Final: Quiz 1-3 Flashcards
Free Rhythm
No sense of metrical rhythm, lack of beat and can’t clap to it
Monophonic
Single Part music (one solo voice)
Heterophonic
Musical organization that occurs when 2 or more voices/instruments are elaborating the same melody in different ways at the same time
Polyphonic
When 2 or more distinct melodies are combined, multipart music where several melodic lines interweave
Homophonic
Musical organization characterized by dominant melody and accompaniment, typical pop music today
Music-Culture Model
Outer: Memory/History (time and space)
Next Outer: Community (audience)
Next Inner: Performance (performers)
Most Inner: Affective Experience (Music)
Presentational
Performers present to audience
Participatory
Everyone contributes to sound and motion of even, like a jam session where all people are involved, no set performer or audience
Minyo
Traditional Japanese work songs that accompany hard labor that characterizes the region of that work
Shamisen
3-stringed lute for tradition Japanese music
Iemoto System
A master-apprentice system where a student learns from the master by observation and spending much of the young life with the master.
Work Song
Songs that workers sing to to help carry the labor
Blues
Type of music of play that is intimately tied to African American Experience
Powwow
A Native American social, ceremonial, and spiritual gathering featuring food, singing, and dancing
Sanjuán
The Northern Ecuadorian highland Quichua genre with harp w/o pedals as principal instrument; harp has been in Latin America for over 400 years
Ganga
Bosnian mountain music is slavic language with a polyphonic texture. Loud powerful voices are unmetered with rhythm determined by words in unison and thirds
Lunga
Hour glass shaped cedar wood drum which imitates the Dugblani language
Jiangnan Sizhu
Means silk and bamboo music of the Jiangnan region in East China, typically heard in a tea shop
Gamelan
Consists of several kinds of metal slab instruments, tuned knobbed gongs, drums, wind, and stringed
Kendang
Double-headed, barrel-shaped drum (Java); similar term used in West Java and Bali (Kendang)
Wayang Kulit
Shadow puppetry, using flat, leather puppets made of water buffalo hide
Dhalang
the puppeteer of wayang kulit
Dangdut
Hybrid genre of Indonesian popular music, combing influences form Indian film music, Western rock, and Indonesian regional styles from Sumatra
Raga
“that which colors the mind” concept fusing musical scale, melodic shape, and emotion
