Exam 1 Flashcards
Ravi Shankar
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
Hindustani, India, composer of Hindustani classical music
Tyagaraja
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
Karnatak, India, greatest composer
Lata Mangshkar
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
bollywood, India, standardized female vocals as thin, light
Harry T. Burleigh
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
jazz, black, arranged spirituals for choruses and voice and piano
Alan Lomax
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
folk, american, recorded a ton of folk music
Francis James Child
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
ballads, British, collected Child ballads
Reggie Rockstone
Style/genre, nationality, prominence
hiplife, ghana, pioneered hip-life movement
sachs-hornbostel instrument classification
idiophone, membranophone, chordophone, aerophone, electrophone
types of textures
monophonic = one melody homophonic = one melody + accompaniment polyphonic = many melodies
ostinato
short repeating section of music
sesquialtera
3:2 ratio
strophic
verse-repeating. All verses are sung to the same music
raga & tala
melody & cycle. 5-7 pitches per raga. most common tala is tintal, a 16-beat cycle
kriti
“creation,” longer format of a karnatak song
agbekor & agbadza
:use of music, connect to culture
battle prep, funerals, political events; Ewe
holi & ganesh chaturthi festivals
:use of music, connect to culture
spring festival of colors & 10-day celebration of Lord Ganesh (end of august / early september)