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Women in Music- Xavier midterm 2019

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Emotional Listening
listening for emotional reaction or response to a piece of music
active listening
recognizing and analyzing & interpreting music as you listen
Deep Listening
perceive analyze & interact & connect with pure sound
Rhythm
the organization of music in time
beat
the regular pulse of music
meter
the repeated pattern of a strong & weak beats
melody
a succession of musical pitches & rhythms arranged as a recognizable unit
harmony
the combination of notes to form chords & a way to understand the progression
Texture
the relationship between melodic and harmonic elements in apiece especially how many layers of notes are occuring at the same time
timbre
the distinct sound of a paticular instrument or voice
key/mode
a group of pitches arranged into a repeating pattern spanning 8 notes
major
slighty larger intervals
minor
scale mode of slightly smaller intervals
strophic form
each poetic verse is set to the same music
modified strophic form
each poetic verse is set to nearly the same music
word painting
musical elements that reflect text
melisma
multiple pitches per single syllable of text
Art music
thoughtfully cultivated music encompasses traditional music with advanced structural and theoretical written music
Art song
vocal work usually for solo voice & piano usually in classical tradition
Jazz
blends elements from blues, ragtime, popular music and creole
kolisha
"the voice of a woman"; a belief in Orthodox Judaism that women must not sing in the presence of men due to the potential to distract men in prayer
Liturgical
ritual for public worship usually a prescribed format for public workship
mass
The celebration of the Eucharist
ordinary
the elements dont change with the day of the calendar
proper
song texts that change for feast & festival days
the office
aka as hours of the divine office celebrated by monks & nuns in convents daily practice of 8 readings
morality plan
a sacred work with lead roles played by personified morals, virtues, or other abstract qualities meant to reflect on good vs evil
Syncretism
a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into a distinctive new culture
Ethnomusicology
comparative study of music as an aspect of culture and society using anthropological & musicological
Life Cycle Rituals
rituals surrounding the important moments of the human cycle
Diaspora
scattered population with common geographical origin
Primary source
a music program (artifact) that provides a first hand account of a historical event or subject or place
Matrilineal
tracing back through the maternal line
fetish priestess
woman who serves as a medium between the spirit & the living
Dipo
puberty festival for girls. Lifecycle ritual not accessible to men. the women get gendered instruments
Quaranic Recitation
oral recitation of the quaran preformed in a chant-like manner considered prayer & halal
Tarab
where the audience is swept up into a trance-like, the ecstatic state through the combination of sound & meaning
Firaq
European inspired string instrument ensemble includes violins
courtesean
educated female entertainment in the court
Geisha
a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
Shamisen
a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox
Troubador
a poet-composer of southern france occitan region active from 1170-1260
Troubairitz
female troubadour
jogular/jongleurs
aka a minstrel, professional musician or distinctly lower social class
vida
brief biography that is humorus all about their life
humanism
emphasis on the importance of the human experience including human values. reasoning and scientific discovery
Madrigal
italian secular vocal genre that uses poetic text
Baroque Period
1600-1750 style of art that was fuzzy and ornate, complicated
scared madrigal
solo vocal work with a sacred poetic text
mondoy
solo vocalist accompanied by a harpsichord or lute
Recitatives
sections of text sung in a speech like manner ideal for getting through a plot quicly
arias
lyric song often expressed a characters emotions or feelings about an event
Ritornello
a short instrumental refrain or interlude in a vocal work
dance suite
multiple dances grouped together into a set of stylized art form not meant to be danced but evokes style & spirit
subscritption concerts
public concerts in the 18th century where the audience pays for admission
salons
gatherings of distinguished guests that sometimes featured musical preformance
Deconstruction
taking apart or examining an idea to expose biases, flaws & or inconsistencies
Stile Galant
a fashionable style from the 1720's to 1770's featuring simplicity short phrases song like melodies and a less complex harmonic style
large scale
music genre that requires large numbers of musicians
Diva
celebrated female singers italian word for "goddess"
Prima Donna
most important female opera singer
coloratura
style of operatic singing that requires vocal agility to execute rapid passage
secondary source
document that has been intepreted by someone other than the direct source
primary source
artifact that provides firsthand acount letters diaries, music manuscripts
sonata form
often found in the first movement of a multi-movement work like a symphony or a sonata, it is a musical form based on the idea of a statement contrast restatement
exposition
themes introduced; key change
development
themes fragmented frequent changes in key
backbeat
emphasis on beats 2 & 4 used in jazz
Sonata Form
multi movement instrumental work that means sound in italian
sociocultural
the combination of social and cultural factors common descriptors are age, gender, educational background, social economic status, geographical location, race, and ethnicity
concerto delle donne
"group of ladies"; professional female court singers at the Fir-aqua court at the end of the 16th century
virtuosity
great technical skill
music
human produced organized sound with the intent or purpose
Baroque
A term a misshapen pearl ( From 1600's-1750)
verse
the same or simliar melody but different lyrics that often rhyme each time
chorus
(or refrain) repeated section of music & lyrics
bridge
instrumental section between the verse and the chorus
Consonance
stable, "pretty" or calm combinations of pitches
Dissonances
sounds that were unstable, harsh "crunchy" or in need of resolution
Medieveal period
1400's
Renaissance Period
1400's-1600s
Baroque period
1600-1750
Classical period
1750-1825
Era of Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven
classical period
Romantic Period
1825-1900
Modern Period
1900-present day
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