Chalter 1- North American Indian Music

Question 0

Song characteristics

Answer 0

Received rather than composed Part of a ceremony or event Sung with a solo or in unison Spiritual in nature Very little harmony, if so then not planned Call and response Monophonic Strophic

Question 1

Lifeways

Answer 1

Term used by Native Americans for the cultural norms, values, and ceremonies by which mankind lives

Question 2

Monophonic

Answer 2

One melodic line

Question 3

Volcanoes

Answer 3

A series of consonant-vowel clusters that are neutral syllables, such as hey, yeh, or ney, which I’m fact may convey meaning in themselves

Question 4

Economy of language

Answer 4

Painting a picture through words

Question 5

Reason behind Repetition

Answer 5

Creates a hypnotic effect

Question 6

Flute

Answer 6

Only melodic instrument used in Native American authentic music, sounds more like a modern recorder, used to court women

Question 7

Rasp

Answer 7

Piece of wood with a bunch of notches in it, and then take a piece of bone and rub it on the notches

Question 8

Drums were also used for….

Answer 8

Communication

Question 9

Powwow drums

Answer 9

Large, not migrate tribes would have them because they aren’t very portable

Question 10

Floyd Westernman

Answer 10

Old Native American in the movie that tries to keep the culture alive and put on the powwows

Question 11

Robert Mirabal

Answer 11

Famous flute musician, the one in the video in the mountains

Question 12

R. Carlos Nakai

Answer 12

Musician who combined popular music with Native American music

Question 13

Falsetto tones

Answer 13

Tones lying above the normal voice range

Question 14

Heterophonic

Answer 14

An overlap between voices singing slightly different versions of the same melody

Question 15

Texture

Answer 15

Described in music in terms of its “threads” or melodic lines

Question 16

Term used by Native Americans for the cultural norms, values, and ceremonies by which mankind lives

Answer 16

Lifeways

Question 17

Received rather than composed Part of a ceremony or event Sung with a solo or in unison Spiritual in nature Very little harmony, if so then not planned Call and response Monophonic Strophic

Answer 17

Song characteristics

Question 18

One melodic line

Answer 18

Monophonic

Question 19

A series of consonant-vowel clusters that are neutral syllables, such as hey, yeh, or ney, which I’m fact may convey meaning in themselves

Answer 19

Volcanoes

Question 20

Painting a picture through words

Answer 20

Economy of language

Question 21

Creates a hypnotic effect

Answer 21

Reason behind Repetition

Question 22

Only melodic instrument used in Native American authentic music, sounds more like a modern recorder, used to court women

Answer 22

Flute

Question 23

Piece of wood with a bunch of notches in it, and then take a piece of bone and rub it on the notches

Answer 23

Rasp

Question 24

Communication

Answer 24

Drums were also used for….

Question 25

Large, not migrate tribes would have them because they aren’t very portable

Answer 25

Powwow drums

Question 26

Old Native American in the movie that tries to keep the culture alive and put on the powwows

Answer 26

Floyd Westernman

Question 27

Famous flute musician, the one in the video in the mountains

Answer 27

Robert Mirabal

Question 28

Musician who combined popular music with Native American music

Answer 28

R. Carlos Nakai

Question 29

Tones lying above the normal voice range

Answer 29

Falsetto tones

Question 30

An overlap between voices singing slightly different versions of the same melody

Answer 30

Heterophonic

Question 31

Described in music in terms of its “threads” or melodic lines

Answer 31

Texture