Pop Quiz Gay Flashcards
(59 cards)
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Elements of Central Asian Music
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- Buddhist influence
- mountainous influences
- low-pitch singing
- throat singing
- multiphonic
- overtones
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throat singing
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- sound from the back of the throat
- low pitch
- multiphonic
- overtone
- ties to the Buddhist/simple culture
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overtone
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low pitch and a high pitch resonating above
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Buddhist ritual music
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- one note/long time
- chants
- bright/dark timbre (overtone)
- tone color melody
- structure: unfolds over a long period, percussion
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tone color melody
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melody starts on one note, only quality (dark/bright) changes
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mandala
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- basically a ragamala
- images that depict various musical modes (ragas)
- shows moods/emotions of music
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puja
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hour-long Buddhist ritual
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rul-no cymbals
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controls a puja music time demension
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dung-chen trumpet
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lower/darker timbre
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brdung
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- series of accelerating strikes on the cymbals
- builds tension
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kungling trumpet
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higher timbre
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how to describe a puja
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- disorienting
- singing is non pulsatile
- instrumentation is pulsatile
- nonimprovised
- only participate if you are part of the ritual
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morin khuur
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- guitar like
- ancient
- 2 strings
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Tibetan music
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- Buddhist, spiritual, ritual
- folk songs (often horse influences)
- Dranyen
- costumes
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dranyen
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- Tibetan lute
- 3 courses, 6 strings
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Dranyen Shapdro
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- Tibetan
- marching into funning feel
- change of tempo
- building tension
- sounds like horses trotting then galloping
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Mongolia
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- Ghengis Khan
- long song: epic in scope, more serious, nomadic
- short song: lighter
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Hoyor Bor
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- long song about horses
- morin khuur
- urtyn duu singer (shigshill)
- hoomi singer (throat singing)
- mostly nonpulsatile rhythm
- whistling hoomi melody
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long song
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more serious, epic in scope, nomdaic
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short song
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lighter
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shigshill
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ornamented melody using vibrato (rapidly fluctuating pitch)
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hoomi singer
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- throat singing
- whistling pitch
- drone pitch
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Indian classical music
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- religious/spiritual/meditative
- improvisation
- drums
- solo instrumentals
- drones
- chord
- nonparticipatory
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karnatic (kriti) music
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- classical indian music
- primarily vocals
- ragas: scales
- talas: time cycles
- improvisation
- highly expressive/moods/emotions
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raga
- similar to mode(s)
- associations with nonmusical ideas (love, night, heroic)
- specific mood/emotion
- poetic ish
- has a set of rules
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tala
- rhythmic framework/timekeeping
- similar to the clave
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tabla
- drums governed by the tala
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ragamala
- painting/tapestry
- depicts certain scenes that illustrate the mood of a raga
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tonic
homebase pitch
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motive/motif
short repeating pattern/idea
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alap
nonpulsatile section that begins a raga
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tanpura
- indian chordophone
- strums scale tones, drone pitches
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sarod
- indian chordophone
- more expressive than the tanpura
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saval-jarab
- faster tempo in raga khamaj
- call and response between meldoic soloist and drummer
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saval-jarab
- faster tempo in raga khamaj
- call and response between melodic soloist and drummer
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raga khamaj
- improvisation
- alap (nonpulsatile section)
- tanpura
- sarod
- saval- jarab (faster tempo)
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what is indian classical musical comparable to
middle eastern takhat ensembles
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ta-ka-di-mi
indian drumming syllables
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kanada ragam
- piano
- aroh: ascending path of a raga
- avaroh: descending path of a raga
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aroh
ascending path of a raga
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avaroh
descending path of a raga
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how would you describe indian religion
polytheistic
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Ninnada Nela (Kannada)
- pallavi section
- tambura drone, followed by the singer and violinist
- tabla drum and kinjira (tambourineish)
- violinist and singer acting heterophonically
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pallavi section
- opening section of a kriti
- main melodic phrase/theme
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Bollywood
- syncretic: American + Indian
- films
- Hindi
- timbre: nasaly, high, sounds like Kriti
- sitar and tabla
- participatory
- glamorizes indian life
- community based culture
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Chinese music
- Buddhism
- socialist realsim (propaganda)
- confucianism
- taoism
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Confucianism
emphasises intellectual traditions/ceremonies, conduct poetry and philosophy
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Taoism
simplicity, philosophy, and everything connected to the divine
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chinese classical music
- guqin
- slow/sparse playing
- nonparticipatory
- player read poem
- not a lot of notes
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Ping sha lo yen
- wild geese desend onto the sand bank
- guqin
- yudino scale (5 notes)
- pentatonic
- fan yin (harmonies)
- emphasizing one note (ornamentation)
- calming/meditative
- original theme, variation, variation, etc
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guqin
zither, traditional chinese chordophone
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guqin
- zither, a traditional Chinese chordophone
- plays few notes
- drone sounds
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why did socialist realism shut down chinese classical music?
because it is individualistic and and for the intellectual class
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zither
chordophone laid out in front of you
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Guzheng
- more active than the guqin
- no poem
- paints portraits with just the music
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pipa
- pentatonic scales
- more brittle, bright timbre
- sparse texture
- music paints a picture
- more pitches
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sizhu
- similar to takht
- heterophonic
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heterophonic
same melody but variations
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Cui Jian
- western instrumentation + chinese flute
- syncretic
