Ethnomusicology

Question 1

Alexander Ellis

Answer 1

Believed the cent was the basic element of all tuning

Doesn’t take into account non western tradition

Question 2

Curt Sachs and Eric von Hornbosted

Answer 2

Established the Sachs-Hornbostle system of instrument classification dependent on what is producing the sound

Question 3

Sachs-Hornbostle classifications

Answer 3

Aerophones
Cordiphones
Idiophones
Membranophones

Question 4

Example of an instrument who doesn’t fit classification

Answer 4

Khawmawk

Question 5

Who termed the phrase ethnomusicology

Answer 5

Jaap Kunst

1950

Question 6

Another term for Ethnomusicology

Answer 6

The anthropology of music

Question 7

Venda culture

Answer 7

Music = physically created rhythm
Melody not important
Dance = another layer of rhythm - without the context the rhythm would be incomplete

Question 8

Bauls

Answer 8

Group of mistics if varying rhythms
Riddle songs - meaning not clear without context
Tantric traditions

Question 9

Jugala-Sadhana

Answer 9

Couple meditation

Coded songs allow them to pass on traditions without context

Question 10

Riddle song reasons

Answer 10

Authenticity - you need to practice to sing them
Secrecy - protect their traditions
Medlodies vary - depends where they are - no unity

Question 11

‘Humanly organised sound’

Answer 11

Creative listening fundamental
Aims of musical and linguistic analysis should be similar
The term music = the ambodiment if the culture, society and humans who created it

Question 12

Carl Seashore

Answer 12

Measures of musical talents

First standerdised test of musical ability

Question 13

Rabindranath Tagore

Answer 13

Famous Baul who spread music to the west

Festival of the Bauls also spread the music