Music Test 1
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CristinaJoy on January 31, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Music | a humanly organized sound, personally defined as music, as a universal phenomen NOT universal language |
| contextualize | role of music in culture |
| ethromusicology | the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts |
| beat | the regular pulse |
| tempo | rate at which the beat moves: slow or fast |
| rythm | pattern of long and short durations |
| meter | pattern of strong and weak beats in each measure |
| duple meter | 4 beats: strong weak strong weak |
| triple meter | 3: strong weak weak |
| syncopation | an off beat |
| melody | organization of sequence of pitched in succession (vocal and instrumental) horizantal line |
| harmony | simultaneous surrounding of diff pitches -vertical -combo of pitches can be constant (good) or dissonant (bad) |
| texture | the interaction of different meloic lines at the same time |
| monophonic | one melody with one voice/ instrument or multiple in unison |
| homophony | one main melody but two or more going on at the same time |
| melody + accompanament | homophony with one main melody with background |
| homorhythmic | homophony all lines follow similar rythm, all contributing at the same time |
| polyphony | indepent lines of = importance (2+ melodies at the same tme) |
| imitative polyphony | one melody that has multiple entrances a round |
| form | the way the piece is musically structured |
| Sun Dance Song | Great plains music |
| Ghost Dance Song | a pan-tribal practice |
| Grand Entry Song | intertribal powwow |
| "Spirit Valley" | R Carlos Nakai NA flute music |
| "Who I Am" | NA Hip hop RedNation |
| "Barbry Allen" | Jean Ritchie Anglo American Folksong |
| "No Depression in Heaven" | Carter Family HillBilly 1920's |
| "Can't Get Enough of Texas" | Bob Wills and his TX playboys Western Swing |
| "Brakeman's Blues" and "Blue Grass Special" | Bill Monroe and the BLUEgrass boys bluegrass |
| "Honky Tonkin" | Hank Williams Honky Tonk |
| "Your Cheatin' Heart" | Hank Williams Honky Tonk |
| "Down the Dirt Road Blues" | Charley Patton Country Blues- delta |
| "Crossroads Blues" | Robert Johnson country blues |
| "Crazy Blues" | Mamie Smith Classic blues |
| "Empty Bed Blues" | Bessie Smith classic blues |
| "Got My Mojo Working" | Muddy Water Electric blues |
| "Spoonful" | Howlin' Wolf Electric Blues |
| "Long Tall Sally" | Little Richard R&B/ R&R |
| "Johnny B Goode" | Chuck Berry R&B/R&R |
| "That's All Right Mama" | Elvis Presely Rockabilly |
| "Hound Dog" | Elvis Rockabilly was done by a black lady |
| "Blue Suede Shoes" | Carl Perkins Rockabilly |
| "Folsom Prison Blues" | Johnny Cash |
| dynamics | how loud or soft a note is played |
| timbre | (tamber) tone quality or how a sound sounds |
| instrumentation | symphonic or hornbostel-sachs |
| chordophones | h-s vibrates a stretched string (strings) |
| aerophones | h-s vibrates a column of air (woodwinds and brass) |
| Membranophones | H-s drum vibrates a stretched membrane |
| idiophones | h-s percusiion that vibrates itself |
| electrophones | synthesizer. electronically place h-s |
| traditional native american music | diverse, songs from spirit world, orally transmitted, gender-specific, duple meter (heart beat), monophonic vocal melody |
| Music of the Great Plains | The Sun dance sacrifice to great spirit rebirth of the sun buffalo an eahle tree of life |
| Pan Tribal Music | The Ghost Dance :one specific area then spreads everywhere vision of the return of native landpeaceful movement |
| Wovoka | Paiute medice man in nevada pan-tribal |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | in SD US surpress Ghost Dance relig |
| Powwows | Pan tribal multiple trives and non native spectators youth |
| Popular NA musicians | Buffy Sainte- Marie John Trudell Robbie Robertson Marina Redbone |
| Waila | Chicken scratch culturation of NA traditions and Mexican |
| Anglo American Folksongs | traced from British orally transmitted strophic (AAA) no meter monophonic with just one voice |
| Grand Ole Opry | WSM Barn dance show live entertainment: Nashville since 1925 showcase for country singers |
| Hillbilly | 1920's and 30's in Appalacian Mts fiddle, autoharp, banjo, guitar, and upright bass Ralph Perry, Carter Fam |
| Western Swing | 1930's in South West string band + swing jazz dance music adds drums, piano, electric guitar, trumpet, and steel guitar Bob Williams and The TX Playboys |
| Blue Grass | Kentucky in 1940's acoustin ensemble: mandolin, banjo, fiddle, guitar upright bass! high-range nasally singing virtuosic improvision--? Bill Monroe |
| Honky Tonk | South West in 1940's dance halls and bars drinking, dancing, violence, anger, heartbreak string bands + electric guitar style of western swing + lyrics of working class nasally Hank Williams influenced "outlaw country" |
| Roots of blues | after Civil War as a fusion of: Worksogs, holelrs, and spirituals sharecropping replaced plantation system reflects indiviuduality, humanity, and leisure time |
| Country Blues | Rural/ Delta 1930's - 1940's solo male accompanied by a guitar maybe harmonica Charley patton and Robert Johnson |
| Classic Blues | City/ Vaudeville 1920's-1930's female with 2+ instruments "Race Records" but declinded b/c of country blues and talkies Mamie & Bessie Smith |
| Electric Blues | influenced by rural blues Chicago in 1940's night clubs--> electrification& shouting style Muddy Waters and Holwin' Wolf |
| Rythm and blues | fast, strong back beat, energetic performance style drumes, bass, piano, sax, electric guitar lyrics are fun and rebellious Little Richard and Chuch Berry |
| Alan Freed | calls the R&B records "rock and roll" for whites |
| Rockabilly | C&W meets R&B poor whites in 1950's sounds black strummed rythm guitar, upright bass stop time |
| stop-time | instruments stop for vocals |
| Sun Records | Sam Philips-- producer of Rockabilly |
| Cajun Music | rooted in fold ballad of french speaking Acadians of Canada (Nova Scota) refuges in late 18th century lower class dance music: waltz or 2 step stuccato rythm high vocal rythm |
| Tradition Cajun | voices, button, accordian, fiddle, acoustig guittar, triangle Breaux fam |
| Country/ Swing Cajun | piano & fiddle dominate, steel guitar, less acordian Harry Choates |
| Harry Choates | Fiddle King of Western Swing sparked national interset with "Jole Blon" got screwed over! |
| Zydeco | black creole culture creole + cajun + bles/R&B acordian and washboard (forttoier) faster and more syncopated than Cajun blues notes jitterbug 2 step |
| Clifton Chemier | King of Zydeco "Zydeco et Pas Sale" The snap beans ain't salty |
| Queen Ida | Queen of Zydeco |
| Cajun Renaissance | 1964 Newport (to present) Beausoleil traditional Cajun music with zydeco, rock, jezz, tejano, country, & Blues Michael Doucet--> fiddle |
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