Students categorizing music 2016
Introduction
When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: categorizing music.
Below you find the continuation of a growing collection of original answers I received. There are many similarities, but I find the dissimilarities equally interesting. Finally, some thought-models proposed lack the required strict inclusiveness of mathematical sets. Here I conclude that musicians, as all artists, are used to thinking outside the box. On the other hand, thinking relies on the mental presence of such boxes: on the quality of the interconnections between a variety of concepts, each clearly envisioned. It is precisely for this reason, because thinking without boxes is practically impossible, that I find it important to research these individually differing existing thought-models together.
Oscar van Dillen
Survey of ideas
nr | Super-supersets | Supersets | Music | Subsets | Sub-subsets | name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Silence – Sound (unintentional) | Patterned sound (unintentional) |
Music | Patterned sound/ Phrase? (intentional) | Sound/Tone (intentional) – Silence/Pause (intentional) | eric |
2 | Space | Sound Waves | Music | Son Cubano | Ibrahim Ferrer | sophie |
3 | Skill | Art-form | Music | Tones, sound, silence | Vibrations – Sound waves | hans |
4 | Culture | Sound | Music | Genres | Culture | brenn |
5 | Perception | Sound | Music | Style | Jazz | anna |
6 | Sound | Art | Music | Melody | Sound | filippos |
7 | Development | Art | Music | Man-made sounds communicating a certain feeling |
Vibrations in air | michiel |
8 | Peace | Art | Music | Sound | Soul | jawa |
9 | Talent | Knowledge | Music | Language | Art | evgenija |
10 | Means of communication | Language | Music | Feeling | Way to express feelings | simone |
11 | Sound(s) | World-view | Music | Music styles | Own sound | mark |
12 | Vibration | Harmony | Music | Art | Humanity | mehrad |
13 | Infinity | Social life | Music | Life | The Big Bang – atom | ghaeth |
14 | Science | Acquired | Music | Inborn | Emotion | emre |
15 | Vibrations | Sound | Music | Harmony and melody | Tones | danique |
16 | God | Human | Music | Instruments – Languages | Languages – Instruments | kibeom |
17 | Stimulus | Sound | Music | Song | Note | pim |
18 | Performance | Instrument | Music | Sound | Vibration | marloes |
19 | Culture | Art | Music | Genre | Jazz – Cooljazz – Bitches Brew Miles Davis | paul |
20 | Noise | Constructed sounds | Music | Phrases | Motives | agota |
21 | Sound | Vibrations | Music | Genre | Song | pim |
22 | World | Art | Music | Language | Inspire | igor |
23 | Sound | Harmony | Music | Jazz | Bebop | ricardo |
24 | Communication | Language | Music | Harmony | Tones | simon |
25 | Vibration | Motivation | Music | Songs | Measures or Beats | yiwen |
26 | Expression | Art | Music | Melody | Note | zygimantas |
27 | Unintended sound | Intended sound without feeling | Music | Sounding together (harmony) | Pitches and rhythms | simo |
28 | Expression | Art | Music | Compositions | Songs | wike |
29 | Communication | Arts | Music | Chords (harmony) | Notes (melody) | euripides |
28 | Sound | Tones/rhythm | Music | Emotion | Magic | eliando |
31 | Human | Expression of creativity | Music | Instrument and playing | Ears (human) | boye |
32 | Expression | Art | Music | Sounds | Rhythms | margi |
33 | World | Art | Music | Emotion | Experience | alex |
34 | World | Art | Music | Rock | Funkrock | lucas |
35 | Society | Art | Music | Sound | Fundamental with overtones | rumon |
36 | Culture | Art-form | Music | Musical instrument | French Horn | sophie |
37 | Thoughts | Feeling | Music | Singing | Ad lib | guillermo |
38 | Emotion | Composition | Music | Tool | Life | kees |
39 | Vibrations | Sound | Music | Passion | Emotion | koen |
40 | Logic/patterns | Language/ metalanguage/ metaphysics | Music | Pattern development with sound | Sound production in time | viktor |
41 | Humanity | Culture | Music | Melodic lines | Motives | priscilla |
42 | Creative expressions | Art | Music | Sounds | Notes | hans |
43 | Community | Art | Music | Expression | Meaning | zach |
44 | Enjoyment | Auditive enjoyment | Music | Sounds | Tones | sophie |
45 | Culture | Art | Music | Melody | Pitches | monta |
46 | Noise | Organized sounds | Music | Musical genres | Craft | davina |
47 | Culture | Art | Music | Harmony | Notes | sébastien |
48 | Intellect | Art | Music | Baroque music | 4 Seasons | yiannis |
49 | Culture | Sound | Music | Melody | Interval | lukasz |
50 | Feeling | Senses | Music | Singer | Scout | raquel |
51 | Culture | Art | Music | Sound | Expression | nehujaël |
52 | World | Arts | Music | Musical styles | Individual (emotional connection to music) | yannah |
53 | Enjoying | Connecting | Music | Feeling | Happiness | rianne |
54 | Emotion | Art | Music | Vibrations | Physics | martijn |
55 | Art | Entertainment | Music | Deliberately, consciously | Sound waves | david |
56 | Sound | Language | Music | Memory | Emotion | carolien |
57 | Art | Language | Music | Emotion | Instruments | mandy |
58 | Sound | Sound waves | Music | Emotion / improvisation | Communication | daan |
59 | Art | Language | Music | Feeling | Relaxation | evelijn |
60 | Culture | Art | Music | Sounds | Instruments, voice | wesley |
61 | Sense | Hearing | Music | Feeling | Reacting | domen |
62 | Culture | Personality | Music | Emotions | Feeling | ruben |
63 | Human expression | Art | Music | Emotion | Sound and rhythm | wies |
64 | Universal | Communication | Music | Music as therapy, music as expression | Music as emotion | esmeralda |
65 | Sound | Culture | Music | Theory | Human spirit | tin chi |
See also
- Students categorizing music 2012
- Outline of basic music theory
- IHMC Cmap Tools, free software for concept-mapping.