I’d say, not quite. Conventional songs will have a distinction between verse (which tends to tell, and move on, a story) and refrain (which tends to sum up the story, or a moral.
But what you describe for Beethoven’s 5th is a much more complex process of development: that four-note motif keeps coming back through every movement of the symphony, forwards, backwards, slow, fast, solemn march and elegant minuet, (try counting them) - until the last movement blazes with positivity, by contrast with the doomy foreboding of the opening theme.
Similarly, classical music forms bat themes and bits of themes and motifs between the different instruments, in all sorts of ways, but they’re much more complex than what I understand by “call and response” - to me, that implies something relatively static and repetitive with little or no development or resolution.
Yeah, that’s a type of call and response and is pretty common in Western music. In my early music classes, we were often given, say, four bars of a melody and a “question” and we’d have to come up with a four-bar “answer” to it. Like take “Ode to Joy”. You have four bars of an initial motif and then you have it repeat with the “answer” just changing the last bar so the melody goes down and sounds like it’s finished a musical sentence.
We’ve had some big winds here and I recently tracked down a piece of vinyl window trim that was flapping an unsteady, kazooy honk just one of those birthday coil whistles. It really sounded like someone was in there, creepy AF.
I play something similar for sleepy-time, usually found by searching for “binaural” which is silly, since I’m listening on my (single output) phone, and the whole highly scientific theory requires two speakers.
I don’t care about the “science” of binaural music. I just want something without lyrics or a catchy melody (that will get stuck in my head) but just a weeee bit more than simple white noise.
Aleatoric music is music that involves some degree of randomness. John Cage wrote a lot of aleatory; one piece involved turning the volume and tuning dials of several radios, the precise timing and degree of which were outlined in the “score”. What came out of the radios would be different every time. I’ve done more straightforwardly musical aleatory that involves chorus singers repeating a melody at varying tempos, up to the individual singer.
It doesn’t necessarily lack development or harmonic resolution, nor is it that general a term.
I disagree. I think that’s one type of music, but I think “Western Music” has much more variety than you’d expect.
Though maybe we’d like it to be easier to categorize…
Conventional songs will have a distinction between verse (which tends to tell, and move on, a story) and refrain (which tends to sum up the story, or a moral.
What the OP means (I think) is not Call and Response but Question and Answer, more properly called Antecedent and Consequent. I applies to melodic phrases and is perfectly explained here: https://youtube.com/shorts/qLkhlbpqNzY?si=JJ4sdng_WMT2L4Nd
