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MUSI20150 Music And Health University of Melbourne
MUSIC AND HEALTH WEEK 1
Lecture
Understanding health
NONE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE
Biomedical Model – absence of disease and functioning well, organs good, getting out of
bed without abnormality
Rights based – state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, enjoyment
fundamental right of every human being (WHO, 1948)
Health promotion – a resource of every day life, not the object of living, positive concept
emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities (Ottawa Charter,
1986)
Relational – health is active between and within people, mutual care and co-existance, and
a set of personal qualifications for participation (Sige 2003)
Idea from positive psychology, transition from discourse of health particularly mental health
Martin Seligman – looking at health by looking at people in optimum, and how we do that
school of positive psychology is born, basic idea, someone who is working at high health has a
life that is good, pleasant and meaningful = positive psychology
Wellbeing – more intangible, objective or subjective
Economically – gdp, benefits, employment, education (objective)
Feeling? How do you think you are? (subjective)
OECD organisation economic cooperation and development look at global level at 36
different country, how is life for people, can rank the aspects of life in terms of your priority
levels, objective and subjective combined.
Quiz – 5 hours to complete it, based on lecture content, only available for the week, use safari
What is music?
Subjective
We think of music as an object (eg. Left my music at home)
Notes on a page? Score, notes? CD, phone, ipod, spotify playlist, device used?
Music artifacts parafenalia of music, but BROADER
Made up of elements,
– Melody (tune)
– Rhythm (beat)
– Harmony (notes go together)
– Lyrics
– Volume (loud soft)
– Pitch (high low)
– Tempo
– Form
– Timbre
– Instrumentation
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