Musical terms

Question 1

Melody

Answer 1

Organized succession of pitches

Question 2

Rhytm

Answer 2

Organization of sound in time

Question 3

Harmony

Answer 3

Playing or singing 2 or more pitches or notes at the same same time.

Question 4

Falsetto

Answer 4

Singing in a voice higher than the range of one’s natural voice.

Question 5

Polyrtythms

Answer 5

Several interlocking rhytms being played or sung simulateously. Example are : Jeopordy music.

Question 6

Gruttural

Answer 6

Raspy, hoarse, growling type of voice. example : James Brown.

Question 7

Improvisation

Answer 7

To spontaneously make up or create melodic ideas based on the pre existing harmonies or chords of a song. it is called soloing. everything got to be on the same chord.

Question 8

Collective improvisation

Answer 8

When instrumentalists/vocalists improvise all at the same time

Question 9

Big band

Answer 9

A jazz ensemble or group of instruments consisting of a brass section: 4-5 trumpets, 3 trombones and a bass trombonez( tubas and French horn are optional) a reed section consisting of a piano, bass and trap drums( guitar optional)

Question 10

Latin Percussion

Answer 10

Congas, timbales, maracas, claves, guira, cowbell.

Question 11

The voice

Answer 11

Soprano: Highest sounding femalr voice

Alto: Lowest sounding female voice.

Tenor: Highest sounding male voice

Bass: Lowest sounding male voice.

Question 12

Harmony and theory

Answer 12

Science of music.

Question 13

Amerindians

Answer 13

Caribbean Indians. population estimated around 250.00 to 6 million. Largest

were found in Hispaniola.

Question 14

Ciboneys

Answer 14

Longest in the caribbean in Cuba, but became outnumered especially by the more advanced Taino Arawaks, and the war like Crib in the lesser Antilles

Question 15

Areito

Answer 15

Indigeneous music centered on socioreligious ceremony performed by the Ameridians in which as many as 1000 participants danced circles around a group of musicians

Question 16

Countries that rules the Caribbean

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Primarely , Spain, France, Britain.

Question 17

Call and response

Answer 17

a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. Very popular in Rap and R&B

Question 18

Rattle

Answer 18

Maracas

Question 19

guiros

Answer 19

musical instrument , also known as ground scrapers

Question 20

Mayohuacan

Answer 20

a wooden drum played by the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean

Question 21

what country scholars think the Indian in the Caribbean came from?

Answer 21

Vezuela

Question 22

How long did Columbus rules the Caribbean

Answer 22

16 months( 1946-47

Question 23

Garifuna

Answer 23

Black Indian itermixed from St Vincent, later exile to Honduras and Belize

Question 24

virgen de la caridad del cobre

Answer 24

Popula Cuban cult or religion that mixex elements off the worship of the Taino god ATABEY THE YORUBA DEITY OSHUN AND THE EUROPEAN VIRGIN OF lllesca

Question 25

Indians name celebrated in the Caribbean

Answer 25

In Cuba, Arawak princess A nacaona, and their chietain Hatuey who resisted the Spaniards. In Peurto Ricans still use the Taino name Boriken to called their island

Question 26

Yorumba and Bantu

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Sub-sahara African tribes who were elaborate societies that came in the Caribbean

Question 27

Negrophobic Ideology

Answer 27

Is where certain people in the Caribbean, especially in The Dominican Republic denied their black ancestry and said they have Indians blood instead

Question 28

Collective participitation

Answer 28

In African music where everybody in society participate together as whole

Question 29

Afro Caribbean music has one distinct feature

Answer 29

That is Rhythm.

Question 30

syncopation

Answer 30

involves a variety of rhythms which are unexpected. it is a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm":

Question 31

Ghanian Agbadza rythm

Answer 31

Singing and dancing from Ghana

Question 32

Dahomey

Answer 32

Ancient African kingdom or tribes that have ancestry in the Cuba and Brazil

Question 33

Influencial slave / ancestry in Jamaica

Answer 33

Congoles, Akan, Cold coast and Cental Africa

Question 34

Manumision

Answer 34

Getting or buying freedom from slavery which were commom in Spanish and French slavery

Question 35

Cabildos

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were African ethnic associations created in Cuba in the late 16th century

Question 36

Iberian Colonists

Answer 36

Europeans from Spain, Portugal who colonized the Americas

Question 37

European influence.

Answer 37

Sailors chanteys, church hymms, military dances, and social dances like quadrille, contredance. Stinged and wind instruments. Ten line decima. Narrative romance. Triple meter. Andulasian Am G. F. E cuban rumba music can finds European influence n it

Question 38

Brilliant orators from the Caribbean

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Eric Williams from Trinidad. Fidel Castro from Cuba

Question 39

Creolization

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Begin to recognize that although they have african blood but they are new people immersed in a new land. Transition from being an African to a caribbean. Distant new culture from one or two culture

Question 40

Son Cuban music

Answer 40

Is the root of all salsa music