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World Music 1
Ch 1-5 world music test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The rate at which the beat passes | Tempo |
| The choice of instruments that play a certain piece | Instrumentation |
| Arrange the pitches of mode in either ascending or descending order | Scale |
| The perceived amount of time a piece lasts for | Psychological Time |
| One sound. Single melody. men and women sing together in parallel octaves | Monophony |
| Used in instruments with a mouth piece. air is pushed through causing vibration between the mouth piece and this object | Single Reed |
| Gradual slow down of tempo | Ritardando |
| Aerophones in which a stream of air is focused on a sharp edge | Flute |
| The home base ptich | Tonic |
| An organization of beats, division of beats, and grouping of beats in distinct levels of passage of time | Meter |
| A piece of music that uses 5 pitches of the 12 available | Pentatonic |
| Feeling that a melody revolves around this pitch | Tonality |
| All similar instrumentation | Homogenous |
| Gradual decrease in loudness | Decrescendo |
| The regular division of time | Beat |
| The method by which musicians decide which frequencies will be represented on instruments or in a musical system | Tuning System |
| A song that repeats a group of melodic phrases over and over but with different words | Strophic |
| Abstract, a general direction or shape of a melody over time | Melodic Contour |
| Classical music, created by professionals, but selling to large audiences is less important than the depth of expression which can be very complex and sophisticated | Art Music |
| Temporary change of key or mode with transposition of music Temporary change of key or mode without transposition | Modulation |
| Music with a perceived beat | Pulsatile |
| A single melody accompanied by supporting harmony. Singer singing with guitar | Homophony |
| Each individual drum has a line of its own | Drum Polyphony |
| A sequence of pitches in rhythm as the most important element of music | Melody |
| David Byrne. "world music" ghettoizes music. Exotic = unnecessary | I Hate World Music |
| When men and women sing together | Parallel octaves |
| Long, constant pitch played throughout all or part of a composition heard more as a background noise | Drone |
| Music without a perceived beat | Non-Pulsatile |
| Created by professionals for mass audiences usually with the intent of selling it as a commodity | Popular music |
| Wind instruments. A column of air within the instrument makes the sound | Areophones |
| A meter in which the beat is DIVIDED into two | Simple (Meter) |
| Where the melody lies in relation to the possible range of the singer or instrument. | Tessitura |
| Several different simultaneous melodies. Singing in a round. (row row row your boat) | Polyphony |
| Created by armatures for their own community's enjoyment | Folk Music |
| Analyze composition and musical systems | Music Theorist |
| Meter in which beats are GROUPED in twos | Duple (Meter) |
| A shared identity in clothing, food, beliefs, values, customs, music ect | Culutre |
| Simultaneous variations. Not common in western music | Heterophony |
| A meter in which the beat is DIVIDED into three | Compound (Meter) |
| All different instrumentation | Heterogeneous |
| Study of the history of music | Musicologist |
| Gradual increase in loudness | Cresecendo |
| Musical characteristic that describe the relative roles and distribution of various melodies | Texture |
| The interval between pitches. 2:1 | Octave |
| Rhythm in which the metrical stress of a note is displaced in the meter so that the emphasis occurs on normally unstressed beats | Syncopation |
| The entire instrument vibrates to make the sound | Idiophone |
| The art of combining the instruments in different ways for musical effect | Orchestration |
| Used to lift the string up over the body of the instrument so that it vibrates freely | Bridge |
| A gradual speed up of tempo | Accelorando |
| Playing different pitches simultaneously | Harmony |
| Drums. A membrane (skin) stretched over a resonator or frame makes the sound | Membranophone |
| The number of sound waves per second. | Frequency |
| The major or minor scale around which a piece of music revolves | Key |
| The factual amount of time a piece lasts for | Clock time |
| Study of music as a part of people's way of life | Ethnomusicologist |
| The air being pushed and pulled by the first string and the air slightly pushes and pulls the second string | Sympathetic vibration |
| String instruments. A vibrating string, whether plucked, bowed, or struck makes the sound | Chordophone |
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