World Music - Exam 1

Music 2772 with Mullins at University of Colorado Boulder

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By: Lyndsi Gutierrez
Textbook:

World Music: A Global Journey
Created: 2010-09-22
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Music

Organized noise

Ethnomusicology

Scholarly study of any music within it’s contemporary

cultural context

Ethnocentrism

View that your culture is “normal” and others are “exotic” or “strange”

Timbre

The tone quality or "color" of a musical sound

Rhythm

the lengths, or durations of sounds as patterns in time

Melody

organized succession of pitches forming a musical idea

Harmony

the simultaneous combination of three or more pitches in the Euro-American music tradition

Form

the underlying temporal structure of a musical performance

Phonic Structure

the organizational relationship between or among musical sounds

Monophony

a single line of music

Homophony

Multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea

Polyphony

Multiple lines of music

Heterophonic

multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music

Aerophones

instruments requiring air to produce sound (flutes, reeds, trumpets, and bellows-driven instruments)

Chordophone

instruments with one or more strings stretched between points

Idiophone

instruments that themselves vibrate to produce sound (percussion)

Membranophone

instruments that use a vibrating stretched membrane as the principal means of sound production

Zither

Stings are stretched from one end of the resonating body to the other

Lute

Has a neck attached to the resonating body and the strings are stretched across both

Rhythmic density

relative quality of notes between periodic accents or within a specific unit of time

Meter

systematic grouping of notes into regular units

scale

the pitches used in a particular performance arranged in order

Interval

"distance" between two pitches

semiotics

the study of signs and systems of signs, including in music

`tuning system

all the pitches common to a musical tradition

text setting

rhythmic relationship of words to melody

syllabic

text setting with one pitch per syllable

melismatic

text setting with more than one pitch per syllable

melodic contour

the general direction and shape of a melody

Emic

Perspective of Cultural Insider

Etic

Perspective of Cultural Outsider

What are the three paradigms of ethnomusicology?

-comparative musicology
-musical folklore
-traditional

What are the six ideologies of ethnomusicology

-evolutionist
-neo-evolutionist
-functionalist
-interactionist
-semiotic
-phenomenological

Organology

the study of musical instruments

syncretism

hybrid styles of music, types of music blended together to form something new

Dombra

national instrument of Kazakhistan

iconicity

to imitate a particular sound through the use of music

throat singing

amplfying overtones by changing the shape of mouth, larynx, or pharynx

sygyt

high whistling (with high-mid-range fundamental

kargyraa

octave undertone and harmonics from it and fundamental 4-6 simultaneous frequencies.

animism

belief that all living things have a spirit

About this deck

By: Lyndsi Gutierrez
Textbook:

World Music: A Global Journey
Created: 2010-09-22
Size: 41 flashcards
Views: 162

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