World Music Test #1

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Duration

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(Rhythm) - How long or short a tone is

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Frequency

Back 2

(pitch)- how high or low a tone is

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Amplitude

Back 3

(dynamics)- how loud or soft tones are

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Timbre

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(tone color)- actual sound quality, what they sound like

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Beat

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the lengths of different notes are organized in relation to a steady, underlying pulse

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Subdivision

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when there is more than 1 note per beat in a piece of music

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Duple Subdivision

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a stream of 8th notes played against a steady quarter note

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Triple Subdivision

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each individual beat is divided into 2 smaller, evenly spaced rhythmic units

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Measure

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a group of beats

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Meter

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the number if beats in a measure

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Duple

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measures of 2

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Triple

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measures of 3

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Syncopation

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an accented note that falls between the beats

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Tempo

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rate at which the beats pass in music

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Determinate

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tones that can be labeled with a letter name. tones played or sung in instruments like piano, guitar, violin of flute.

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Indeterminate

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Tones that cant be identified, like shakers, cymbals and triangles

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Melody

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a sequence of pitches that unfolds

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Range

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the different notes that a song has in it, from low to high

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Contour

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how the sound wave curves, the shape of the sound

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Scale

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an ascending and/or descending series of notes of different pitch.

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Chromatic scale

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playing all 12 notes in sequence from low to high or from high to low

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Octave

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a series of 8 notes that are satisfying to the ear

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Major

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can be produced with the white keys only, starting on the pitch C

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Minor

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can be produced with the black keys as well

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Blues scale

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mix of all scales. Starts off on pitch C includes 6 pitches- C, Eb, F, F#,G,Bb

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Microtones

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usually found in middle eastern music. All the tones found in between the letters

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Chord

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a group of 2 or more notes of different pitches played together

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Harmony

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a cord that makes sense within the context of its musical style

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Instrument classification

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horsbostel sachs

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Chordophones

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instruments with stretched string

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lyre

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Strings attached to crossbar by two posts, parallel to resonator at base

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lutes

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Strings run parallel to body and resonator, which is affixed on one side

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zither

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Strings run parallel to the sound board or resonator

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harp

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Strings attach to resonator perpendicularly

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Aerophones

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instruments that you blow through to make noise

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Types of Chordophones

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Lutes, Lyres, zithers, harps

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Types of Aerophones

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flutes, single reeds, double reeds, buzzed lip

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Membranophones

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Drums, any instrument with stretched skin over a resonator

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Idiophones

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any instrument that vibrates itself to create noise, hit it, or rub something against it

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Lamellophone

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mbira

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Electrophones

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electronic instruments

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Amplification

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using a speaker to amplify sound of an instrument, suing cables – on electric guitar the pickups transmit sound to amplifier.

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Digital synthesis

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programs allow you to create sound solely using digital equipment such as synthesizers.

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Digital sampling

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just like what kanye west does, taking a sample of another song and mixing it In with your own composition

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Effects processor

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there are devices, and digital devices, that can change the sound of an instrument. The weird flagger sound made on jimi Hendrix guitar tracks is done by a wah pedal, or example.

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Digital recording

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programs like protools, called digital audio workshops (DAWs) allow you to record music digitally. They process the audio directly from a microphone or instrument and lay them down in separate tracks, allowing the user to use digital processors, effects, and edit all in the same space.

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Texture

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relationships between elements in an ensemble, how voices and instruments blended into a musical whole
How many voices are there? Does one melody stand out? How do the parts relate to each other?


- Density or sparseness of music

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Monophony

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“one sound.” 1 sound, 1 note at a time, or a solo voice. Or a group of people playing or singing in unison. Octaves are still considered unison.

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Heterophony

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2 or more musicians who are simultaneously playing slight variations on the same melody. 2 or more musicians performing melody in slightly different ways

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Polyphony

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music that simultaneously combines two or more lines – used generally to describe any multipart musical tradition

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Polyrhythm

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– instruments of indeterminate pitch. 2 or more different rhythms played together.

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Interlocking

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Rhythms have a nature in which they fit together. Relationship between drums called interlocking.

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Indian Music -

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Indian music is all melodic

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African Music

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no intentional harmony

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Ostinato-based forms

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short melodic or rhythmic phrase repeated throughout the piece. Short defined as 2 beats, 4 beats, or 8 beats. Smallest unit of musical organization. Slight variations are thrown in, but overall basically the same. Ostinato can also just be an accompaniemet.

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Cyclic forms

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a longer unit of time repeated. A cycle would be the form. Large-scale unit of time. – 12 bar blues.

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Contrasting Sections –

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Strophic verse-chorus:

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Funny Way of Asking (Blues)

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Form: Ostinato within the instruments (playing a 12 bar pattern behind the music).
Type of Instruments: Aerophones.
Subdivision: Duple
emphasis on backbeats
Blues scale - blue notes

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Cuckoo Hornpipe

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Type of instruments: Aerophones
Subdivision - Duple
Form:
Texture: Monophony

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Mexican Mariachi Tune

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Subdivision: Triple

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Catecul Miresei (bride's Song)

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subdivision: Triple
Form: Metric Cycle

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Founé

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Syncopated
Subdivision: Triple

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Zorba teh Greek

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accelerates tempo
Subdivision: duple

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Saramasdana

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Subdivision: Duple

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Eagle Song

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Duple
Big melodic range

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Zeina Song (indian sounding w/ accordian)

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Ornamentation
Subdivision: duple

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taranta (flamenco)

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arpeggios
duple

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gondang haraharo (weird sounding)

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aerophone and membranophones
duple
ostinato
monophony

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nyamaropa (tinny sound, like a chordophone)

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idiophone

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salla alho ala mohammed

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heterophony

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hassidic melody (eastern european sounding) w/ greek sounding bellish thing

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heterophony
free rhythm

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xai (elephants)

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ostinato based