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Ch 1 Flashcards

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1
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Organized sound; universal element

A

Music

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2
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Group of people that share the same values

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Culture

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3
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Air to make sound

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Aerophones

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String instruments

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Chordophones

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5
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Instrument bodies vibrate (triangle)

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Idiophones

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Membrane vibrates (drums)

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Membranophones

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Fitting pitches into spaces between other parts

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Interlocking

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Drums + percussion; lots at once and lots of variety; many layers of percussion and other instruments

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Dense overlapping textures

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Long performances with lots of repetition; encourages community participation

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Community participation

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Repeated melody or rythmatic pattern

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Repetition

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11
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More than one meter occuring

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Polyrhythms

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12
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Performed while foundation is playing

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Improvisation

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13
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Wordsmith

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Jali

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Professional craftspeople along family lines, have a special life force

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Nyamalo

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Speaking people all over west Africa; Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Ivory Coast

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Mande

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Jobs run in family; sula (farmers, merchants, etc)

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Hierarchy of specialization

17
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Paramount chief rules; “one ruler” preserved in all social organizations

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Political hierarchy

18
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Survival= corporation; usually nomadic or semi-nomadic; hunter gatherers

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Egalitarian

19
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Traditional Hunter-gatherer society; music is largely vocal; instruments include whistles, rattles, flutes

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Ba Mbuti Pygmies: an egalitarian society

20
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Each person gets one pitch of melody

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Hocket

21
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Dense texture of claps, rhythm sticks

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Complex rhythms

22
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Solo vs chorus

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Call and response

23
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Used to contact ancestral spirits; encourages spiritual possession; spiritual healing

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Music and the supernatural

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Bontu speaking; family connections paramount; villagers, farmers, craftspeople

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The shona people

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Influential popular genre; fused with western instruments; elements of jazz (horns, guitar, etc)

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High life

26
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Powerful commentary; clear example of high life; contains many general characteristics of African (traditional) music

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Zombie

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