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Culture

infant adaptation to srroundings

Enculturation

Combination of cultures

Acculturation

taking things from environment and gradually making them part of oneself

Appropriation

When one culture takes a tradition from another culture

Eurocentric

looking at another culture from your culture's view

Intra-cultural exchange

exchanging ideas within same culture

Inter-cultural exchange

sharing ideas with different cultures

Intra-cultural exchange

Sharing ideas within the same culture

Organology

study of instruments

Aerophones

saxophone, flute, clarinet

Chordophones

Strings

Membranophones

drums

Idiophones

vibrations created by bidy

Electronophones

vibrations passed through loudspeaker

Frequency

pitch


Amplitude

volume

Spectrum

timbre

Rhythm

series of events we hear, relationship in time

Meter

repeating pattern

Rubato

lack of meter



free rhythm



usually part of intro

Melody

lead voice or instrument

Scale

series of notes



culture dependent

Ornamentation

decoraded notes

Syllabic

separate note for every syllable

Mellismatic

singing 2 or more notes for every syllable

Harmony

richness of sound chord

Texture

how lines relate to each other

Monophony

single line, voice, playing exact same melody

Heterophony

2 or more individuals performing same melody, different interpretations

Polyphony

2 or more completely different melodies that interlock to produce greater sound

Form

Arrangement of sound



How it starts or ends

Eurocentric bias

bias from Eurocentric culture

Role of music in Native american culture

link to spiritual world



Spiritual power

Efficacy

religious function carry out duty

Musical characteristics of Native American Music

short repitition, no direct meaning, specific vacables, partition, pentatonic scales 2-6 melodies

Musical instruments of Native American Culture

Drums, rattles, flutes

Oral Culture

things retained by memory and spread by word of mouth

Plains Indian Style

intertribal, pow wow, fancy dance, honor beats

Southwestern Indian Style

double headed drum, long short beat: de-dum, leaps to higher pitch, more angular

Northwest Pacific indian Style

angulating melodies, darker rounder sound, often associated with potlatch exchanging gifts songs



performance=heirarchy

Trail of Tears

Forced movement of all indian that had nothing in common from east Oklahoma to Florida

Ghost Dance

awakening of the dead and return to traditional ways

Peyote Cult

Native American Church

Plainsong

heterophonic



limited songs

Psalm book

collection of Hymns


Bay Psalm Book

first Psalm book in US

Psalm Meter

common, long, and short

Praise

rural working class

Edification

uplift, trained quires, separation, pleases senses



New England/Urban areas

Lining out

Praise



Preacher sings, Congregation repeats

Singing schools


masters in New England



teaching singing lessons, voice production, more challenging music to sing

William Billings


Self-taught singer and sing teacher



New England Psalm Singer: presales



Shape Notes

notes with different shapes



diamond, square, triangle

Sacred Harp

emphasis on performance, clean sound, higher power

Lowell Mason

pioneer



established 1st music education program

Lowell Mason teaching system

Teach children to sing before reading music



Master one thin, then can move on to the next



Learn with experience

Slave Trade

worldwide activity, although most came to new world



Slaves stripped of material culture

African American Music traits

sing through all activities

Call & Response

leader and chorus

Polyrhythms

Use of two or more rhythms

African American vocal style

rough, nasal bends

The Great awakenings

outdoor religious gatherings, rural areas, gathering of both clack and white class citizens

Richard Allen

episcopal AA institution



African Methodist Episcopal Church



Wandering refrains

Wandering refrains

2 line phrase inserted into any song to extend song

Ballads

narrative songs



war, death, love, satire

Stanza

4-5 lines

Strophic text

repeating but different lyrics


Imported Ballad

came from British Isles

Naturalized

text changed to reflect more lacal

Native

newly composed ballads in US

Broadside Ballad

common drug in revolutionary war



used for propoganda or satire

Murder Ballads

involved earth trio of events

Fancis James Child

collected ballads



Child Ballads

literary criteria



The english and scottish popular ballads

Francis James Child

collected ballads

Olive Campbell

collected music in different variations from Appalachians



Folk songs of the southern appalachians

John ans Alan Lomax

first folk directors

19th century audiences

yelling, screaming, drinking

Minstrelsy

most important form of music in US, complex history

Thomas "Daddy" Rice

black stage man



white man who applied blackface

Blackface "blacking up"

white people acting black

Ethiopian melodies

plantation songs

Zip Coon

Urban satire

Jim Crow

character that falsely portrayed black people

Virginia Minstrels

troop of irish americans

Dan Emmett

led 1st minstrel show



Minstrel ensemble

fiddle, banjo, tambourine, bones

Influence on public image of African Americans

especially in the north, some audiences didn't realize performers were white



false accusations

Minstrel show

set structure starting with minstrel line, acts, group number

Interlocuter

jokes with performers

Olio

special number

Walk around final

short act play about plantation life

Cakewalk

walk around dance



parody of white gatherings

Master Juba (William Henry Lane)

Black actors toured US throughout europe

Georgia Minstrels

1st all african american group



undergoing stereotypes

James Bland

"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

Legacy of Minstrels

growing fascination

Stephen Foster

irish american singer, songwriter

Parlor songs

sentimental irish ballads

Christy Minstrels

Stephen foster gave all his credit to them, then took it back when he got popular

Hutchinson Family

against working for emancipation and slavery

Revolutionary War bands

small ensembles

Fife and Drum

single troop movements

Harmoniemusik

pairs of woodwinds for dinners, or formal gatherinegs

Patrick Gilmore

formed gilmore band



National Peace Jubilee of 1869



music has power

John Philip Sousa

head of US marine band



formed Sousa band, that had large repitwar



the washington post



Stars and stripes forever



Edison phonograph

cylinder tube that recorded music

Gramophone

make records and mass produced

College marching bands

educational, football games, parades

Wind ensemble

lots of written music

African AMerica band traditions

strong, antebellum music

Francis Johnson

READ STANDARD AND IMPROVISOR



written and oral tradition

New Orleans Brass Bands

march and improvise



Jazz roots came from here

Vaudeville

most popular form of theatre

Tin Pan Alley

played on demographic tests

Chrales K Harris

After the Ball

GMUS203

Connell