What is a branch of philosophy concerned with ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, form, and affect?
Aesthetics
What is the power in an object or experience that makes a person feel something in response?
Affect
What is the classical music of South India?
Carnatic music
What are tones that sound simultaneously?
Chords
What is a term for the surrounding environment?
Context
What is the way of life of a people, transmitted from one generation to the next?
Culture
What are subordinate tones that appear to ornament, decorate, or enhance the main melody?
Decorative tones
What is the study of the interactions among living things and their environment?
Ecology
What is the name of a rhythm without a recurring accent pattern?
Free rhythm
What is an Indonesian orchestra, consisting primarily of tuned instruments made of metal, chiefly gongs and types of marimbas/xylophones?
Gamelan
What is a named standard unit of the repertory.
Genre
What is music that accompanies a melody?
Harmony
What texture results from two or more voices or instruments elaborating the same melody in slightly different ways?
Homophonic texture
What is the composition at the moment of performance?
Improvisation
What is the distance in pitch between two tones?
Interval
What is the white keys on a piano from C to C called?
Major scale
What includes the material objects that people in a music culture produce that can be seen, held, felt, and used in the production of music?
Material culture of music
What is the principal tune in a piece of music, consisting of a succession of tones in a particular rhythm over a period of time?
Melody
What is a rhythm with a recurring accent pattern?
Metrical rhythm
What texture has a single melody?
Monophonic
What is a 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 a whole?
Musical analysis
Who are the group that carries on the traditions and norms of performance?
Musical community
What is the structure of a musical piece or performance: how it is put together and how it works?
Musical form
What is a meaningfully organized sound that proceeds according to agreed-on rules?
Musical performance
What is a small series of musical tones that is understood as a meaningful group or unit?
Musical phrase
What is the way musical sound is organized, depending on a music-culture’s aesthetics?
Musical style
What is a human group’s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, material objects - everything that has to do with music?
Music-culture
What are two tones where the second is exactly twice the frequency of the first?
Octave
What is a Javanese scale that divides the octave into seven intervals?
Pelog scale
What is a simplified map or picture of a performance that enables us to think about how it is put together, how it proceeds, and what it means?
Performance model
What is the frequency of a tone, depending on the vibrations of its sound wave in cycles per second?
Pitch
What is the simultaneous presence of two or more different metrical systems?
Poly meter
What is a combination of two or more distinct melodies?
Polyphonic texture
What is the simultaneous occurrence of several different rhythms, with a shifting downbeat?
Poly rhythm
What is an organized melodic matrix with a particular scale, melodic phrases, and mood, found in the classical music of India?
Raga
What is a stockpile of music that is ready to be performed?
Repertory
What is an ordered, stepwise arrangement of all the principal tones in the octave within a piece of music?
Scale
What is a Javanese scale that divides the octave into five nearly equidistant intervals?
Slendro scale
What is the characteristic sounds of a particular place, both human and nonhuman; the acoustic environment?
Soundscape
What are the words to a song; its lyrics?
Text
What is the relationship of melodies and harmony?
Texture
What is the quality that gives voices and instruments their characteristic sound?
Timbre
What is a musical sound with a definite pitch?
Tone