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World Music
Voculary for Music 3200 - Music of the World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Soundscape | The distinctive settings, sounds, and significances of music |
| Frequency | Number of vibrations per second, determines the pitch |
| Overtone/ Harmonic | The harmonics above the fundamental |
| Fundamental tone | "first harmonic" or "first partial", the lowest tone in a harmonic series which determines the perceived pitcho f a sound |
| timbre | The distinctiveness of a particular voice or instrument, arising from acoustical properties of the harmonic series. Also called quality |
| Ethnomusicology | Field of study that joins the concerns and methods of anthropology with the study of music |
| Musical Ethnography | The process of identifying a musical scene and studying the soundscape of which it is a part |
| fieldwork | research, including observation and participation, of living traditions, also called musical ethnography. |
| fieldnotes | |
| acoustics | The science that deals with sound |
| Khoomii | Biphonic Tuvan throat singing, originally from rural Inner Asia and now heard in concert halls Worldwide. |
| Igil | |
| Tuva | Small country in Central Asia, where throat singers are from |
| Katajjaq | An Inuit form of throat music, literally "vocal game" |
| pitch | Highness or lowness of a sound |
| music | The purposeful organization of the quality, pitch, duration, and intensity of sound. |
| Vibrato | A regular fluctuation of a sound, produced by varying the pitch of the sound |
| Straight tone | A sound that lacks any vibrato |
| nasal tone | A buzzing vocal quality produced by using the sinuses and mask of the face as the sound resonators |
| Falsetto | Men singing in a high register above the normal male singing range |
| Idiophone | Instruments that produce sound by being vibrated. Classified by how they're caused to vibrate |
| Membranophone | Instruments whose sound is produced by a membrane stretched over an opening, i.e. Drums |
| Chordophone | instruments with strings. One of 5 Sachs-Hornbostel instrument types |
| Aerophone | Instruments that sound by means of vibrating air; subdivided into trumpets and horns, pipes (flutes and reeds), free aerophones |
| Electrophone | Instruments that produce sound using electricity. Part of Sachs-Hornbostel system |
| Sach-Hornbostel System | System of classifying instruments |
| organology | The study of musical instruments |
| Intensity | The perceived loudness or softness of a sound |
| Range (wide range vs narrow range) | The distance between the highest and lowest pitches that can be sung or played by a voice/instrument |
| Scale | Series of pitches set forth in ascending or descending order |
| Solfège | |
| Sargam | |
| Raga | The Indian system for organizing melodies according to their distinctive pitch content, ornaments, and range of assocations |
| Pentatonic Scale | Scale that contains five pitches. Among other instances it is base of Ethiopian mode of Tizita |
| Ornamentation | Melodic, rhythmic, and timbral elaborations or decorations such as gracings, rekrek, and grace notes |
| Trills | |
| Melody | Sequence of pitches, also called a "tune", heard in the foreground of music |
| Conjunct melody | stepwise melodic movement using small intervals (notes next to each other in scale) |
| Disjunct melody | Melodic motion by leaps of large intervals |
| Steel Drums | |
| Duduk | An Armenian wind instrument that symbolizes its native country |
| Drone | steady single tone or a pipe on a bagpipe that produces one |
| Textures | The perceived relationship of simultaneous musical sounds |
| Monophony | "a single sound", the simplest musical texture |
| Biphony | Melody with drone in background |
| Homophony | A musical texture, as in the western hymn, where the parts perform different pitches but move in the same rhythm. Melody plus accompaniment |
| Polyphony | Musical texture in which the parts move in contrasting directions, as opposed to homophony. Imitative is same melody in a round. |
| Heterophony | A musical texture in which two or more parts sound almost the same melody at almost the same time; often with the parts ornamented differently. 2 voices same melody |
| Harmony | collective sound of a series of chords, serving as a support to a melody. |
