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41 Cards in this Set
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Alabado |
A religious song of praise, spanish/Mexican folk traditions |
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Folk Music |
Simple songs and instrumental pieces whose origins have been lost or forgotten |
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Hymns |
A religious verse set to music suitable for congressional singing |
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Ballads |
A folk song, strophic in form that tells a story |
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Corridos |
Story telling in song roots in mexico |
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Homophonic texture |
The texture in which a melodic is accompanied by choral harmony chordal |
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Chordal |
Homophonic texture |
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Pentatonic |
A five note scale within the range of an octave |
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Broadside |
A written ballad printed on a large sheet or in a set of sheets called a songster |
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Chanteys |
A folk song about sailors and the seas |
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Field hollers |
Loud rhythmically flexible emotionally expressive chants or cries sung by 1 voice |
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Shout or ring shout |
A lively dance preformed at religious services with shuffling but vigorous steps with singing religiously |
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Work song |
Song sung to relieve tension and regulate the movements of people working along/unison with others |
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Improvised |
The simultaneous invention and performance of music |
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Banjos |
String instruments derived from the African banjar |
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Drone |
A single note sounded continuously or repeated |
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Psalms |
150 inspiring versed found in the Old Testament of the bible |
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Psalm tunes |
Tuneful setting of the psalms in verse suitable for church singing |
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A cappella |
Unaccompanied chordal music |
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Psalter |
A collection of the psalms in metered and rhythm verse suitable for setting simple tunes |
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Bay Psalm Book |
The first book printed in America a psalter that first appeared in 1640 |
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Through composed |
A song form containing new music throughout as opposed to setting new text to the repetition as in a strophic form |
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Lining out |
Practice whereby each line of text is sung by a leader and echoed by the congregation |
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Singing school masters |
America's first composers |
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First new England school |
America's first composers lived in new England wrote music for practical purposes |
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Canon |
A polyphonic compositions in which all of the voices preform the same melody beginning at different tunes |
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Polyphinic |
Two or more melodic lines simultaneously combined |
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Round |
A circular canon repeated indefinitely |
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Fuding tune |
A song in two sections the first homophonic and the second polyphonic in texture |
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William billings |
Tanner by trade, singing school master. Made a book of tunes all of his own composition |
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Daniel Read |
Fuging tunes and first new England school of composers |
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Armonica (glass harmonica) |
A musical instrument invented by Ben Franklin, tunes wet glass that were rubbed to produce sound |
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Fife and drum corps |
An early band consisting of fifes and drums, which preformed for military and later for entertainment |
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Tomas Jefferson |
Famous statesman musical amateur and encouraged musical activities |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Did not believe America had artful music. Created the armonica. |
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Francis Hopkinson |
Concert music composer that had one of the first European style |
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Shape note notation |
Method that assigned a shape to the noted pitches ( fa so la ti do) placing them in the staff |
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The Sacred Harp |
Popular 19th century collection of hymns and spiritual songs |
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Spirituals |
Folklike religious song with simple tune |
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Henry Thacker Burleigh |
African American spiritual song singer and piano player of "nobody knows the trouble I've seen" |
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Lowell Mason |
Hymn writer and educator led movement to reform music in America. School provide reading music |
