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15 Cards in this Set
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Ethnocentrism
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Judging music by its relationship to our own cultural experience.
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Musicologist
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Someone who studies the history of music.
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Music Theorist
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Someone who analyzes composition.
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Ethnomusicologist
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Someone who studies a culture's music
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Harmony
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Several notes occuring at the same time to form a chord.
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Folk Music
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Music created by amateurs for their own communities enjoyment.
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Popular Music
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Music created by professionals for mass audiences.
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Classical Music
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Music created by professionals, selling it is not as important as depth.
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Pitch
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The quality of a note that distinguishes a high note from a low note.
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Frequency
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The number of sound waves per second.
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Hertz
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The measurement of frequency.
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Interval
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The distance in pitch between any two notes.
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Octave
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The simplest ratio between two frequencies.
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Parallel Octaves
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Two identical melodies sung an octave apart.
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Tuning System
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When a musician decides what frequency to tune an instrument at.
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