Voice to Text

For this task, I’m gonna talk briefly about music and how written music follows a very similar track that oral language does however music as a communication device is far less entrenched in society and culture than languages so then the comparison isn’t quite perfect, however, when scholars are examining language is learned and how music is learned they actually follow a very similar trajectory for example, you should when you’re learning a language as we’ve read this week as you’re approaching writing it down you are you are already fluent in it Similarly when learning music, we actually in the west have approached it the opposite way we start learning names and start learning intervals and start learning staff recognition before we can even sing a note in key or play to the steady beat and so when I was in university doing my undergrad, that was stress quite a bit is Learning music in the same way that one might learn a language because the pathways are very similar in the brain mind there are cultures that do kind of sound before what they call it speech before sound sound before rhythm sound before reading I guess is what it’s called. The one that I can think of off the top of my head is the Carnatic And Hindu cultures that’s north and south Indian music they learn to speak their rhythmic syllables. It’s very very complicated rhythmic tradition and they learn to speak their rhythm patterns before they even touch an instrument. I don’t believe they write anything down so it’s like an oral tradition, but it’s incredibly complex and it’s incredibly strict and so students have to master, speaking rhythmic syllables before they can even touch one of their instruments and that goes for percussion or string instruments as well similarly, when thinking about speaking language versus writing down a language and what gets lost in translation, we can also think about music and what gets lost in translation when reading a piece of music so in western music we write everything down we have a diet tonic scale meeting. We have 12 notes That are equally tuned equidistant tuning is something that’s actually very reason so it’s predecessor was the forte or the harp accord key was individually tuned so you would the key of C different than you tune the key of a flat because the intervals between the notes and their respective vibrations Were different so technically a piano is out of tune, but we’ve just agreed and accepted that it’s easier to have a piano then to take it apart and re-return it every time we want to plan a different key nevertheless, when you write down music in the western traditions, we write down dynamics and we write down instructions however, when you think back to Beethoven or Mozart or Bach these original composers we can still play their music note for note as it were however, are we actually playing it the way it was meant to sound for example how loud was forhow quiet was Piso at? What point did we start to take liberties and the technology of instruments how we’ve built violin the strings we use the reads that are used the brass and metal that is used the castings that are used for all these different instruments influence their sound how loud they can be quiet they can be the range of notes that can be played are all influenced by technology and so enclosing I would like to examine how technology in Music has a similar trajectory and influence and pattern as written technologies and text technologies.

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Reference from ETEC 511 “Media Convergence Module”