Quiz 2: Week Four Flashcards
Tribal Music/Styles
Music of native North Americans and their customs involved with music culture; musical practices that are unique to a particle ethnolinguistic community or group of communities
Intertribal Music/Styles
Music of different tribes that share common music techniques etc. Shared among tribal groups and communities; musical genres and practices that are widely dispersed and shared among a number of different Native groups and communities across North America
Powwow
A Native American social, ceremonial, and spiritual gathering featuring food, singing, and dancing.
Vocables
Meaningless vocals in a song, words that aren’t defined
Northern Plains Singing
Unison singing, steady drum beat from the “Big Drum”, high-pitched, tense, loud vocal production, terraced descending melodic line, no fixed or stable tonal centers, rhythmic displacement
Push Up
Push Ups occurs when the lead begins again after the chorus and coda are performed
Honor Beats
Check beats, hard beats dum dum DUM dum
Grand Entry
The first part of a Powwow ceremony which is procession with the Flag Song
Regalia
The traditional outfit worm during a powwow
Men’s and Women’s powwow dancing
Men: traditional dance, grass dance, fancy dance
Women: Traditional dance, Jingle Dress, Fancy Shawl
Native American Popular Music
Lyrics make political statements with a blending of styles with Artists like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman, Redbone, and XIT
Cahuilla Bird Songs
Traditional songs passed down from gen to gen that tell stories about ancestors and collect family history
Zampoña
Refers to panpipes in Andean South America, a set of end blown bamboo tubes lashed together each tube produces different pitches
K’antu
ceremonial panpipe music from the altiplano Peru and Bolivia
Arca
the 7-tubed female follower
Ira
the 6-tubed male leader
Hocketing
melody is dispersed among two or more voices or instruments; when one sounds the others do not
Comunas
small clusters of houses of the Quichua people of Northern Andes of Ecuador
Chaki ñanes
the footpaths that connect houses
Sanjuán
The northern Ecuadorian highland Quichua genre with harp w/o pedals as principal instrument; harp has been in Latin America for over 400 years
Imbabura Harp
Common in Imbabura Province only, made of cedar and used wooden nails, sound emanates through 3 circular holes on top of sound box, consists of gut, nylon, and steel strings
isorhytm
equal rhythm, the rhythm of the first half of phrase is identical to second half
Double Couplets
one two-line verse, then double couplet or harp interlude
