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Music

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A collection of sounds, of which all contribute to a similar musical key, rhythm, and timbre. It’s produced by people and formed into a culture

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Sound

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A single source of rhythm, key, and timbre that is independent of its surroundings, something you can hear individually.

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Culture

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The way of life of people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next

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Music-Culture

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A groups total investment with music

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John Cage’s 4’33”

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3 movement piece from 1952 that was created to force people to listen to their surroundings, bu using tacets (when a voice or instrument is silent).

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Rhythm

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A time relation between sounds

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Metrical Rhythm

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Regular occurrence that has a steady beat

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Free Rhythm

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No sense of metrical rhythm, lack of beat and can’t clap to it, Sister, Hold Your Chastity, Yundao Ge, and Interstellar Overdrive

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Polyrhythm

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Simultaneous occurrence of more than one rhythm with a shifting downbeat, 1,2,3,4,5 then 1,2,3 then 1-5 etc.

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Melody

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the tune, the part that goes up and down

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Pitch

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Perceived highness or lowness of a sound, related to the frequency of vibrations

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Timbre

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The color and quality of a tone played, different on varying instruments.

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Volume

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How melodies increase of decrease in loudness

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Scale

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ordered arrangement of the pitches used in a musical performance

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Intervals

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Distance between 2 pitches in a musical scale

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Octave

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type of interval that is twice or half the pitch

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Harmony

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Simultaneously sounding tones

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Texture

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Describes how the melody and harmony interact (melodic interrelationships)

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Monophonic

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Single part music (one solo voice)

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Heterophonic

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musical organization that occurs when 2 or more voices/instruments elaborating the same melody in different ways at same time, Amazing Grace and Iluman tiyu

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Polyphonic

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When 2 or more distinct melodies are combined, multi part music where several melodic lines interweave, Bach’s Fugue and Makala

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Homophonic

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Musical organization characterized by dominant melody and accompaniment, typic pop music today

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Form

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Structure of a musical performance; how a musical performance is put together

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Phrase

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A musical thought; several phrase make form

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Music-Culture Model

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Outer: Memory/History (time and space)
Next Outer: Community (audience)
Next Inner: Performance (performers)
Most Inner: Affective Experience (Music)

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4 Components of Music-Culture

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Ideas of music
Activities involving music
Repertories of music
Material Culture of music

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Presentational

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Performers present to audience

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Participatory

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Everyone contributes to sound and motion of event, like a jam session where all people are involved, no set performer or audience

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Music Culture is ___ rather than ___, it’s always ___

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Dynamic, static, changing

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Minyo

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Traditional Japanese work songs that accompany hard labor that characterizes the region of that work

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Volkslied

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Anonymous, orally transmitted, amateur, continually varied songs of rural life

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Hayashi/Kakegoe

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Hayashi is the sung part (soran) while Kakegoe is the vocal part like Enya dotto

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Shamisen

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3 stringed lute

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Taiko

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drums, minyo usually accompanied by 2 drums

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Kane

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bronze bell, strike inside

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Shakuhachi

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End blown flutes held like clarinet

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Fue

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End blown flute held like flute

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Melisma

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A group of notes sung to one syllable of text

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Kimono

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Formal outfit for less formal occasions and older women, made of silk

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Furisode

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Formal, exquisite outfit for single/young women (under 40) with a long sleeve

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Hakama

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Formal outfit for men

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Yukata

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for men and women, made out of cotton and worn in summertime

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Iemoto System

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A master-apprentice system where student learns for the master by observation and spending much of the young life with the master.

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Sensei

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The master who is responsible for providing a model for and transmitting the traditional form, and providing educational experiences for the deshi’s self-discovery

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Deshi

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The master who applies themselves with diligence, respect, and perseverance.

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Natori

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Professional Performer status obtained after years of dedication and mastery of the art form, Given fake names that are related to the sensei’s name based on kanji strokes

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Improvisation

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Music that is created on the spot, spontaneously

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African American Music

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A genre that is independent of Africa and Europe. It’s a root music that flourished into blues, jazz, work, and gospel songs

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Hymn

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a songs of praise to God

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Lining-Out

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call and response in psalm or hymn singing, leader chants and group responds, Amazing Grace which is heterophony due to the call and response

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Gospel Songs

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lyrics focused on Christian life, more lively

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Whooping

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delivery of a sermon by part chanted, part sung

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Work Song

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song workers sing to help carry the labor

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Field Hollers

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work songs in free or flexible rhythm, sung solo, w/o instruments like Rosie, the wood chopping song

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Blues

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type of music of play that is intimately tied to African American Experience

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“Lazy” Bill Lucas

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Vocalist and acoustic/electric guitarist and drums. His trio sang “Poor Boy Blues” which has rhymes of same, name and toy, boy
Had trouble with eyesight
Father was a farmer, poor family
learned guitar in 1930 by observation started his career in 1946 inspired by Big Bill Broonzy
Some facts of Poor Boys Blues correspond to his life but not direct autobiography

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Jimmie Rodgers

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First country star - Blue Yodel No. 1

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Otis Rush

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A modern blue singer “Aint Enough…” where electric bass is louder than drums, a characteristic of black popular music since 1970s with a hoarse voice to show great emotion

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Characteristics of African American Music

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Rhythms like ordinary talk
universal phenomenon, accessible to all
Improvisation
timbre smooth and raspy
movement like swaying and dancing
call and response
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Postal Workers in Ghana

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A work song, the stamping provides a rhythm with a guy singing to it

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Interstellar Overdrive, Pink Floyd

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Example of free rhythm

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Polyrhythm, Perfume

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Example of polyrhythm

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Little Fugue in G Minor, Back

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Example of polyphonic

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Soran Bushi

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Example of a work song

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Sister, Hold Your Chastity

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Example of free rhythm, Bosnian ganga song

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Yundao ge

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Example of free rhythm, Chinese weeding song

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Amazing Grace

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Example of heterophony and lining out

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Iluman tiyu

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Example of heterophony

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Makala

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Example of polyphony, BaAka Song

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Hustlin’ Blues

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Example of the Blues, hear roughness of kazoos backed with washboard rhythm, trombone, piano, singing about a pimp who beats her when she doesn’t earn money, example of mistreatment

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Field Holler

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Leonard “Baby Doo” Caston’s is an example of volkslied and free rhythm for a work song

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Rosie

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Field hollers in free rhythm where metrical rhythm comes from axe

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Poor Boy Blues

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Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Trio about a poor boy that was thought to be autobiographical but only in some aspects, see rhymes of name and same, seen and scream, and toy and boy.

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