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37 Cards in this Set
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aesthetics
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branch of philosphy concerned with the ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment form, and affect
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affect
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power in an object or experience that makes a person feel something in response
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chords
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tones that sound simulatneously
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culture
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way of life of a people, transmitted from one generation to the next
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free rhythm
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rhythm without a recurring accent pattern
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genre
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named standard unit of the repertory. refers to types of music and describes a musical style
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harmony
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music that accompanies melody
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heterophonic texture
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two or more voices or instruments elaborating the same melody in slightly different ways
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homophonic texture
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dominant melody with an accompanying harmony
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interval
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distance in pitch between two tones
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major scale
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familiar do-re-mi scale of euro-american music.
white keys on piano c to c is a major scale |
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melody
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principal tune in piece of music. has succession of tones in particular rhythm for a period of time
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metrical rhythm
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rhythm with recurring accent pattern
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monophonic texture
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single melody
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musical analysis
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procedure in which patterns in music are revealed by breaking the music into its component parts and determining how the parts operate together to make the whole
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musical form
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structure of musical piece or performance: how it is put together and how it works
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musical phrase
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small series of musical tones understood as a meaningful group or unit
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musical style
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way musical sound is organized depending on music culture's aesthetics
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octave
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two tones, second of which is exactly twice the frequency of hte first
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pitch
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frequency of a tone, depending on the vibrations of its sound waves in cycles per second
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polyphonic texture
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combination of two or more distincy melodies
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rhythm
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time-relation among a succession of sounds
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scale
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ordered, stepwise arrangement of all the principal tones in the octave within a piece of music
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texture
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relationship of melodies and harmony
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timber
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quality that gives voices and instruments their characteristic sound; why trumpet soudns different from violin even when playing the same pitch
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tone
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musical sound with a definite pitch
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call and response
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mmusical form in which one part seems to be linked as a response to the previous part. the response part appears to be an answer or comment on the first or call part
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enemy way ceremony
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elaborate curing ritual among Navajos featuring many songs and war drama
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falsetto
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high voice from head rather than chest
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flageolet
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end blown wind instrument like recorder except two holes in the back are closed with thumbs
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Native American Church
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religious movement in Mexican and spread to the US. Its music, rituals, and beliefs combine Christian and Native Elements
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portamento
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synonymous with slide
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slide
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sounding all the frequencies between two pitches of an interval in sequence, upward or downward, as in the sound produced by a slide-whistle
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tail
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last brief section of a song. indian term similar to a western coda
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tempo
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apparent speed of piece of music. how slow or fast it appears to be going
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tonic
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basic tone, or note, or a melody of a section of a piece; most important pitch; usually the pitch that occurs most oten; 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
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