test 1

Question 1

“Throw Down Your Heart”

Answer 1

musician travels through parts of Africa and plays music with different types of cultures

Question 2

“Touch the Sound”

Answer 2

deaf lady that learned how to hear through the vibrations

Question 3

AABB

Answer 3

particular form that comes to us from the British Isles

the structure of a piece of music, comes from Ireland or England, binary

Question 4

Acoustics

Answer 4

molecules moving around, scientific study of sound; branch of physics

Question 5

African Music traits

Answer 5

• buzzy timbres
• dense textures
• conversational (call and response)
• Interlocking parts
• Polyrhythm
• ostinato
• ground and elaboration texture
• descending melodies
• participating music
• counterpoint
• textual density

Question 6

Amplitude

Answer 6

power; determines loudness; dynamics

Question 7

Bela Fleck

Answer 7

musician in the film throw down your heart

Question 8

Binary Form

Answer 8

two part form (AABB)

Question 9

Cadence

Answer 9

break between phrases. Sometimes it’s a comma, period or breath

Question 10

Call and Response

Answer 10

conversational aspect of music

Question 11

Chordophone

Answer 11

string instruments

Question 12

Colonialism

Answer 12

foreign domination with the intent of extracting resources

Question 13

Contour

Answer 13

shape; whether its ascending or descending

Question 14

Counterpoint

Answer 14

type of polyphonic texture; all voices doing something different, equally competing for attention

Question 15

Descending melodic contours

Answer 15

melody that goes down in pitch

Question 16

Dynamics

Answer 16

loudness

Question 17

Edward Hall

Answer 17

made films from the top of the school all involved in pattern behavior

Question 18

Egalitarian society

Answer 18

where everyone is contributing to decision making, everyone participate in opinion, everyones voice is heard

Question 19

Electronophone

Answer 19

plug-in instruments (keyboards, electric guitar)

Question 20

Ensemble

Answer 20

French for together, more than one musician

Question 21

Ethnomusicology

Answer 21

combines the study of music and the study of culture

Question 22

Evelyn Glennie

Answer 22

in the film touch the sound, deaf

Question 23

Fixed pitch

Answer 23

cannot change the frequency

Question 24

Flow

Answer 24

A completely involved, focused state of consciousness, with diminished awareness of self and time, resulting from optimal engagement of one’s skills

Question 25

Griot

Answer 25

figure who is the carrier of history in West Africa; story teller- musician- history, great power, tell us who we are

Question 26

Ground and elaboration parts

Answer 26

a repeated ostinato and elaboration, texture

Question 27

Heterophonic texture

Answer 27

simotaneous variations, everyones doing sort of the same thing but not, kids singing happy birthday, different insturaments

Question 28

Homophonic textures

Answer 28

harmony, all the same, different pitch

Question 29

Idiophone

Answer 29

rigid instruments; whole instrument vibrates (bell, rattle)

Question 30

Loudness

Answer 30

dynamic, amplitude, volume

Question 31

Marimba

Answer 31

played in Uganada, like a xylophone but with wood keys, many players

Question 32

Melodic contour

Answer 32

culturally determined; shapes melody

Question 33

Melody

Answer 33

a coherent succession of pitches

Question 34

Melody and drone

Answer 34

dominant melodic line an supporting accompanying part, - bag pipe, steady pitch

Question 35

Membranophone

Answer 35

stretched skin (drums)

Question 36

Meter

Answer 36

organization of pulses; measurement, beats

Question 37

Monophonic texture

Answer 37

1 voice or multiple voices doing the exact same thing (monks)

Question 38

Optimal experience

Answer 38

produces a sense of flow - recharges our psychic batteries - participatory - balance between challenge and achievability - extreme concentration - clear goals

Question 39

Ostinato

Answer 39

repeated phrase or riff

Question 40

Overtones (partial vibrations)

Answer 40

all the other vibrations on string along with the timbre vibration; determine voice of instrument

Question 41

Participatory Music

Answer 41

music that requests, requires and demands that you participate

Question 42

Phrase

Answer 42

short musical idea

Question 43

Pitch

Answer 43

highness or lowness of a sound, how fast it vibrates. High frequency vibrates fast, low frequency- vibrate slow

Question 44

Polyglot

Answer 44

someone who speaks multiple languages

Question 45

Polyphonic texture

Answer 45

multiple voices

Question 46

Polyrhythm

Answer 46

multiple meters/beats simultaneously

Question 47

Presentational Music

Answer 47

passively receiving music

Question 48

Pulse

Answer 48

beats

Question 49

Resonator

Answer 49

amplifier; box of guitar, wooden part of violin

Question 50

Rhythm

Answer 50

sense of time in music

Question 51

Riff

Answer 51

repeating phrase, ostinato

Question 52

Sliding pitch

Answer 52

slide trombone

Question 53

Stratified society

Answer 53

layers, hierarchy of power

Question 54

Synchronizing

Answer 54

from Edward Hall; how humans learn to synchronize with each other, in order to survive

Question 55

Tempo

Answer 55

speed of music

Question 56

Ternary Form

Answer 56

3 part form

Question 57

Textural density

Answer 57

the way that all the different voices interact; a lot of sound or activity

Question 58

Texture

Answer 58

the relationship between voices in an ensemble

Question 59

Timbre

Answer 59

voice of the instrument

Question 60

Vibrator

Answer 60

every instrument has 2 parts, this is one, something that moves