African Drumming - Key words Flashcards

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A Capella

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Singing without musical accompaniment

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Accelerando

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Gradual increase in speed

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Accent

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The emphasis or stress placed on a particular note

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Balafon

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A gourd-resonated xylophone

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Call and response

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A compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music

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Cross rhythms

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Two conflicting rhythms heard together

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Cyclic rhythms

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any compositional form characterized by the repetition, in a later movement or part of the piece, of motives, themes, or whole sections from an earlier movement in order to unify structure.

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Decelerando

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Gradual decrease in speed

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Djembe drum

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A rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.

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Dundun

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A family of cylindrical African drums.

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Dynamics

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The variation of loudness in music, how loud or soft.

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Falsetto

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A male voice which is artificially high

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Gourd

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A record label featuring acoustic instrumental music with various ensembles of guitar, cello, flute, oboe, harp, fiddle, hammered and mountain dulcimer, banjo and mandolin.

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African flute

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Improvisation

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The activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, often to make a particular performer stand out.

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15
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Kora

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An instrument that combines features of the harp and lute

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Maracas

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A hand percussion instrument usually played in pairs and common in Caribbean, Latin American, and South American music

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Master drummer

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The person who leads other drummers in playing drum rhythms

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Mbira

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Uniquely African percussion instrument

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Oral tradition

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The process masters of the music used to efficiently pass musical wisdom down to succeeding generations of musicians

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Ostinato

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A repeated pattern

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Polyrhythm

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A combination of two or more rhythms played simultaneously while moving at the same linear tempo

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Polyphonic

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They can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously

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Repetition

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The repeating of certain parts of a song

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Syncopation
An off-beat rhythm
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Talking drum
An hourglass-shaped pressure drum so-named because it can imitate spoken language's intonations and rhythms
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Tempo
The rate of speed
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Unison
Occurs when two or more people play or sing the same pitch or in octaves
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Vocal register
A series of consecutive tones with similar properties