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Raga Jog

  1. What is the title of this piece?
  2. What instruments do you hear in this example?
  3. Who is playing the sitar in these examples?
  4. Where are these examples from?
  5. What is the genre of these examples?
  6. Do these example represent the fostering of standardization, or idiosyncratic attitudes about instruments?
A
  1. Raga Jog
  2. Chordophone=Sitar, Membranophone=Tabla,
    Drone instrument/chordophone=Tanpura
  3. Ravi Shankar
  4. India (north)
  5. North Indian Classical Music or Hindustani
  6. Idiosyncratic
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Didjeridoo

  1. What is the name of the instrument heard in this example?
  2. What country does this instrument come from?
  3. What is the common extra-musical association of this instrument?
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  1. Didjeridoo
  2. Australia
  3. Location=Australia, spiritual=dreamtime, gender=males
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Steelpans

  1. What is the unique instrument heard in this example (What instruments are being played)?
  2. What island country do these instruments come from?
  3. What is the common extra-musical association of this instrument?
A
  1. Steelpans or Steeldrums
  2. Trinidad and Tobago
  3. The Caribbean, The beach.
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Berimbau

  1. What is the name of the instrument heard in this example?
  2. With what country is this instrument associated?
  3. To people who know this instrument what does the distinctive sound of it represent? .
A
  1. Berimbau
  2. Brazil
  3. Rebellion, resistance, liberation, and the practice of capoeira.
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Mbira

  1. What is the common name for the unique instrument heard in this example?
  2. Describe this instrument.
  3. With what modern country is this instrument associated?
A
  1. Mbira (also known as a kalimba or thumb piano)
  2. The Mbira is an African plucked idiophone. It is also called a lemellophone.
  3. Zimbabwe
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Tibetan ritual music

  1. What are two unique instruments heard in this example?
  2. Symbolically these instrument produces the voice of what/who?
  3. What country is this music originally from?
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  1. Conch shell and kangling (thigh bone trumpet)
  2. The Buddah
  3. Tibet
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Shakuhachi Flute

  1. What instrument do you hear in this example?
  2. Where is this example from?
  3. What is the extra-musical association with this instrument?
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  1. Shakuhachi Flute
  2. Japan
  3. Zen Buddhist Mediation
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Carnatic Music- adi tala

  1. Where is this example from?
  2. In this example you hear the mrdangam drum. Which Hindu deity is this drum associated with?
A
  1. South India

2. Ganesh

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Komungo Sanjo

  1. What is the unique instrument in this example?
  2. Where is this example from?
  3. Is this instrument associated with high, or low, cultural status?
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  1. Komungo
  2. Korea
  3. High
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Punchdrunk- Bela Fleck

  1. Who is the performer of note in this example?
  2. What instrument does this performer play?
  3. Is this instrument associated with high, or low, cultural status?
A
  1. Bela Fleck
  2. Banjo
  3. Low
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Gamelan (Bali) Puspa Wresti

  1. Where is this example from?
  2. What kind of ensemble is heard in this example?
  3. Describe these instruments using instrumental categories learned in this class.
A
  1. Indonesia
  2. Gamelan
  3. Describe
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Djembe Drum from Mali

  1. What is the name of the drum heard in this example?
  2. What country is this example from?
  3. What is the extra-musical association with this instrument?
A
  1. Djembe
  2. Mali
  3. In America many poor quality djembes are sold as generic “African” drums
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West African Xylophone

  1. What country is this example from?
  2. What people created this example?
  3. What is unique about the timbre of these idiophones?
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  1. Mali in West Africa
  2. Senufo
  3. The resonator gourds on the xylophones have vibrating membranes that buzz when the notes are struck. This combined with the rattles attached to the wrists of the musicians add a texture to the sound that is part of the aesthetic preference of the musicians.
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Cantonese opera

  1. Where is this example from?
  2. What genre is this example from?
  3. How does the timbre of this singer differ with the vocal quality of the singer in Track 26?
A
  1. Cantonese=China
  2. Cantonese Opera
  3. The Cantonese aesthetic cultivated a more nasal vocal quality when compared with the European bel-canto aesthetic.
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Carmen

  1. What is the title of the opera that this example comes from?
  2. Who composed this example?
  3. What is the genre of this work?
  4. From which style period in Western Art Music?
  5. From what country?
A
  1. Carmen
  2. Bizet
  3. Opera
  4. Romantic
  5. France
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Ringmasters, Love Me and the World Is Mine

  1. What is the genre of this example?
  2. From which country does this genre originate?
  3. How many singers are in this group?
  4. Is this a homogeneous or heterogeneous sound ideal?
A
  1. Barbershop Quartet
  2. USA
  3. Four
  4. Homogeneous because the timbre of the voices blend together.c
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Adagio for strings

  1. What is the title of this composition?
  2. Who is the composer?
  3. From what country?
  4. From which style period in Western Art music?
  5. Is this a homogeneous or heterogeneous sound ideal?
A
  1. Adagio for strings
  2. Samuel Barber
  3. USA
  4. 20th centrury
  5. Homogeneous because the timbre of the string instruments are similar.
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Thai Pi Phat ensemble

  1. What country is this example from?
  2. Is this an example of a homogeneous or heterogeneous sound ideal?
A
  1. Thailand

2. Heterogeneous because the instrumental timbres are not similar.

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Take Five

  1. Who is performing this example?
  2. What is the title of this example?
  3. What is the instrumentation of this example?
  4. Is this a homogeneous or heterogeneous sound ideal?
  5. What is the genre?
  6. What country?
A

Take Five

  1. Dave Brubeck Quartet
  2. Take Five
  3. Saxophone, Piano, Bass, Drums
  4. Heterogeneous between all of the instruments, homogeneous between bass and piano left hand. Be able to explain using the word timbre in your explanation.
  5. Cool jazz
  6. USA
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Symphonie fantastique

  1. Composer=
  2. Style Period=
  3. Composition=
  4. Genre=

Listen to the final minute of movement 4.

  1. Is this a homogeneous or heterogeneous sound ideal?
  2. What is the ensemble called?
A
  1. Berlioz
  2. Romantic
  3. Symphonie fantastique, Mvt. 4
  4. Program Symphony

Listen to the final minute of movement 4.

  1. Heterogeneous
  2. Symphony orchestra
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What is an Idiophone?

A

Any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes. produces sound when struck or shaken. ex: bells, gong, rattle

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What is an Chordophone?

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A stringed instrument; musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings. ex. guitar or piano, harps, zithers

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What is a Membranophone?

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Any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane; striking, rubbing, or singing. ex. drums, tabla

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What is an Aerophone?

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Any of a class of musical instruments in which sound is generated by air as the primary vibrating medium; wind instrument ex. flute, trumpet

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What is an Electrophone?

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Instrument whose primary sound-producing medium is electricity; sound is generated electronically
ex. electric guitar

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List the five categories of instruments from the Hornbostel/Sachs instrument classification system and give an instrument for each category.

A
  1. Idiophones; ex: bells, gong, rattle
  2. Membranophones; ex: drums, tabla
  3. Chordophones; ex: harp, piano
  4. Aerophones; ex. flute, trumpet
  5. Electrophones; ex: electric guitar

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