Quiz 1 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What is Blackings definition of music?
Humanly organized sound
Define Classical music
- Requires formal training and lengthy practice period (years)
- More complex then folk music
- Formal Setting
Define Folk music
- Learned through an informal process, compared to classical has a quick learning curve
- Informal setting
Define Pop music
- Well known, people will recognize the tune and dance
- Inspired by classical and folk music
Alan Lomax
- Son of John Lomax
- Helped the build the national archive, and they started going around and recording music on their field disc recorder
phonograph
- Made by Thomas Edison
- There was a carving (recording tip) and a playback tip, you spoke into the cone and then it carved into the wax cylinder and then it can be played back with the playback tip
Paul Simon and Graceland
- Groundbreaking album that blends American folk and pop with South African music
- Introduced global audiences to South African sounds and remains influential in world music discussions
Chinese national anthem
- He was teaching a lecture in China and he asked a girl to sing the chinese national anthem and she said no because that is something that everyone must sing together. So everyone got up and sang it. Then she asked him to sing the US one and he did so by himself.
- This shows that the US values individualism more then group work like the Chinese do.
- Also taught us the erm ethnocentrism
Moses Asche- Folkways records
Once recordings became disseminated, sometimes recordings are for profit and sometimes they are for archives and record keeping
Race records
- Platform for Black artists to express themselves and spread their music
- They helped Black music become a staple of American popular music
Ethnocentrism
the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the customs of one’s own culture
Ethnomusicology/world music
- the study of music in its social and cultural contexts
- it is the general field name
- World music is music from mostly non-western countries
Melody
A succession of pitches forming a musical idea
Rhythm
The organization of the duration of musical sounds
Categories of Rhythm
Meter, Beat/pulse, tempo
Beat/pulse
a regular pulsation articulated in a music performance
Tempo
the speed of the beat in a music performance
meter
the grouping of a specific number of beats
Harmony
A blending of three or more different pitches, as in a chord
- Harmony supports the melody in pop music
Timbre
the unique quality of a sound based on instrumental/vocal mechanisms and harmonic series
Improvisation vs. written notation of music
Improvisation – spontaneous musical performance; often transmitted through oral tradition and is unwritten
melismatic vs. syllabic text setting
- Syllabic: one pitch per syllable
- Melismatic: more than one pitch per syllable
What musical term does “La Vie en Rose” show?
Melody
What musical term does “Missouri Waltz” show?
Meter and tempo
