Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
61 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Gankogui (3 points) |
African Double Bell. West Africa. Idophone. |
|
|
What is an Idiophone? What are the 4 types? |
Entire instrument vibrating to make the sound. 4 types: plucked, struck, shaken, scraped |
|
|
Axatse |
Rattle. West Africa. Idophone. |
|
|
Agbekor |
Music/Dance of the Ewe people of West Africa. |
|
|
Donno Drum |
Ghana. 2 drum heads held under the arm with strings attached to change pitch. Membranophone. |
|
|
Atumpan Drums |
Membranophone. Ghana. 2 drums which are of different pitches. |
|
|
JUJU |
Nigerian music genre; popular in the 1920's.in the 50s, 60s, and 70's, electronic amplification was added. |
|
|
Jali |
the people from Senegal who perform a specific type of music using the Kora. |
|
|
Kora |
like a harp made with animal skin. main body is half of a gourd. Senegal. chordophone |
|
|
chordophone |
a stringed instrument. 3 types: lute, zither, lyre, harp, bow. |
|
|
membranophone |
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. Most membranophones are drums. |
|
|
Balafon |
simple xylophone, wooden sticks, idiophone, Senegal. |
|
|
Mbube |
South Africa. a genre of choral performance common among migrant workers of South Africa |
|
|
Mbira |
lamellophone(type of ideophone). Zimbabwe. played by plucking with thumbs. |
|
|
Rumba |
Dance/ Music form in Cuba, developed after abolition of slavery, 1886 |
|
|
Claves |
Short Fat Wooden Sticks that you hit together. Idiophone, Cuba. |
|
|
Caljones |
Box Drums. Played by being sat on like a chair. Used Wooden Boxes that were used to store meat once they started falling apart. Idiophone, Cuba. |
|
|
Samba |
Music and Dance from Brazil |
|
|
Surdo |
Plays fundamental Rhythm, membranophone, type of drum, Brazil |
|
|
Pandiero |
tambourine, membranophone (head) and idiophone (disks) hybrid, Brazil |
|
|
Chocalho |
Cylinder filled with stuff, rattle, shaken idiophones. Brazil. |
|
|
Reco-Reco |
idiophone, scraped wooden cylinder, brazil. |
|
|
Agogo |
Like African Bell, click together while being struck with a stick, struck idiophone. Brazil. |
|
|
Cuicia |
looks like a drum but you take a stick to scrape it's inside, for a rich sound. idiophone. Brazil. |
|
|
Cavaquinho |
miniature guitar and only instrument in samba that plays different pitches. chordophone. Brazil. |
|
|
Santeria |
A cuban concept, it merges African culture and roman catholicism |
|
|
Son |
Folk music with European origins. involves one person sitting and playing the guitar. |
|
|
Salsa |
developed by cuban and puerto rican immigrants in NYC. |
|
|
Bossa Nova |
Popular music from Brazil |
|
|
Capoeira |
dance/martial art developed by runaway slaves in brazil |
|
|
Berimbau |
bow and arrow instrument, struck zither chordophone and from brazil. |
|
|
Calypso |
popular music from Trinidad characterized by improvised lyrics on topical and broadly humorous subject matter. |
|
|
Soca |
popular music from Trinidad and Tobago, combination of Soul and Calypso. Emphasis is on dancing and rhythm, not the lyrics. lyrics aren't deep, just about partying |
|
|
Rapso |
1970's, Popular music from Trinidad and Tobago. Returnedto emphasis and importance on lyrics after Soca. Combination of rap and Soca |
|
|
Pan |
Folk genre from Trinidad and Tobago |
|
|
what are the 5 classes of instruments? |
idiophone, chordophone, membranophone, electrophone, and aerophone. |
|
|
what are the 3 major musical categories? |
Classical music, folk music, and popular music. |
|
|
what is the difference between western classical and cultural classical music? |
western classical music is back by institutional patronage (has economic support) |
|
|
what is pitch? |
frequency that a physical object is vibrating at; purely psychologiccal |
|
|
what is the speed of sound? |
1100 km/hr |
|
|
what is timbre (tamber)? |
relative strengths of different frequencies produced by a vibrating object. several different frequencies at once. |
|
|
what is an aerophone? |
makes sound by movement of air (wind instruments) |
|
|
what is an electrophone? |
the sound is produced by an electric current, such as a keyboard or a speaker. |
|
|
what is a beat? |
underlying pulse, consistant |
|
|
what is the tempo |
the speed of the beat
|
|
|
What is an accent? |
LOUDER BEATS |
|
|
What is meter |
group of beats |
|
|
what are the three types of rhythm? |
free: beatless, no rhythm regular: presence of beat metered: beats are in groups |
|
|
akadinda music |
Xylophone music from Uganda. Rhythmic Interlocking. |
|
|
Who are the people from the Republic of Congo? |
Pygmy people: Short, Forest dwellers, Pre-agrian, egalitarian, nomadic, hunter gatherers |
|
|
What rituals did the Pgymys perform? |
From Congo; the forest was their home, they wanted torestore the balance with music, they perform at night to awaken the forest, itis not a form of payment, forest comes alive and heals itself |
|
|
Where do the talking drums come from? |
Ghana. |
|
|
where did the tango originate? |
Argentina and Uruguay. |
|
|
Bandoneon |
Argentinian accordion without a keyboard. Aerophone. |
|
|
where did samba originate? |
Brazil. |
|
|
where did son and salsa originate? |
Cuba. |
|
|
what are the elements of mariachi? where is it from? |
strummed lutes (guitars), trumpets, sad songs, Mexico. |
|
|
What is the Sukuri Ensemble? where is it from? |
Peru, an ensemble of sikuri (singular, sikhu) which are aerophones. They are pan pipes. |
|
|
Bombo |
Ecuador, instrument, membranophone |
|
|
Charango |
Equador, smallplucked lute chordophone, looks like a ukulele, shell made of armadillo |
|
|
Marimba |
Guatemala, El Salvador, idiophone, like a xylophone |
