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music apprec
chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| song | music that is produced vocally and has words |
| vocalise | a song having no words |
| folk songs | written by amateurs or "common folk" that have become traditional within a culture |
| round | a song form in which each singer or group of singers begins the song at staggered intervals of time creating a polyphonic texture known as imitative polyphony |
| improvise | to create on the spot during a performace, a common characteristic of jazz found in many other music styles as well |
| imitative polyphony | a round such as row,row,row your boat |
| ethnomusicology | the study of music of different cultures, especially non-western ones |
| work songs | existed to help lighten the load of heavy physical labor to help pass the time and to coordinate the movements of group labor |
| sea chantie(shanties) | songs sang to coordinate workers' movements on a ship(a subcategory of sailors' songs) |
| call and response | a group of singers answers a solo or "lead" singer |
| mariachi | a traditional Mexican ensemble of strolling musicians generally consisting of one or more violins and/or trumpets plus classical guitar and guitarron. |
| arch-form | melody that ascends and then descends |
| art song | poetry set to music; composed by trained musicians, generally more complex |
| through-composed | having continuously new melodic content throughout. |
| strophic | a song form in which the same melody is repeated for each verse, a chorus may be sung between verses(EX. most Church of Christ Hymns) |
| troubadours/trouveres | 1.A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, esp. on the theme of courtly love. |
| trobairitz | female troubadour |
| popular songs | often written by musicians without formal music training, also feature simple forms, easy accompaniments, and common subject matter, predominantly love. |
| blues | originating in the southern former-slave communities of the post-Civil war era, emerged from the field hollers expressing the frustrations of the people |
| jazz standards | blues that withstood the test of time |
| song cycle | a set of songs by a single composter intended to be performed together |
| yiddish | A combination of Hebrew and German language |
| lied | song in German |
| pentatonic | Relating to, based on, or denoting a scale of five notes, esp. one without semitones |
| lieder | songs plural in German |
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