Exam 1

Question 1

4 different ways to describe pop music

Answer 1

Mainstream
Universal aesthetic
High demand
Related to traditional activity

Question 2

Timbre

Answer 2

Quality or color of sound

Question 3

Vibrato

Answer 3

Wobbly mess in instruments and voices

Question 4

Glissando

Answer 4

Slide between 2 notes up or down

Question 5

Falsetto

Answer 5

High range that males sing at

Question 6

Dynamics

Answer 6

How loud or soft sound is

Question 7

Articulation

Answer 7

Punctuation in music

Question 8

Ornamentation

Answer 8

Any kind of ornamenting of the music

Question 9

Pitch

Answer 9

Note

Question 10

Interval

Answer 10

Space between notes

Question 11

Melody

Answer 11

Tune

Question 12

Contour

Answer 12

Shape of the music

Question 13

Drone

Answer 13

Constant through whole song/performance

Question 14

Heterophony

Answer 14

Stuck to melody, but adding own ornamentations

Question 15

Polyphony

Answer 15

Canon or around; 2 or more melodies happening at the same time

Question 16

Unison (monophony)

Answer 16

Singing or playing in unison

Question 17

Vocables

Answer 17

When people sing with no sent syllables

Question 18

Syllabic

Answer 18

When singing, every note there’s a different syllable

Question 19

Melismatic

Answer 19

When sing multiple notes on one syllable

Question 20

Staggered entries

Answer 20

When you come in at different times

Question 21

Repetition and variation

Answer 21

When a piece of a song is repeated over and over again and varied

Question 22

Call and response

Answer 22

One side calls out one thing and the other responds with another thing

Question 23

Motif

Answer 23

Reoccurring theme that happens

Question 24

Phrase

Answer 24

Musical phrase

Question 25

Strophic form

Answer 25

Most common form in US

Verses or stanzas that have musical melody

Question 26

Tempo

Answer 26

Speed of music

Question 27

Rhythm

Answer 27

Nest pattern of a song

Question 28

Polyrhythm

Answer 28

More than one neat pattern

Question 29

Positionality

Answer 29

Personal perspective shaped by identity, preference/bias, and experience

Question 30

Acculturation

Answer 30

Comprehends those phenomena, which result when groups of individuals having different cultures come into sustained contact with subsequent changes in the original patterns of either or both groups

Question 31

Intoning

Answer 31

Instead of music, refer to call to prayer. Quran

Question 32

Cordiphone

Answer 32

String instruments-the vibration of strings

Question 33

Idiohone

Answer 33

When the object itself makes the noise.. Body percussion

Question 34

Aero phone

Answer 34

Vibration of a column of air in the body

Question 35

Circulation

Answer 35

Music in global cultures suggests ideas; systems of production and products circulating among peoples to the extent that something is widely shared
Done through production, distribution, and consumption

Question 36

Islamophobia

Answer 36

Fears associated with people who are Muslim

Question 37

Cultural mining

Answer 37

Using something from a culture and using it in a different way than its original meaning

Question 38

Colonialism

Answer 38

Practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically

Question 39

Imperialism

Answer 39

Policy of extending a country’s power through diplomacy or military force
Or
The domination of one nation by another through military force, political economic forms of control and the manipulation of cultural symbols.

Question 40

Monophony

Answer 40

One melody, singing together

Question 41

Intersectionality

Answer 41

Interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage