Musical terms Flashcards

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Melody

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Organized succession of pitches

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Rhytm

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Organization of sound in time

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Harmony

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Playing or singing 2 or more pitches or notes at the same same time.

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Falsetto

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Singing in a voice higher than the range of one’s natural voice.

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Polyrtythms

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Several interlocking rhytms being played or sung simulateously. Example are : Jeopordy music.

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Gruttural

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Raspy, hoarse, growling type of voice. example : James Brown.

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Improvisation

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To spontaneously make up or create melodic ideas based on the pre existing harmonies or chords of a song. it is called soloing. everything got to be on the same chord.

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Collective improvisation

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When instrumentalists/vocalists improvise all at the same time

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Big band

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A jazz ensemble or group of instruments consisting of a brass section: 4-5 trumpets, 3 trombones and a bass trombonez( tubas and French horn are optional) a reed section consisting of a piano, bass and trap drums( guitar optional)

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Latin Percussion

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Congas, timbales, maracas, claves, guira, cowbell.

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11
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The voice

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Soprano: Highest sounding femalr voice

Alto: Lowest sounding female voice.

Tenor: Highest sounding male voice

Bass: Lowest sounding male voice.

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12
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Harmony and theory

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Science of music.

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13
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Amerindians

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Caribbean Indians. population estimated around 250.00 to 6 million. Largest

were found in Hispaniola.

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Ciboneys

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Longest in the caribbean in Cuba, but became outnumered especially by the more advanced Taino Arawaks, and the war like Crib in the lesser Antilles

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Areito

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Indigeneous music centered on socioreligious ceremony performed by the Ameridians in which as many as 1000 participants danced circles around a group of musicians

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16
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Countries that rules the Caribbean

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Primarely , Spain, France, Britain.

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Call and response

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a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. Very popular in Rap and R&B

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Rattle

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Maracas

19
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guiros

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musical instrument , also known as ground scrapers

20
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Mayohuacan

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a wooden drum played by the indigenous Taíno people of the Caribbean

21
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what country scholars think the Indian in the Caribbean came from?

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Vezuela

22
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How long did Columbus rules the Caribbean

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16 months( 1946-47

23
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Garifuna

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Black Indian itermixed from St Vincent, later exile to Honduras and Belize

24
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virgen de la caridad del cobre

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Popula Cuban cult or religion that mixex elements off the worship of the Taino god ATABEY THE YORUBA DEITY OSHUN AND THE EUROPEAN VIRGIN OF lllesca

25
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Indians name celebrated in the Caribbean

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In Cuba, Arawak princess A nacaona, and their chietain Hatuey who resisted the Spaniards.

In Peurto Ricans still use the Taino name Boriken to called their island

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Yorumba and Bantu

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Sub-sahara African tribes who were elaborate societies that came in the Caribbean

27
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Negrophobic Ideology

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Is where certain people in the Caribbean, especially in The Dominican Republic denied their black ancestry and said they have Indians blood instead

28
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Collective participitation

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In African music where everybody in society participate together as whole

29
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Afro Caribbean music has one distinct feature

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That is Rhythm.

30
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syncopation

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involves a variety of rhythms which are unexpected. it is a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm”:

31
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Ghanian Agbadza rythm

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Singing and dancing from Ghana

32
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Dahomey

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Ancient African kingdom or tribes that have ancestry in the Cuba and Brazil

33
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Influencial slave / ancestry in Jamaica

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Congoles, Akan, Cold coast and Cental Africa

34
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Manumision

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Getting or buying freedom from slavery which were commom in Spanish and French slavery

35
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Cabildos

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were African ethnic associations created in Cuba in the late 16th century

36
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Iberian Colonists

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Europeans from Spain, Portugal who colonized the Americas

37
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European influence.

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Sailors chanteys, church hymms, military dances, and social dances like quadrille, contredance. Stinged and wind instruments. Ten line decima. Narrative romance. Triple meter. Andulasian Am G. F. E

cuban rumba music can finds European influence n it

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Brilliant orators from the Caribbean

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Eric Williams from Trinidad. Fidel Castro from Cuba

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Creolization

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Begin to recognize that although they have african blood but they are new people immersed in a new land. Transition from being an African to a caribbean. Distant new culture from one or two culture

40
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Son Cuban music

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Is the root of all salsa music