Chapter 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
Ballad
a sung narrative
Billboard Charts
a music-industry magazine emphasizing music-recording rankings in terms of sales and popularity.
ethno-pop
an early reference to popular world music.
Classical
a label applied to formal cultural activities.
ethnomusicology
an academic discipline that focuses on world music and its cultural associations.
folk
common or ordinary people, as well as their cultural activities.
Folk Festival
a festival dedicated to traditional arts and crafts associated with common people.
genre
a category of music that has similar characteristics of style, form, and subject matter.
Grammy
an award given to members of the music industry.
gramophone
an early type of record player.
phonograph
an early sound-recording/producing machine.
popular
a well-liked modern music (in contrast to folk or classical music) that is used primarily for entertainment and disseminated through music-industry media outlets, such as a recording or concert performance.
World fusion
an industry label for popular world-music styles that combine more than one music tradition.
world beat
an early industry label for popular worldmusic styles.
world music
an industry label for a variety of international folk, classical, and popular-music styles.
Melody
a succesion of pitches forming a musical idea
Harmony
a blending of three or more different pitches
beat
a regular pulsation implied or articulated in a music performance
Rhythm
the organization of the duration of musical sounds
meter
the grouping of a specific number of beats
tempo
the speed of the beat in a music performance
text setting
the number of pitches per syllable of sung text
syllabic
one pitch per syllable
melismatic
more than one pitch per syllable
