World Music 2
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- Ethnomusicolgist
- a person who studies music within its contemporary cultural context.
- Timbre
- the tone quality of "color" of a musical instrument.
- Medium
- the object that produces a sound
- Pitch
- a tone determined by its frequency level
- Tunning System
- the pithces common to a particular music tradition
- Scale
- the pitches used in a particular performance arranged in order
- Interval
- the difference between two pitches
- Range
- all the pitches that a voice or instruments can potentially produce
- Melody
- an organized succession of pitches forming a musical idea
- Melodic Contour
- the general direction of a melody
- Ornamentation
- an embellishment or decoration of the melody
- Text Setting
- the rhythmic relationship of words to melody
- syllabic
- one pitch per syllable
- Melismatic
- several pitches per syllable
- Rythm
- the relationship of durations
- Beat
- a regular pulsation
- Accent
- an emphasized beat
- Tempo
- the relative rate of speed of the beat
- Meter
- a system of grouping beats into individual units
- Free Rythm
- music with no regular pulsation
- Rythmic Density
- the quanity of notes between periodic accents or over a specific unit of time
- Phonic Structure
- the organizational relationship between or among musical sounds
- Monophony
- a single line of music
- Polyphony
- multiple lines of music
- Homophony
- multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea
- Independent Polyphony
- two or more lines of music expressing independent musical lines
- Hetrophony
- multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
- Dynamics
- the volume of a musical sound
- Form
- the underlying temporal structure of a musical performance
- Octave
- a note an octave up is vibrating twice as fast as the prior octave
- What are the four categories of the Sachs-Hornbostal system to classify musical instruments?
- aerophones, chordophones, idiophones, and membranophones
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What is a aerophone?
What are examples of an aerophone? - instruments that require air to produce sound. Flutes, reeds and trumpets.
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What is a chordophone?
What are examples of chordophones? - instruments that have strings. lutes, zithers, harps, and lyres.
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What is a idiophone?
What are examples of idiophones? - instuments that themselves produce sound. Rattles, bells, and other procussion
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What is a membranophone?
What are examples of membranophones? - use a vibrating stretched membrane to produce sound. Drums.