You are a director of a production being performed at a local civic theatre. You pick the script that you think would be best considering the surrounding city and begin to do an in-depth analysis of the script. While doing the analysis, you begin to develop a metaphor through which you see the production and your vision. This metaphor will help guide you in making future decisions in regards to all aspects of the production. This metaphor is best described as the production's __________.

We propose a music-culture model that is grounded in music as it is performed

Place yourself at a music event that moved you. At the center of the event is your experience of the music, sung and played by performers. Review the two diagrams, Figure 1-6, Elements of a musical performance, and Figure 1-7, A music-culture model. Note how the concentric circles in the two diagrams parallel each other. For example, the center of Fig. 1-6, the music, that is, the musical event itself, is parallel to the center of Fig. 1-7, the affective experience (music’s power to move). Explain how the ideas in the other three concentric circles of the two figures are related and parallel to each other. What will be an ideal response?

An acoustical quirk of nature in tuning called the “Pythagorean comma” was

compensated for by the use of

a. terraced dynamics b. equal temperament c. major and minor scales d. improvisation e. small orchestras