Music Midterm 1

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Rhythm

Back 1

relative length of sonic events in a piece of music, pattern of movement through time

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Meter

Back 2

regular groupings of the basic pulse

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Timbre

Back 3

tone or sound quality

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Texture

Back 4

the relationships between the different voices, the quality of overall sound produced

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Monophony

Back 5

a single melodic part alone

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Heterophony

Back 6

simultaneous performance of two or more versions of the melody

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Melody and Drone

Back 7

one part holds same pitch over which a melody is played

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Homophony

Back 8

succession of chords, church hymn

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Contrapuctal

Back 9

many melodic lines played simultaneously, equal in importance, compete for listener's attention

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Form

Back 10

structural design of a piece

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Ostinato/cyclical

Back 11

short pattern repeated persistently

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Strophic

Back 12

the words change, the music stays the same

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Binary

Back 13

AABB

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Ternary

Back 14

ABA

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Through composed

Back 15

new music is composed for each stanza of text

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Sign

Back 16

something that stands for something else, to someone in some way, internal context

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Semiotics

Back 17

a type of analysis that concentrates on how signs function to create actual effects in perceivers

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Icon

Back 18

resemblance between the sign and object, booming kettle drums in a piece of music are icon for thunder or canons

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Index

Back 19

actual association or co-occurrence of the sign and object in ones experience, hindi film song index for the region where it is from, India, emotional power, smoke fire, siren danger

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Symbol

Back 20

linguistic agreement about the meaning of a sign, = symbol means equals, certain chord means red, when you hear chord, you think red, chord is symbol

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Effect

Back 21

Emotional (index), Energetic (icon), Thinking (symbol)

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Semiotic density

Back 22

the relative number of signs potentially occurring simultaneously within a particular sign complex

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Indexical Snowballing

Back 23

historical layering of meaning in indexical signs

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Creative Indexing

Back 24

novel effects and new meanings in music, visual art, certain types of literature, wearing a formal dress with red sneakers or using a classical sample in a hip hop piece

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Self

Back 25

a body plus the total set of habits specific to an individual

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Identity

Back 26

the partial selection of habits and attributes used to represent oneself to oneself and to others by oneself and by others, situationally relative

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Habit

Back 27

a tendency toward the repetition of any particular behavior, thought or reaction in similar circumstances

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Culture

Back 28

the habits of thought and practice that are shared among individuals

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Cultural Formation

Back 29

constellations of habit that are shared among groups of people across cohorts, driving on the right side of the road, speaking english, stopping when the light turns red (Americans)

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Cultural Cohort

Back 30

social groupings that form along the lines of specific constellations of shared habit based in similarities of parts of the self (biker clubs, age, football fans)

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Socialization

Back 31

the attainment of models for living that are realized through active learning as well as through the imitation of those around us that often occurs below focal awareness

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Discourse

Back 32

a relatively unified constellation of habits of thought and expression which shape peoples reality about a particular subject or realm of experience- racial discourse, nationalist discourse, gender discourse

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Cosmopolitanism

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constellations of habits that are shared among widely dispersed groups in countries around the world but that are not traced to any particular homeland

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Participatory

Back 34

an stristic practive in which there are no artist-audience distinctions, only participants and potential participants performing different roles, and the primary hoal is to involve the maximum number of people in some performance role

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Presentational

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situations where one group of people, the artists, prepare and procide music for another group, the audience, who do not participate in making the music or dancing

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High Fidelity

Back 36

the making of recordings that are intended to index or represent live performance

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Studio Art

Back 37

the creation and manipulation of sounds in a studio or on a computer to create a recorded art object that is not intended to represent or be related to real-time performance