How to Make Music part 1.
After listening to these experienced musicians play, and considering the very different ideas and feelings that they express, lets look at what they have in common in teaching us about how we can make music ourselves. Each performance takes place in a venue, (form the Latin Venire, to come [to]. To work, a venue needs two main things: a safe place for the musicians to perform, and a safe place for the audience to be. There needs to be rules applied and understood by each of these participating groups for the performance to be 'success-full'. Observe the barriers in front of the AC/DC concert, and the division between the place where the orchestra performs and its audience. The space is thus divided between the performer's area called the stage, and the area assigned to the audience, called the auditorium ,from the Latin auditorius 'a place for hearing'. Each setting, or context has its own conventions or rules as to how one is expected to behave, ( imagine the audience's reactions being swapped over from one concert to the other!); yet everybody present knows and respects the job that performers and the audience must do.
Likewise, we are going to divide the classroom (venue), into two sections. The performance space, (stage); and the auditorium , where the audience sits (and sometimes stands). Though performers and audience are seperate, they each have an important job to do; and as each group is drawn from the other, each student be learn what it is like to be on each side of the stage, and how to do each other's jobs.
Likewise, we are going to divide the classroom (venue), into two sections. The performance space, (stage); and the auditorium , where the audience sits (and sometimes stands). Though performers and audience are seperate, they each have an important job to do; and as each group is drawn from the other, each student be learn what it is like to be on each side of the stage, and how to do each other's jobs.