Music Midterm

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Relationship between music and time

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Rhythm

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specific rhythmic framework (3/4, 4/4 for example)

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Meter

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The speed at which a piece is played

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Tempo

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Tone created by the frequency of vibration, within a vibrating body

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Pitch

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A succession of multiple pitches

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Melody

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A melody that moves in gradual or stepwise motion

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Conjunct Melody

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A melody that moves in skips

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Disjunct Melody

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Simultaneous sounding of multiple notes

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Chord

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Structure and relation of chords and melody

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Harmony

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Tone color or character

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Timbre

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How musical lines relate to each other

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Texture

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Single line

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Monophony

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One line predominates

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Homophony

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Multiple interpretations of the same melody

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Heterophony

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Interaction of two or more voices, call and response

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Antiphony

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Two or more independent lines

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Polyphony

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Variations in volume

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Dynamics

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To get louder

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Crescendo

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To get softer

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Decrescendo

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Organizational structure in a piece of music

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Form

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The arrangement of musical instruments

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Instrumentation

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Complete musical idea

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Phrase

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Syllables that have no linguistic meaning - used for a variety of timbre

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Vocables

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Zuni Indians

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Southwest - Navajo/Cherokee

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Plains Indians

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Central Northwest - Sioux

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Eastern Woodlands Indians

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Northeast - Iriquois

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General African Traits (as shown by the Ghana Postal Workers)

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Diatonic melodies (later we see pentatonic scales)
Polyrhythm - use of multiple rhythms simultaneously
Repitition and improvisation
Willingness to integrate other music cultures
Group participation
Music learned through enculturation - been learning it since you were little
Music used in everyday life

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General African American Traits

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Sense of community and participation
Learning primarily throuh enculturation and informal apprenticships
Melismatic singing - stretching one syllable over many pitches
Pitch content - pentatonic with added chromatic tones and inflections (blue-note tones in between the notes found on the piano)
Rhythm - plays large role despite the lack of drums
Adaptation of material culture - almost anything can be an instrument - instruments taken from dominant culture are used in unique ways
Timbre - tendency towards unique vocal and intrumental timbre with emphasis on "soul or the truth"
Form - primarliy forms are short and repetitive - also, borrowing of forms form protestant tradition
Call and response - antiphony
High context culture - things are implied more often than said

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Mande main instrument

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String instruments (KORA)

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Chunnig

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refers to not only the tuning but also the timbre