key can turn to the major. Some minutes later another melody interrupts the first. It is short and dramatic. By the endof the concerto the melody involves the variations.
- Mahler started to incorporate old models of music from folk music all around the country. Vaughan Williams used in his compositions sall step by step movements in phrygian mood.
Part 5.
- Sting is assosiating in his "We work the Black Seam" ancient sound and sounds of industry around us. Ingredients of American music: Folk tunes, African temps, promisland rythm, optimistic mood, proportions.
