TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynn Whidden
AU  - Paul Shore
PY  - 2018
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2296-164X
SN  - 9781788744942
TI  - Environment Matters
T2  - Why Song Sounds the Way It Does
DO  - 10.3726/b14147
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057151
N2  - Why does human music sound the way it does? To better understand this, the authors look at the human and even animal ability for mimicry, at existing acoustic niches and introduce the idea of at least three habitats for music. Is there a unified sound quality for music created indoors, for song sung outdoors, and for music produced with electric signals?  Whidden and Shore seek answers from music ethnography, from the closed space of medieval churches, from Gothic architecture, from particular buildings such as the Prague Estates Theatre and from their own experience and that of others in the contemporary electronic music environment. Drawing on fieldwork, archival materials and media studies research, they propose a model that will inspire scholars to explore human music in its rightful and important place in the natural world.
KW  - music, sound habitats, song
LA  - English
ER  -