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1
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What is a branch of philosophy concerned with ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, form, and affect?

A

Aesthetics

2
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What is the power in an object or experience that makes a person feel something in response?

A

Affect

3
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What is the classical music of South India?

A

Carnatic music

4
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What are tones that sound simultaneously?

A

Chords

5
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What is a term for the surrounding environment?

A

Context

6
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What is the way of life of a people, transmitted from one generation to the next?

A

Culture

7
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What are subordinate tones that appear to ornament, decorate, or enhance the main melody?

A

Decorative tones

8
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What is the study of the interactions among living things and their environment?

A

Ecology

9
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What is the name of a rhythm without a recurring accent pattern?

A

Free rhythm

10
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What is an Indonesian orchestra, consisting primarily of tuned instruments made of metal, chiefly gongs and types of marimbas/xylophones?

A

Gamelan

11
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What is a named standard unit of the repertory.

A

Genre

12
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What is music that accompanies a melody?

A

Harmony

13
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What texture results from two or more voices or instruments elaborating the same melody in slightly different ways?

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Homophonic texture

14
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What is the composition at the moment of performance?

A

Improvisation

15
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What is the distance in pitch between two tones?

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Interval

16
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What is the white keys on a piano from C to C called?

A

Major scale

17
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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?

A

Material culture of music

18
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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?

A

Melody

19
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What is a rhythm with a recurring accent pattern?

A

Metrical rhythm

20
Q

What texture has a single melody?

A

Monophonic

21
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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?

A

Musical analysis

22
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Who are the group that carries on the traditions and norms of performance?

A

Musical community

23
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What is the structure of a musical piece or performance: how it is put together and how it works?

A

Musical form

24
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What is a meaningfully organized sound that proceeds according to agreed-on rules?

A

Musical performance

25
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What is a small series of musical tones that is understood as a meaningful group or unit?

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Musical phrase

26
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What is the way musical sound is organized, depending on a music-culture’s aesthetics?

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Musical style

27
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What is a human group’s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, material objects - everything that has to do with music?

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Music-culture

28
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What are two tones where the second is exactly twice the frequency of the first?

A

Octave

29
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What is a Javanese scale that divides the octave into seven intervals?

A

Pelog scale

30
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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?

A

Performance model

31
Q

What is the frequency of a tone, depending on the vibrations of its sound wave in cycles per second?

A

Pitch

32
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What is the simultaneous presence of two or more different metrical systems?

A

Poly meter

33
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What is a combination of two or more distinct melodies?

A

Polyphonic texture

34
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What is the simultaneous occurrence of several different rhythms, with a shifting downbeat?

A

Poly rhythm

35
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What is an organized melodic matrix with a particular scale, melodic phrases, and mood, found in the classical music of India?

A

Raga

36
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What is a stockpile of music that is ready to be performed?

A

Repertory

37
Q

What is an ordered, stepwise arrangement of all the principal tones in the octave within a piece of music?

A

Scale

38
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What is a Javanese scale that divides the octave into five nearly equidistant intervals?

A

Slendro scale

39
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What is the characteristic sounds of a particular place, both human and nonhuman; the acoustic environment?

A

Soundscape

40
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What are the words to a song; its lyrics?

A

Text

41
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What is the relationship of melodies and harmony?

A

Texture

42
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What is the quality that gives voices and instruments their characteristic sound?

A

Timbre

43
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What is a musical sound with a definite pitch?

A

Tone