Test 3

Question 1

Three part model by Merriam

Answer 1

Sound, behavior, concepts

Question 2

Sachs Hornbostel system

Answer 2

how we classify instruments based on vibration

Question 3

Behavior for Native American music

Answer 3

dancing, social gathering, drum group (males)

Question 4

Concepts for Native American music

Answer 4

unified beat = unified community, war dances are for preparation of war

Question 5

Aborigine

Answer 5

indigenous people of australia

Question 6

Dreamtime

Answer 6

aboriginal spiritual belief system that ancient spirits created earth features by singing them to existence

Question 7

stratified polyphony (Indonesia)

Answer 7

all instruments follow a basic melody, high pitch plays the most notes and low pitch plays the least notes

Question 8

Colotomic (indonesia)

Answer 8

certain instruments play a musical “punctuation” that marks time in the music

Question 9

instruments in Javanese gamelan

Answer 9

gongs, xylophones, flutes, fiddle, drums

Question 10

Japanese Gagaku and structure

Mus example Etenraku (loud obnoxious noise)

Answer 10

Oldest orchestra in the world, 16 beat rhythms cycle

Question 11

Mode

Answer 11

set of rules used to compose music in a particular tradition- model systems throughout the world

Question 12

Raga (indian improv)

Answer 12

Based on three elements- melody, rhythm, drone

Question 13

Mbuti Pygmies

Answer 13

Term for forrest dwellers in Central Africa, know for egalitarian society

Music example: elephant song (guy yelling in background, polyphony, call and response)

Question 14

Common features in African Music

Answer 14

variety of timbre, polyphony, call and response, short repeated patterns

Question 15

polyrhythm (africa)

Answer 15

rhythm in which duple and triple meter occurs simultaneously

fontmfrom drumming- rhythmic timeline

Question 16

Kora of west Africa

Answer 16

21 string bridge harp, commonly used by griot musicians (elite professional musicians)

Must example Kora Mali- one with harps- osinato

Question 17

South African 20th century

Answer 17

migrant mine workers in South Africa formed vocal groups to maintain ties in mining communities

Question 18

Mbube (South Africa)

Answer 18

a vocal style named after a hit record by Solomon Linda

Mus Ex: Solomon Linda’s evening birds

Question 19

Syncretism

Answer 19

combining of different, seemingly contradictory, cultural forms into a new hybrid form

Question 20

Vodou in Haiti

Answer 20

syncretic blend of African trance religion and catholicism

Question 21

Cuban Son- el cuarto de Tula (clave)

Answer 21

cuban song form that combines Spanish song and guitar with African derived rhythms and percussion (son= rhythm)

Question 22

clave

Answer 22

structural rhythm in latin music similar to the timeline of African music

Question 23

Buena Vista Social Club

Answer 23

cuban social dance musicians active in the 30’s and 40’s- rediscovered in the 90’s

Tito Puente

Question 24

Javanese Gamelan (listening example starts with chimes)

Answer 24

Indonesian ensemble made up mostly of percussion- cylical form structure (gong cycles)- had stratified polyphony and colotomic

Question 25

Ostinato (African)

Answer 25

short, repeated patterns

Question 26

Ravi Shankar

Answer 26

starts with weird guy singing, raga improv, tea cycle