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Discuss the material culture of music. Define and give examples.
 
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Discuss the meaning of the phrase transmission in music-culture.
 
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Answer to Question 1

 Material culture of music is one of the four components of a music-culture.
 Material culture refers to the material objects that people in a culture produce.
 Examples of objects from the material culture of music include musical instruments, pictures of or documents about instruments and music of past times, music scores or sheet music, and music recorded and preserved through electronic media (CDs, television, computers, and so on).

Answer to Question 2

 Transmission in music-culture refers to how music is learned and transmitted from person to person or from one generation to the next.
 Some music-cultures transmit music through apprenticeships.
 Transmission is part of repertories of music, which is concerned with the music itself.



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