World Music Intro Quiz
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- arephones - reeds
- vibrating air column caused by vibrating a reed 1. single, 2. double, 3. free
- texture
- blend of sounds and melodic lines occurring in a piece of music, refers to how the melodic lines relate to one another
- letter diagrams for form
- lower case letters=smaller sections; capital letters=larger sections
- in all cultures dance is accompanied by musical sounds
- true
- arephones - flutes
- vibrating column caused by split of air flow 1. endblown, 2. transverse
- biphony
- single melodic line with drone
- membranaphones
- all true (use a streched membrane for sound production) CYLINDRICAL, HOURGLASS, BOWL, GOBLET
- popular forms in world music
- strophic (has verses); call and response
- chordaphones - lyres
- strings strung perpendicularly to the resonating body with 2 arms connecting the resonator to the yoke
- in all cultures presented in units -- recognizable tunes or rhythmic patterns -- often referred to as "songs" or "pieces"
- true
- musical cultures evolve from simple to complex western music represents a more evolved musical culture
- false
- in all culturs singing is accompanied by percussion instruments
- true
- mode
- how pitches are centered and organized
- chordaphones - lutes
- resonating body and neck strings run parallel to the body of the instrument
- musicianship in a culture is hereditary unless you are born into a musical culture you cannot become proficient in that musical system
- false
- Music is a universal language
- false
- form
- organization of elements in a musical work
- modes found in westeren art music
- major and minor
- some folk music is analyzed using the _____
- medival church modes
- music changes in order to satisfy social needs
- true
- pentatonic
- 5 tone scale with no half steps
- other area of the worlds modal system
- variations on pentationic scales hexatonic scales
- societies differ in the degree to which they encourage individuals to participate in music
- true
- in all cultures singing is used in religious rituals to transform ordinary experience
- true
- idiophones
- instruments whose bodies vibrate as the principle method of sound production: STRUCK, PLUCKED, STAMPED, SHAKEN, SCRAPED, RUBBED
- the sachs hornbostel classification system
- early 20th century, curt sachs and enrich von hambostel
- heterphony
- different versions of the same meldoy are presented simultaneously not used in european classical
- classification system --->
- how the instrument produces sound
- musical genres occur in all societies
- true
- all societies have music of some sort (distinguishable from speech)
- true
- arephones - trmupets
- vibrating air column caused by vibration of lips
- transmitting music through oral traditionnalways causes change while transmitting music through notation automatically causes music to be fixed
- false
- 4 different categories of instruments
- aerophones, chordaphones, membranaphones, idiophones
- relative tuning
- more commonly found in folk music
- north india modal scenes
- around 200 ragas
- in all cultures music reinforces boundaries between social groups who view their music as an emblem of their identity
- true
- fixed tuning
- typical in western music
- tempo
- pace or speed of music, changes in tempo often influence concept of form in musical cultures
- indonesia modal system
- 7 note pelog scale and 5 note slendo scale
- homophony
- one melodic line or line of melodic interest with accompaniment
- chordaphones - zithers
- resonating body but no neck strings run parallel to the body of the instrument
- monophony
- a single unaccompanied melody can be one or many voices but only one melodic line
- electraphones
- depend on electirc power for producing and synthesizing sounds and for amplification ELECTRIC GUITAR, SYNTHESIZER, KEYBOARD
- chordaphones - harps
- strings run ata n angle to the resonating body of the instrument
- arephones - free
- air set into vibration by spinning the instrument through the air
- polyphony
- describes a texture with 2 or more lines of melodic interest
- chordaphones -
- sting instruments (produce their sound with a vibrating string)
- examples of form north india, japan, indonesia
- alap-jor-jhala, jo-ha-kyu, irama
- the worlds different modal systems involve
- quartertones and three quarterones not commonly heard in western music (sounds out of tune)
- medieval modes also found in western music
- dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian locrian
- virtually all cultures have instruments
- true
- arephones -
- wind instruments(produce their sound by a vibrating column of air)
- examples of other tempos in western music, japan, north india
- movements, jo-ha-kyu, alap-jur-jhala
- other areas of the have different
- modal systems
- all peoples sing
- true
- in western art music we have 4 instrument families
- strings woodwinds brass percusion, labled in 18th centruy, not sufficiant cross culturally
- different kinds of forms in non-western music
- not always as clear
- What is Music?
- Music = the art of sound in time, we must adopt a relativistic view --> no musical culture or style is better than annother
- merriams 3 part model for examining music as a cultural phenomanon
- sound (what? the music itself), conception (why? Societies basic ideas about music or the role of music in a culture), behavior (who when where and how? the activities that go into making music into the consumption of music