Final: Quiz 1-3 Flashcards
Free Rhythm
No sense of metrical rhythm, lack of beat and can’t clap to it
Monophonic
Single Part music (one solo voice)
Heterophonic
Musical organization that occurs when 2 or more voices/instruments are elaborating the same melody in different ways at the same time
Polyphonic
When 2 or more distinct melodies are combined, multipart music where several melodic lines interweave
Homophonic
Musical organization characterized by dominant melody and accompaniment, typical pop music today
Music-Culture Model
Outer: Memory/History (time and space)
Next Outer: Community (audience)
Next Inner: Performance (performers)
Most Inner: Affective Experience (Music)
Presentational
Performers present to audience
Participatory
Everyone contributes to sound and motion of even, like a jam session where all people are involved, no set performer or audience
Minyo
Traditional Japanese work songs that accompany hard labor that characterizes the region of that work
Shamisen
3-stringed lute for tradition Japanese music
Iemoto System
A master-apprentice system where a student learns from the master by observation and spending much of the young life with the master.
Work Song
Songs that workers sing to to help carry the labor
Blues
Type of music of play that is intimately tied to African American Experience
Powwow
A Native American social, ceremonial, and spiritual gathering featuring food, singing, and dancing
Sanjuán
The Northern Ecuadorian highland Quichua genre with harp w/o pedals as principal instrument; harp has been in Latin America for over 400 years
