Music of the Caribbean Vocab
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- Ethnomusicology
- The study of music in relationship to the culture that produces it with the goal of understanding something of what it is like on the inside of a particular music culture. It rests between anthropology and comparative musicology.
- Music Culture
- A given populatioons total involvement with music (cermonial, religious, recreational, professional, commercial, etc.) One music culture may be different from another by large divisions (nationality) or smaller
- Transmission
- How, within culture, music is passed from individual to individual and generation to generation.
- Function
- Purpose for which a given piece of music is written.
- Empirical Musical Culture
- All the tangible material "things:" related to music that a culture produces
- Enculturation
- passing on of traditions from one group/generation to another
- Ethnocentric
- Culturally singular; remaining within the realm of a specific ethnic population
- Oral Tradition
- the sustaining and passing on of information by word of mouth rather than documentation
- Tribal Music
- Music of non-literate cultures
- Cultural Accomodation
- adjustments a given culturemakes in order to coexist with a more dominant culture. Accomodation can come about as the resolution of conflict.
- Cultural Conquest
- When a culture is brought to abandon its own traditions and take up the traditions of another culture (a population is required/led to set aside its own music/art and subscribe to that of a more dominant culture.)
- Acculturation
- Mutual influence of different cultures on eachother
- Texture
- Results from the instrumentation used in music
- Singing Style
- different cultures use the voice varyingly. Singing style refers to the way we use the voice in music
- Syllabic
- One note for each syllable of text
- Melismatic
- Several notes to a single syllabe of text
- Non-lexical
- sounds sung that are without literal meaning
- Form
- Refers to the overall shape of a piece
- Strophic
- different verbal content given to a repeating melody.
- Through-composed
- a song in which the music changes throughout instead of being repeated for a series of verses
- Refrain
- (sometimes called the chorus in pop songs) Certain lines that are repeated at regular intervalswith the music and words remaining the same at each repition
- Chant
- different words spoken on the same tone
- Monophony
- a single voice part without accompaniment other than percussion
- Homophony
- clear and distinct melody with definite secondary accompaniment part
- Polyphony
- at least two distinct melodic lines occuring simultaneously
- Tempo
- refers to speed in music
- Melodic Range
- distance between the highest and lowest note in a melody
- Melodic Contour
- The shape of a melody as outlined by its curves, leaps, rises, and falls.
- Tone System
- all the pitches used in the music of a given culture
- Text
- the words used in a piece of music
- Style
- the character that typifies music as belonging to categories and is determined by internal logic, structure, and modes of expressions
- Sound Ideal
- the overall sonic character that attracts or is indicative of a giv en culture. Tone color and texture are its primary components
- Tone color (timbre)
- the character/quality of a sound. (ex: the difference between the same note being played on a bagpipe vs. a flute)
- Instrumentation/Orchestration
- the instruments and sonic materials used in a piece of music
- Antiphony
- music performed by two alternating sources - frequently a solo voice and a chorus in a "call and response" pattern
- Syncopation
- occurence of accents in unexpected places
- Ostinato
- a musical figure that is repeated over and over again