Music Cultures Europe Flashcards
1
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Gypsies
A
Groups of nomadic people originally from India considered outsiders.
2
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Flamenco
A
Powerful Spanish music featuring a vocalist and a guitarist. Includes rhythmic clapping and heal-stomping.
3
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melisma
A
a group of notes sung on one syllable of text
4
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Characteristics of flamenco guitar
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- flourishes
- hitting the guitar
- accompanies the cantaora (vocalist)
5
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Characteristics of flamenco
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- deeply personal lyrics concerning death, love, being accepted or rejected
- hand-clapping and finger-snapping
- toe or heel stomping
- castanets
-triple to duple meter shifts - improvisation
6
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Flamenco roots
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- Indian Hindus might have originated the flamenco dance
- gypsies have had impact too
- seen as an outsider genre
7
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Big composers of Russia
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- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Tchaikovsky
- Stravinsky
(they’re all mid)
8
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chastushki
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- playful songs
- inspired many of the Russian composers we know today
- dance tunes
9
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balalaika
A
most popular Russian folk instrument
- means to chat
10
Q
bagpipes
A
Scottish instrument with ornamental melodies and a drone
- has an airbag
11
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which pipes are lung driven?
A
Highland pipes
12
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Which pipes are bellow driven?
A
Irish pipes
13
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chanter
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part of the bagpipe that’s wooden with holes. Double reed made of cane
