Quiz1 Flashcards
Ethnomusicology
The study of music with their culture context.
Ethnocentrism
The assumption that your culture is normal and others is strange.
Folklore
The study of orally pass on folk knowledge and culture.
Fieldwork
Record music in the field on cylinder, disk, wire, and shape.
First hand study of music in the original context.
Timbre
Tone quality or color of a musical sound.
Aerophone
Instrument that needs air to make sound.
Flute, reeds, trumpets, bellow.
Chordophone
String instrument
Lutes, zithers, harps, lyres.
Idiophone
Lamellophone
Vibrate to make sound.
Rattles, bells, percussion.
Membranophone
Drums
Use stretched out membranes to create sound through vibration.
Melodic contour
General direction of melody
“Joy to the world” descending pitch
Drone
Continuous or repeating sounds.
Medium
An object that makes sound.
In between sound waves.
Aerophone, chordophone, idiophone, membranophone.
Pitch
Tone controlled by frequency level.
Turning system
Collection of pitch frequencies used in music tradition.
Scale
Pitches in a particular performance arranged in order.
Interval
Distance between 2 pitches.
Range
Span of pitches.
Melody
An organized succession of music forming a musical idea.
Melodic contour
General direction and shape of a melody.
Ornamentation
Embellishment or decoration of melody
Text setting
Correspondence of words to melody.
Rhythm
The relationship of sound durations.
Beat
A regular pulsation
Tempo
Speed of the beat
Accent
Emphasized beat
Meter
Grouping beats to units
Free rhythm
Music without pulsation
Rhythmic density
Quantity of notes between periodic accents
Phonic density
Relationship between musical sounds
Monophony
A single line of music
Polyphony
Many lines of music
Homophony
Multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea
Independent polyphony
Two or more music lines expressing independent musical ideas
Heterophony
Many performers playing the same line of music
Dynamics
Volume of a musical sound
Form
The temporal structure of a musical performance.
