World Music Exam 1

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Aesthetics

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Discrimination that are concerned with ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, form, and affect.

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Affect

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The power of music to move, and place affective experience at the center of the model.

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Chords

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Two or more pitches or notes deliberately sounded together, usually with a harmonic function.

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Culture

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The way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next.

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Free rhythm

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Non metrical music-singing and instrumental improvisation.(arab music)

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Genre

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The named, standard units of the repertory, such as "song" and its various subdivisions (for example, lullaby, Christmas carol, wedding song) or the many types of instrumental music and dances (jig, reel, waltz, schottische, polka, hambo, and so forth).

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Harmony

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A part different from the melody, sung at the same time.

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Heterophonic texture

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When two or more voice elaborate the same melody in different ways at roughly the same time.

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Monophonic texture

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When the musical texture consists of one melody only.

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Homophonic texture

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When two or more voices are combine in such a way that one dominates and any others seem to be accompanying the dominant voice.

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Intervals

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distance between pitches.

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Major Scale

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Do-re-mi (and so forth) represent a _______________.

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Melody

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The tune - the part of the piece of music that goes up and down, the part that most people hear and sing along with.

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Metrical rhythm

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If we measure the time-relations among the sounds and find a pattern of regular recurrence, we have _________________.

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Musical Analysis

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breaking music down into its component parts of mode, motif, melody, rhythm, meter, section, and so forth, and determining how the parts operate together to make the whole.

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Musical Form

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the structure of a musical performance: the principles by which it is put together and how it works.

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Musical Phrase

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A musical thought that result from combinations of sounds.

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Musical style

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Includes everything related to the organization of musical sound itself: pitch elements (scale, melody, harmony, tuning systems), time elements (rhythm, meter), timbre elements (voice quality, instrumental tone color), and sound intensity (loudness/softness).

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Octave

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Interval of 8 notes.

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Pitch

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Refers to how low or high sound is.

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Polyphonic Texture

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When two or more distinct melodies are combined. (New Orleans style jazz, Louis Armstrong)

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Rhythm

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A time relation among sounds.

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Texture

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helps describe how melody and harmony interact in various musics throughout the world.

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Timbre

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Cause by the characteristic way different voices and musical instruments vibrate. Tone quality.

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Call-and-response

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One singer utters a phrase of lexical text and the other answers him with a vocable pattern.

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Enemyway ceremony

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A curing ritual, one of the most frequently performed rites in traditional Navajo religion.

An elaborate curing ritual among the Navajos featuring many songs and war drama.

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Falsetto

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A high voice that comes from the head rather than the chest.

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Flageolet

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An end-blown wind instrument like the recorder except that two of the holes are in the back and closed with the thumbs, whereas on the recorder one is in the back and is closed with the left thumb.

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Native American Church

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A religious movement that began in Mexio in the ninteenth century and spread to the United States, particularly the American Southwest. Its music, rituals, and beliefs combine Christian and Native elements.

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Slide

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Sounding all the frequencies etween two pitches of an interval in sequence, upward or downwards, as in the sound produced by a slide-whistle; synonymous with portamento.

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Tail

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The last brief section of a song; an Indian term similar to coda in Western classical music theory.

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Tonic

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In Western music theroy, the basic tone, or note, of a melody or a section of a piece; the most important pitch; usually the pitch that occurs most often; often the last tone of a melody, the pitch that the melody seems to be gravitating toward.

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Vocables

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Syllables that do not make up words; "nonsense" syllables that may nonetheless have meaning in that they signify or symbolize something.