Music Cultures Intro Ppt.

Question 1

Ethnomusicology

Answer 1

The study of different cultures, especially, especially non-Western ones

Question 2

Musicker

Answer 2

Thinking of music not as a “thing” but as an “activity”

Question 3

Elements of a Cultural Group

Answer 3

Family, tribe, community, nation, continent, value system

Question 4

Insider

Answer 4

Grew up inside the culture

Question 5

Outsider

Answer 5

Grew up in another culture

Question 6

Middle Ground

Answer 6

Sympathetic Outsider who has acquired insider knowledge

Question 7

Oral Tradition

Answer 7

Musical knowledge transmitted directly to the student by performance

Question 8

Soundscapes

Answer 8

Characteristics humanly organized sounds of a particular country or location

Question 9

Monophonic

Answer 9

Single melody with no accompaniment

Question 10

Homophonic

Answer 10

Melody with accompaniment (chords)

Question 11

Polyphonic

Answer 11

More than one melody at the same time

Question 12

Hetereophonic

Answer 12

Single melody played differently by each instrument

Question 13

Idiophones

Answer 13

Sound produced by the vibration of the instrument itself

Question 14

Membranophones

Answer 14

Sound produced by the vibration of a membrane (drums)

Question 15

Chordophones

Answer 15

Sound produced by the vibration of strings

Question 16

Aerophones

Answer 16

Sound produced by the use of an air column

Question 17

Aesthetics

Answer 17

A set of principles concerned with the nature of and appreciation of beauty, especially in the arts