MUSIC AS SOUNDBringing students up to scratch by rethinking the definition of the word ‘scratch’

Dr Freya Jarman

School of Music

Context

3 programmes Music/Popular Music: A-level Music at grade

B Music: A-level Music at grade B Popular Music: no musical background

required And

Communications Studies & Popular Music: no musical background required

Student groups Classically trained Tutored or self-taught; some music

theory Self-taught musician; no music theory No musical background at all

Analyse this!

Analyse this!

Analyse this!

Have you ever...?

Listened to music Sung Played an instrument Studied music Done music analysis

Stick or twist

Instrumentation Pace Rhythmic features Pitch relations Timbre of instrument/voice Genre Historical period Country of origin

It’s analysis, Jim, but not as we know it...

Pitch Time Instruments Voice Production

Implications

Analysis in popular music studies Analysis in study of western art music Analysis of non-western music