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35 Cards in this Set
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Ethnomusicolgist
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a person who studies music within its contemporary cultural context.
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Timbre
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the tone quality of "color" of a musical instrument.
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Medium
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the object that produces a sound
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Pitch
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a tone determined by its frequency level
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Tunning System
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the pithces common to a particular music tradition
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Scale
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the pitches used in a particular performance arranged in order
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Interval
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the difference between two pitches
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Range
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all the pitches that a voice or instruments can potentially produce
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Melody
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an organized succession of pitches forming a musical idea
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Melodic Contour
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the general direction of a melody
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Ornamentation
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an embellishment or decoration of the melody
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Text Setting
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the rhythmic relationship of words to melody
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syllabic
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one pitch per syllable
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Melismatic
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several pitches per syllable
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Rythm
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the relationship of durations
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Beat
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a regular pulsation
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Accent
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an emphasized beat
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Tempo
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the relative rate of speed of the beat
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Meter
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a system of grouping beats into individual units
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Free Rythm
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music with no regular pulsation
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Rythmic Density
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the quanity of notes between periodic accents or over a specific unit of time
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Phonic Structure
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the organizational relationship between or among musical sounds
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Monophony
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a single line of music
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Polyphony
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multiple lines of music
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Homophony
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multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea
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Independent Polyphony
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two or more lines of music expressing independent musical lines
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Hetrophony
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multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
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Dynamics
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the volume of a musical sound
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Form
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the underlying temporal structure of a musical performance
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Octave
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a note an octave up is vibrating twice as fast as the prior octave
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What are the four categories of the Sachs-Hornbostal system to classify musical instruments?
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aerophones, chordophones, idiophones, and membranophones
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What is a aerophone?
What are examples of an aerophone? |
instruments that require air to produce sound. Flutes, reeds and trumpets.
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What is a chordophone?
What are examples of chordophones? |
instruments that have strings. lutes, zithers, harps, and lyres.
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What is a idiophone?
What are examples of idiophones? |
instuments that themselves produce sound. Rattles, bells, and other procussion
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What is a membranophone?
What are examples of membranophones? |
use a vibrating stretched membrane to produce sound. Drums.
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