Music History #3 Flashcards
1
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Mela
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festival for artistic, cultural, or political purposes
-old vs new
2
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Choreology
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study of dance steps
3
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Capoeira
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dance and martial arts
4
Q
Giddha
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Woman’s dance
5
Q
Debtaras
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Church musicians
6
Q
Zema
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a pleasing sound, chant
- -attributed to Saint yarhed (6th c) under divine inspiration
- -text written down, but chant taught through oral tradition
- -notation, 16th c developed by 2 musicians during a Muslim invasion
- -3 categories of melody (associated with the trinity)
7
Q
Syncretic
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the combination of two or more different concepts or styles
8
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Santeria
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“Saint worshiping” Afro Cuban syncretic religion
- Yoruba people of nigera
- music, drumming, dance, seek divination and trance
9
Q
Dhol
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two headed drum made of mango wood
- -played by men
- -left head (dhamma) lower sound
- -right head (purha) higher sound
10
Q
Toques
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7 melodic/rhythmic patterns
11
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Communitas
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anthropology term for altered state of consciousness or trance
- —-sense of contact with a spiritual realm
- —-sense of physical or mental powers
- —-conditioned response to sights, smells, sounds
12
Q
What is compadrito and how is it related to the tangos music and dance?
A
compadrito, the male dancer, an urban gaucho (a man who has come to less)
- –“lover and pimp”
- –tight black suit and heals
- –steps similar to knife duels
- –forward tilt “dominating the woman so that she is forced to retreat”
- syncopation
- quadruple meter
13
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Bembe
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Santeria religious feast/celebration
14
Q
Bateria
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instrumental ensemble
-berimbau, drums, scrapers, agogo
15
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Morris Dance
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English folk dance
- rhythmic stepping, belles attacthed to lower legs
- dances sometimes used props, sticks, handkerchief
- fiddles, bagpipes, accordions, penny whistles
- Druid to 15th c
- moorish dancing
- or poor people trying to make money
