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34 Cards in this Set
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Chorodophones |
instruments with strings Ex: guitar, bass, harp, string quartet, piano |
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Idiophones |
Any percussion that doesn't have a membrane ex: rattles, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, scraper/ rasp |
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membranophone |
drums |
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aerophone |
wind instrument ex: flute, trumpet, clarinet, whistles |
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difference between vocables and words sung in a song? |
vocables do not have a dictionary definition |
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three categories of music |
traditional: must be played for two generations to be condsidered traditional
contemporary- does not have any traditional influence
blend- aka "syncratic" |
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what does Pan stand for |
presence across nation |
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why were there pan movments |
because a group of people were fighting for a cause/rights |
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what does intertribal mean? |
more than one nation coming together |
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what is performative tradition |
the way in which info is perceived |
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performative tradition replaces |
oral tradition |
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nonwestern music |
does not have influence from europe |
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vibrato |
wavering of pitch |
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pulsation |
emphasizing the beat |
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tempo |
the speed of the music |
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unison |
everyone sings the same notes |
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interval |
has to have at least two notes. the distance between these notes |
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dynamics |
how loud or soft something is (the volume) |
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instrumentation |
the list of all the instruments you hear in a piece |
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accent |
twice as loud as surroundings. exciting and loud pulsating beat |
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falsetto |
false voice-past your vocal range |
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diminuendo |
the music gets softer |
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crescendo |
the music starts soft and then gets louder |
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repertoire |
the collection of music you know how to perform |
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aesthetics of music |
when is a song beautiful |
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contexts for music |
when music should be performed and who is allowed to play that music |
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social organization of music |
how is the actual musician viewed in that society? ex: ou choir vs beyonce |
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style |
actual description of the sound of the music. includes pitch elements, time elements, timbre elements, sound intensity |
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genres |
words associated with a specific style of music to give us an idea of what we are listening to |
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texts |
words to the song, info that text gives you is language |
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composition |
how the music is composed |
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transmission |
similar to composition but focuses more on the performers than the composers. how the music is learned and transmitted from one person or generation to the next |
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movement |
two categories: how the musicians are moving and how the audience moves |
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material culture of music |
anything physical that you need to perform the music (clothing included) |