| Beat | An individual pulse |
| Irregular Meter | Assymetrical groupings with different numbers of beats per measure. |
| syncopation | A rhythmic effect that provides an unexpected accent, often by temporarily unsettling the meter through a change in the established pattern of stressed and unstressed beats |
| Strophic | A form in which all verses of text are set to the same melody. Strophic form can include a refrain that is sung between verses |
| Refrain | A fixed stanza of text and music that recurs between verses of a strophic song |
| Composition | The process of creating music |
| Improvisation | process of composing music as it is performed |
| Highlife in Ghana | |
| Ga | |
| Homowo | |
| Funeral Associations | Ghana - like insurance, group of people who pay dues to the association and when one member dies they buy their coffin and take part in the wake, a 3-day mourning/singing |
| Great Durbar | |
| Fontomfrom | |
| Agbadza | Ghana - An Ewe dance performed at social gatherings and funerals |
| Atumpan | Ghana - (AKA West African Talking Drum)Large drums, the central instruments in ensembles used in Asante ceremonies/state occasions |
| Polyrhythm | Contrastic rhythms that are performed at the same time |
| Ganesh Chaturthi Festival | |
| Ganesh | |
| Puja | |
| guru | |
| Bollywood | Indian version of Hollywood in Mumbai |
| Raga | |
| Tala | An Indian rhythmic framework consisting of time cycles that contain a fixed number of counts |
| Sitar | Indian "guitar" |
| Tabla | paired drums often in Indian music |
| Mrdangam | |
| Tanbura (Tampura) (Tanboura) | long-necked, plucked lute. Similar to Sitar without frets, plays the drone for other instruments |
| Sarod | |
| shankh | Conch shell played in India (Conch used in Polynesia and ancient Americas) |
| Ballad | Song genre commemorating important events and individuals usually in strophic form |
| Fado | Portugal - "fate", song genre closely associated with Lisbon and popular within Portuguese expatriate communities |
| Amàlia Rodriguez | |
| Hagerei | |
| Tizita | Category of tuning and melody, based on a pentatonic scale, widely used in secular music of Ethiopia |
| Diaspora | People living outside their historic homeland who maintain memories of and attachments to their place of origin |
| Folk Music | Category of styles of music transmitted by oral tradition, maintained in collective memory by a group of people, associated with nonprofessionals, and regarded as the cultural property of a group of people bounded by national, social, or ethnic identity |
| raga nilambari | |
| Quinceanera | Latino celebration of of girl turning 15 |
| Mariachi | A Mexican instrumental ensemble that includes the guitarron, vihuela, violin, and trumpets |
| Guitarron | large, plucked, four- or five-string bass lute with an expanded belly that serves as the bass instrument in Mariachi |
| Vihuela | A small, strummed folk guitar, a key instrument in the mariachi ensemble |
| charro | Mexican cowboy, fancy dressed, part of mariachi. |
| Sombrero | Large Latin American hat worn by charros |
| botonaduras | |
| Scottish Highland Bagpipe | |
| Gracings | practice of inserting grace notes into bagpipe melodies |
| birl | Quick ornamental figure of two adjacent pitches in bagpipe music |
| grips | Quick ornamental figure of two non-adjacent pitches in bagpipe music |
| Doubling | quick open/close fingering on one fingerhole, bagpipes |
| Piob Mhór | Scottish Pipes - "great pipes", fill bag by blowing into it |
| Chanter | Bagpipes - pipe with fingerholes that plays the melody |
| Drone | |
| Blowpipe | Pipe through which a bagpiper blows to fill the air reservoir(bag) |
| Uilleann Pipes | Irish small pipes with three drones, a keyed chanter, and a bellows to fill the bag. Has more of a "tinny" sound and more quiet to be played indoors |
| Cannntaireachd | Scottish - (mouth music) imitating bag pipes with singing. Mostly the gracings (doubling, grips, birls) |
| Pibroch | Genre of solo bagpipe music which consists of a set of elaborate variations of atheme, called the allrd urlar |
| Legacy of the MacCrimmons | |
| Ceilidh | Bagpipes - Social/musical event dating back to the 18th century and associated with Celtic traditions |
| Diaspora |
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