Final Exam Flashcards
What is the V-Effekt?
Verfremdungseffekt - aka “distancing effect” that shocks audiences.
Who founded the Pontanima Choir?
Father Ivo Markovic
Who was Wilfred Owen?
An English poet and soldier whose works were used in the war requiem.
Define: Puputan
Ritual mass suicide (Indonesia)
_____ describes music that is not all sung exactly at the same time. Individual voices have slight variation.
Heterophony
___ are spontaneous chanting during protests that could include political slogans or songs, either improvised or previously created.
Toyi-toyi
Define Ilahija
Muslim religious song
Define Colotomic structure
Of or relating to the use of specific instruments to mark off established time intervals especially in traditional Indonesian music
Which type of gamelan is the older style that represents king?
Gamelan gong gede
Which gamelan style has fewer instruments, lighter sound, more elaboration, less punctuation, and more free form structure?
Gamelan gong kebyar
____ is a South African policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Apartheid
How was War Requiem an argument for pacifism?
Britten, a conscientious objector, vehemently adhered to the principles of pacifism and his critique of war shines within this opus through the addition of Wilfred Owen’s poetry.
What is the significance of War Requiem’s premier location?
The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.
What happened to alter society and thus the musical culture of Bali?
Puputan (mass suicide) left the gamelan instruments for the common people.
____ is the phenomenon of mixed senses
Synesthesia
