3Towards Television a Visual And Education Culture
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things to listen to that correspond to their needs and are akin to what they spontaneously attempt in whatever environment they find themselves,
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that just by the formed criteria classified and immediately a instruments,
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that by examining the field of musical sounds charted and organized at first with full responsiveness to its nature and attributes and then, via notations, through visual means, they can substitute for some temporal data a spatial organization susceptible of increased effectiveness. (Because a notation system is permanent, it can serve again, while sounds unrecorded are lost.)
activity of listening, they have that are innerly tested and can be used to recognize whole arsenal of man-made
RHYTHMS AND MOVEMENTS.
Here we shall use a mixed way of presenting the material. We shall have on the screen audiences of children filmed while they practice the exercises that the programs offer, our expectation being that the children at home will be inspired to go through similar movements. In thinking about the substance of these programs, we must distinguish rhythm from meter and beat. The first is the response of the totality of the fluid content of our soma to the totality of the continuous change of the energy that stretches over the whole duration of any melody. Rhythm is a temporal attribute of music. Meter and beat, on the other hand, is a regular pulsation imposed on time. Beat is the superimposed energy variation that modulates rhythms by creating nodes upon the continuum of time, showing that it can be structured in
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