Music History #2

Question 1

Gamelan

Answer 1

Indonesian instrumental ensembles, mostly metalophones (steel or cast bronze)

Question 2

Slendro

Answer 2

5 notes in an octave (evenly spaced)

Question 3

Pibroch/ piobaireachd

Answer 3

A genre of slow solo bagpipe music that consists of a set of elaborate variations on a theme, lamentation

Question 4

Muyu

Answer 4

Songs about life

• transmitted orally or an be written down
• some short, others take days to perform
• divided into sections according to their story lines
• fixed from 7 syllable lines
• can add vocable a
• performed on a variety of occasions

Question 5

Kotekan

Answer 5

An Indonesian term for the interlocking parts heard in Balinese Gamelan music

Question 6

Pelog

Answer 6

7 notes to the octave, but generally only uses 5 of 7 notes

Question 7

Piob Mhor

Answer 7

Great pipes, “great sound”

Question 8

Diaspora

Answer 8

People living outside their historic homeland who maintain memories of, and attachments to, there place of origin

Question 9

Jinshaun

Answer 9

The gold mountain

Question 10

Ud (oud)

Answer 10

5 stringed middle eastern instrument with short neck and a large body,, brings health benefits to its players and listeners, strings are associated with cosmological concepts (seasons, zodiac)

Question 11

Mawwal

Answer 11

Traditional form, alternates sections in free rhythm vs regular rhythms

Question 12

Ca Hue

Answer 12

Vietnamese chamber music

Question 13

Guru and Shishya

Answer 13

Master and student

Question 14

Dan Bau

Answer 14

A Vietnamese zither with a pitch bending bar

Question 15

Corrido

Answer 15

A type of ballad, usually strophic, that commemorates important events and memorable individuals in Mexican and Mexican American History

Question 16

Pizmon

Answer 16

Hymns sung by Syrian Jews, feauturing sacred Hebrew text set to popular Arab melodies

Question 17

Sebet

Answer 17

A Sabaath afternoon songfest of unaccompanied Pizmonim held by Syrian Jews to celebrate special occasions

Question 18

Contrafacta

Answer 18

A song in which new text is set to a pre existing melody

Question 19

Post modernism

Answer 19

More positive optimistic outlook, global, mix cultures and styles

Question 20

Bricolage

Answer 20

French for tinkering, creation of a work

Question 21

Subculture and micromusics

Answer 21

small subgroups within larger musical cultures

Question 22

Spirituals

Answer 22

A genre of song that emerged from African American Slaves as they were converted to Christianity

Question 23

Ukulele

Answer 23

Small 4 string Hawaiian chordophone

Question 24

What is the make up of a gamelan (tuning, rhythmic organization, etc) and how is gamelan viewed by Indonesian society?

Answer 24

Gamelan is an Indonesian instrumental ensemble made up of mostly metalophones. Uses hand played drums, can involve bamboo flutes and rebab. Has no standardized pitch, all instruments are tuned to each other. Uses cosmic rhythm cycle.

Question 25

What is the social significance of Piob Mhor (in terms of affective memory and communication etc.)?

Answer 25

It is significant because bagpipes have a very strong, emotional, and powerful sound that has been and is still very often used at funerals and other situations to commemorate people. This is also significant to affective memory because when someone hears bagpipes, a majority of people will associate the sound with funerals and commemoration.

Question 26

What is jinshan and how is it related to Muyu?

Answer 26

Jinshan is known as the “gold mountain” and can relate to Muyu because Muyu is songs about life, and people could write songs about the gold mountain and how they hoped to get gold from there and thus get money that way.

Question 27

What is the Ud and what is its significance within middle eastern culture?

Answer 27

It brings health benefits to its players and listeners and it is associated with cosmological concepts (seasons and zodiac)

Question 28

What happens in a jazz funeral?

Answer 28

hymns, Processions past places important to the deceased, mourning, and celebration

Question 29

How has the concept of musical borrowing affected the Syrian Jewish Pizmon?

Answer 29

It could have effected it in several different ways. It depends on what type of melody was borrowed and where it was from, as well as what style of music it was, for the particular song.

Question 30

How have modern neuroscientists used music to help various patients recover from lost memory?

Answer 30

They take certain songs from the persons past that they liked and listened to during a certain time in there life, this way it can bring back memories from that specific time.