Exam 1 Flashcards

(41 cards)

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4 different ways to describe pop music

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Mainstream
Universal aesthetic
High demand
Related to traditional activity

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Timbre

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Quality or color of sound

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Vibrato

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Wobbly mess in instruments and voices

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Glissando

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Slide between 2 notes up or down

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Falsetto

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High range that males sing at

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Dynamics

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How loud or soft sound is

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Articulation

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Punctuation in music

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Ornamentation

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Any kind of ornamenting of the music

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Pitch

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Note

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Interval

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Space between notes

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Melody

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Tune

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Contour

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Shape of the music

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Drone

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Constant through whole song/performance

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Heterophony

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Stuck to melody, but adding own ornamentations

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Polyphony

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Canon or around; 2 or more melodies happening at the same time

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Unison (monophony)

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Singing or playing in unison

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Vocables

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When people sing with no sent syllables

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Syllabic

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When singing, every note there’s a different syllable

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Melismatic

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When sing multiple notes on one syllable

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Staggered entries

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When you come in at different times

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Repetition and variation

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When a piece of a song is repeated over and over again and varied

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Call and response

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One side calls out one thing and the other responds with another thing

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Motif

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Reoccurring theme that happens

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Phrase

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Musical phrase

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Strophic form
Most common form in US | Verses or stanzas that have musical melody
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Tempo
Speed of music
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Rhythm
Nest pattern of a song
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Polyrhythm
More than one neat pattern
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Positionality
Personal perspective shaped by identity, preference/bias, and experience
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Acculturation
Comprehends those phenomena, which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into sustained contact with subsequent changes in the original patterns of either or both groups
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Intoning
Instead of music, refer to call to prayer. Quran
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Cordiphone
String instruments-the vibration of strings
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Idiohone
When the object itself makes the noise.. Body percussion
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Aero phone
Vibration of a column of air in the body
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Circulation
Music in global cultures suggests ideas; systems of production and products circulating among peoples to the extent that something is widely shared Done through production, distribution, and consumption
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Islamophobia
Fears associated with people who are Muslim
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Cultural mining
Using something from a culture and using it in a different way than its original meaning
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Colonialism
Practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
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Imperialism
Policy of extending a country's power through diplomacy or military force Or The domination of one nation by another through military force, political economic forms of control and the manipulation of cultural symbols.
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Monophony
One melody, singing together
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Intersectionality
Interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage