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It is important to take the time to go see performances and to participate in musical experiences. Participatory and Presentational music-making are both important in understanding all kinds of cultures and becoming more diverse as a citizen of the U.S. There is so much that can be learned from these experiences and it's good to take the time to be out of your comfort zone in music. Go see a symphony performance! Go sing karaoke in front of a large crowd! Participate in a group of people just sitting and singing on the sidewalk! These experiences will be totally worth your time and energy.

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What does our textbook have to say about presentational music? 

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What does our textbook have to say about presentational music? 

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“Presentational music is a field involving one group of people (the artists) providing music for another (the audience) in which there is pronounced artist-audience separation within face-to-face situations.” (Turino, pgs. 52-53)

“Here, group bonds are partially channeled through the presentation of performers rather than each member of the group’s focusing on each other directly through dancing and making musical sound together.” (Turino, pg. 62)

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The Dallas Symphony performing one of my favorite classical pieces, "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs The Rite of Spring

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The Dallas Symphony Orchestra performs Stravinsky's revolutionary work The Rite of Spring at Bravo! Vail Music Festival 2017. Music: Dallas Symphony Orchestra Jaap van Zweden, conductor Part One: The Adoration of the Earth Introduction - Dance of the Young Girls (excerpt)

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Attending the Opera or a Symphony is a great example of presentational music.

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With this form of music-making there is a clear audience and a clear performer where the audience is participating in the performance by only listening to what is being performed. The artists have the musical talents with a performance that is clearly planned out with an order to their songs. Success of this musical experience comes from the quality of the overall quality of the performance. The musical aspects are focused on the individual performer and with the composition being complex and full of variety in sounds, rhythms, meters and textures.

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What does our textbook have to say about participatory music?

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What does our textbook have to say about participatory music?

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“As compared with the other musical fields, participatory music making/dancing is the most democratic, the least formally competitive, and the least hierarchical. As such, participatory performance does not fit well within the broader cultural values of the capitalist-cosmopolitan formation, where competition and hierarchy are prominent and profit making is often a primary goal.” (Turnio, pg.35)

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A group of people singing around a camp fire

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One of my go-to karaoke songs

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dixie chicks cowboy take me away karaoke

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Dixie Chicks Cowboy Take Me Away Karaoke | Best Karaoke Versions

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Dixie Chicks Cowboy Take Me Away Karaoke | Best Karaoke Versions.

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With this form of music-making there is no clear audience-artist distinctions where everyone present in the moment is making music in some form. The participants are connected to one another in a musical experience through interacting with one another. Success of this experience all depends on how focused the participants are in the moment of making their music. The musical aspects are very repetative and consistent with focus on the whole of the performance not the individuals in the performance.