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117 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
infant adaptation to srroundings |
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Enculturation |
Combination of cultures |
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Acculturation |
taking things from environment and gradually making them part of oneself |
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Appropriation |
When one culture takes a tradition from another culture |
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Eurocentric |
looking at another culture from your culture's view |
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Intra-cultural exchange |
exchanging ideas within same culture |
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Inter-cultural exchange |
sharing ideas with different cultures |
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Intra-cultural exchange |
Sharing ideas within the same culture |
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Organology |
study of instruments |
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Aerophones |
saxophone, flute, clarinet |
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Chordophones |
Strings |
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Membranophones |
drums |
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Idiophones |
vibrations created by bidy |
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Electronophones |
vibrations passed through loudspeaker |
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Frequency |
pitch
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Amplitude |
volume |
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Spectrum |
timbre |
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Rhythm |
series of events we hear, relationship in time |
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Meter |
repeating pattern |
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Rubato |
lack of meter
free rhythm
usually part of intro |
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Melody |
lead voice or instrument |
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Scale |
series of notes
culture dependent |
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Ornamentation |
decoraded notes |
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Syllabic |
separate note for every syllable |
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Mellismatic |
singing 2 or more notes for every syllable |
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Harmony |
richness of sound chord |
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Texture |
how lines relate to each other |
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Monophony |
single line, voice, playing exact same melody |
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Heterophony |
2 or more individuals performing same melody, different interpretations |
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Polyphony |
2 or more completely different melodies that interlock to produce greater sound |
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Form |
Arrangement of sound
How it starts or ends |
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Eurocentric bias |
bias from Eurocentric culture |
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Role of music in Native american culture |
link to spiritual world
Spiritual power |
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Efficacy |
religious function carry out duty |
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Musical characteristics of Native American Music |
short repitition, no direct meaning, specific vacables, partition, pentatonic scales 2-6 melodies |
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Musical instruments of Native American Culture |
Drums, rattles, flutes |
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Oral Culture |
things retained by memory and spread by word of mouth |
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Plains Indian Style |
intertribal, pow wow, fancy dance, honor beats |
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Southwestern Indian Style |
double headed drum, long short beat: de-dum, leaps to higher pitch, more angular |
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Northwest Pacific indian Style |
angulating melodies, darker rounder sound, often associated with potlatch exchanging gifts songs
performance=heirarchy |
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Trail of Tears |
Forced movement of all indian that had nothing in common from east Oklahoma to Florida |
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Ghost Dance |
awakening of the dead and return to traditional ways |
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Peyote Cult |
Native American Church |
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Plainsong |
heterophonic
limited songs |
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Psalm book |
collection of Hymns
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Bay Psalm Book |
first Psalm book in US |
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Psalm Meter |
common, long, and short |
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Praise |
rural working class |
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Edification |
uplift, trained quires, separation, pleases senses
New England/Urban areas |
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Lining out |
Praise
Preacher sings, Congregation repeats |
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Singing schools
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masters in New England
teaching singing lessons, voice production, more challenging music to sing |
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William Billings
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Self-taught singer and sing teacher
New England Psalm Singer: presales
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Shape Notes |
notes with different shapes
diamond, square, triangle |
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Sacred Harp |
emphasis on performance, clean sound, higher power |
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Lowell Mason |
pioneer
established 1st music education program |
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Lowell Mason teaching system |
Teach children to sing before reading music
Master one thin, then can move on to the next
Learn with experience |
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Slave Trade |
worldwide activity, although most came to new world
Slaves stripped of material culture |
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African American Music traits |
sing through all activities |
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Call & Response |
leader and chorus |
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Polyrhythms |
Use of two or more rhythms |
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African American vocal style |
rough, nasal bends |
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The Great awakenings |
outdoor religious gatherings, rural areas, gathering of both clack and white class citizens |
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Richard Allen |
episcopal AA institution
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Wandering refrains |
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Wandering refrains |
2 line phrase inserted into any song to extend song |
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Ballads |
narrative songs
war, death, love, satire |
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Stanza |
4-5 lines |
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Strophic text |
repeating but different lyrics
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Imported Ballad |
came from British Isles |
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Naturalized |
text changed to reflect more lacal |
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Native |
newly composed ballads in US |
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Broadside Ballad |
common drug in revolutionary war
used for propoganda or satire |
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Murder Ballads |
involved earth trio of events |
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Fancis James Child |
collected ballads
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Child Ballads |
literary criteria
The english and scottish popular ballads |
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Francis James Child |
collected ballads |
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Olive Campbell |
collected music in different variations from Appalachians
Folk songs of the southern appalachians |
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John ans Alan Lomax |
first folk directors |
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19th century audiences |
yelling, screaming, drinking |
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Minstrelsy |
most important form of music in US, complex history |
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Thomas "Daddy" Rice |
black stage man
white man who applied blackface |
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Blackface "blacking up" |
white people acting black |
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Ethiopian melodies |
plantation songs |
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Zip Coon |
Urban satire |
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Jim Crow |
character that falsely portrayed black people |
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Virginia Minstrels |
troop of irish americans |
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Dan Emmett |
led 1st minstrel show
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Minstrel ensemble |
fiddle, banjo, tambourine, bones |
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Influence on public image of African Americans |
especially in the north, some audiences didn't realize performers were white
false accusations |
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Minstrel show |
set structure starting with minstrel line, acts, group number |
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Interlocuter |
jokes with performers |
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Olio |
special number |
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Walk around final |
short act play about plantation life |
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Cakewalk |
walk around dance
parody of white gatherings |
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Master Juba (William Henry Lane) |
Black actors toured US throughout europe |
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Georgia Minstrels |
1st all african american group
undergoing stereotypes |
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James Bland |
"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny |
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Legacy of Minstrels |
growing fascination |
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Stephen Foster |
irish american singer, songwriter |
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Parlor songs |
sentimental irish ballads |
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Christy Minstrels |
Stephen foster gave all his credit to them, then took it back when he got popular |
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Hutchinson Family |
against working for emancipation and slavery |
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Revolutionary War bands |
small ensembles |
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Fife and Drum |
single troop movements |
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Harmoniemusik |
pairs of woodwinds for dinners, or formal gatherinegs |
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Patrick Gilmore |
formed gilmore band
National Peace Jubilee of 1869
music has power |
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John Philip Sousa |
head of US marine band
formed Sousa band, that had large repitwar
the washington post
Stars and stripes forever
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Edison phonograph |
cylinder tube that recorded music |
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Gramophone |
make records and mass produced |
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College marching bands |
educational, football games, parades |
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Wind ensemble |
lots of written music |
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African AMerica band traditions |
strong, antebellum music |
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Francis Johnson |
READ STANDARD AND IMPROVISOR
written and oral tradition |
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New Orleans Brass Bands |
march and improvise
Jazz roots came from here |
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Vaudeville |
most popular form of theatre |
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Tin Pan Alley |
played on demographic tests |
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Chrales K Harris |
After the Ball |
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GMUS203 |
Connell |