Music Of The World's People Midterm

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Ethnomusicology

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scientific study of music

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Johan and Alan Lomax

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father and son who did field recordings in the south

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Field recordings

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coarse, unpracticed, genuine, unprofessional

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Call and response

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a leader sings a line and everyone else responds

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ragtime

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type of syncopated march that was a precursor to jazz 1890's

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Scott Joplin

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biggest writer of ragtime

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Gospel

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music that helped to contribute to jazz, relgious

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Dixieland jazz

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early jazz, New Orleands, march oriented

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12 bar blues

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AAB lyrical pattern

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Lead sheet notation

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looks like sheet music but can be improvised upon

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Fake book

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collection of jazz standards and notations, skeletons of music, illegal

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Kora

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big stringed instrument, bridge harp of Aftrican tribe of Mande played by the Jali,

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Mbira

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thumb piano, lower notes in the middle, higher notes on the outside

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Marimba

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looks like a xylophone, played with softer mallets

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Highlife

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style of Afro pop with a Latin feel, sax and bass, simple, laid back

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Juju

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same concept as palm wine, except electrified and lots of drums

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Palm wine

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interlocking hockets played on acoustic guitar

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King Sunny Ade

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famous juju player

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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singing group from South Africa in 1980's that spread Afro-pop in the U.S, associated with Paul Simon

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Ostinato

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short bass line that repeates

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Hocket

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same thing as interlocking rhythm except with melodies

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Interlocking rhythms

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many small rhythms put together to make much more complex rhythm

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Jali

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oral historian, social critic of Mande tribe

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BaAka

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tribe in South Africa known as pigmes, no social structure, music is vocal

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Mande

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tribe in West Africa, 2 classes for socail structure, working class and professional class

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Ewe

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interlocking rhythms, call and response, mucis of drum ensembles, Mostly in Ghana, call and response

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Water Drums

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clay pot half filled with H20, used during Peyote ceremony, intense sound

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The rise

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change in intensity or notes used in Califonia Yuman tride

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Voacables

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nonsense syllables sung in songs

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49 songs

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informal, sung at pow wows, include English words

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Incomplete repetition

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certain things repeat in the song, but they are not repeated in exactly the same way throughout the song.

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Powwow

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tribes come together to have sing, music competitions, and celebrate

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Peyote Ceremony

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ceremony that takes course over an entire night, put together by the Native American Church

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Native American Church

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performs Peyote Ceremony

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Ghost Dance

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thought messiah would come to restore things to the way they were before the white man, combines Christianity

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Enemyway ceremony

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healing for when someone returns from war; 3 days; participants divided into 2 camps

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Nightway ceremony

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physical or emotional healing ceremeony

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He-ne-yo-we

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used many times in water drum music, similiar to amen

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Waila

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chicken scratch, sounds like Mexico music

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California-Yuman

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low for a long time followed by a rise; relaxed

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Plains

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starts high then goes low; singing competiitions at powwows

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Great Basin

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uses short phrases AABBCCDD exactly repeated

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Nortwest Coast

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flute; harmony; choral singing

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Athabascan

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sung on the beat; nasal

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Eastern

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call and response

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Pipa

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a lute, stringed instrument w/ a neck; 4 strings

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Qin

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7 strings, scholarly music, educated class

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Erhu

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sounds like a violin, 2 strings, sound box is small

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Xiao

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an end blown bamboo flute

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Pentatonic scale

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a collection of pitches using just the black notes on the piano

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Songs for the masses

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songs that promote a political agenda for the Communist party, Mao

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Jiangnan sizhu

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teahouse music in Beijing

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Programmatic music

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trying to tell a story (swan song)

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Heterophony

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instruments are playing the same basic music melody but decorating it in different ways

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Cui Jian

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rock star; Bob Dylan of China; criticized govn't and people

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Tuvan throat singing

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manipulating throat to hear only overtones

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Koto

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like qin, long board w/ strings across it, each string is plucked by a bridge

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Shamisen

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3 strings, sounds like a banjo, big triangular pick

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Biwa

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pear shaped lute, couse to pipa

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Shakuhachi

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flute, meditation, breath control

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Hichiriki

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double reed, loud, nasal sound

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Sho

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free-reed mouth organ, Japan, plays high shimmering notes

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Kabuki

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type of Japanese drama that developed in 19th century; colorful costumes, painted faces

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Noh

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old, traditional theater, very slow

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Bunraku

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puppet theater, humor in plot

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Butoh

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in rxn to bomb; slow; grotesque;

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Gagaku

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world's oldest orchestra music; 2 types Kangen, bugaku

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Shinto

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a religion, worships animals

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Jo-ha-kyu

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beginning,middle, end

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Mikagura

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ritual music for Shinto ceremony

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Matsuri-bayashi

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Shinto ceremonial music

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Minyo

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generic name for folk music in Japan

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Yo-pentatonic

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black notes on piano, used in Minyo musci

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In-pentatonic

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first black note , then half note, used in koto