https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit closesness en-us 2017-11-13 02:37:12 UTC 2017-11-13 03:36:37 UTC hello@padlet.com isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206078389 Ratliff starts off this chapter by letting us know what those who study music usually pay attention to: contrast. He thinks the concept of closeness is not really paid attention to because it just seems to "together" and as if it should be that way; it's meant to be. He defines closeness as, "...two or more musicians, or musical elements, acting in the purest coordination..." (161). He says that people like contrasts because they are able to measure them. 
I can totally understand what he is saying and I would have to say that I have to agree. We just naturally accept sounds that seem as if they are alike. ]]> 2017-11-13 02:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206078389 isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206081175 Ratliff is trying to say that this concept takes time to create. It cannot be thrown together by just anyone. It takes place between two musicians who have an understanding of each other's musical style and an understanding for music as a whole. ]]> 2017-11-13 03:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206081175 isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206082365 Im this song you can hear how the two voices seem like one with the music in the back. They seem as if they belong together. They harmonize and I can see why Ratliff says "close-harmony can be exhausting to the ear" because it did feel that way while I was listening to it. He says that this song in particular is the type of music that mexican workers in California would have been familiar with at that time. The closeness of the musicians helped to achieve this goal. ]]> 2017-11-13 03:17:19 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206082365 isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206083514 Ratliff is saying that the musicians have to have a special type of bond in order to create the music they do. ]]> 2017-11-13 03:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206083514 isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206084174 This song there is a lot of closeness. A lot of harmonizing. Tons of it. It's huge. The voices sound as if they are one unified sound.]]> 2017-11-13 03:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206084174 isabellanieves https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206085022 I definitely agree with Ratliff and what he is saying. I think we pay more attention to music with contrasts in it rather than music that sounds unified and close together. We notice the difference in one more than the other.]]> 2017-11-13 03:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/isabellanieves/o7ruig2s2tit/wish/206085022