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MUSC Test 2
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40
Music
Undergraduate 3
06/28/2010

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Yutkut
Definition
Cantonese Opera Songs
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Yamngoke Se 
Definition
Groups of Cantonese people together singing Yutkut
Term
Yuengkam
Definition
hammer on the strings
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Bongwong
Definition
Aria type of  Yutkut most difficult type of song to sing
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Suikuk and Paijii
Definition
Fixed songs, melodies stay the same, but you can put different texts/lyrics over the melody, around 90% of Cantonese Opera
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Syutcheung
Definition
Kind of like epic songs, lots of lyrics, music is gonna be repeated, telling a story, interaction with the music
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Diegetic Music
Definition
when what you’re seeing matches the sound track. (music on screen matches music being heard)
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Modal Romantic Theme
Definition

Musical theme such as - love interest between the cowboy and the Native American.

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Terra Nulios 
Definition
unoccupied land
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Wrecking 
Definition
(clean up after a ship wreck; sell the items take what you could etc.
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Goombay

Definition

was a term that involved a whole set of things, type of dances, kind of repertoire, type of instruments, type of singing etc, all within the word.

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Popular Rake and Scrape
Definition

    type of Rake and scrape (dance/club version, high hat and bass) vs the accordion, saw etc. 

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Front Line
Definition
this is where all the costumes and themes are presented. Choreographed dancers, free dancers 
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Back Line
Definition
Where the Musicans in a Junkanoo Band play
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Kalik
Definition
is referred to the rhythm played on the cowbells
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Contredanse/English Country Dance
Definition
(Haitian line dancing) got to Cuba and became the Conradanza
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Habanera
Definition
Cuban Rhythm that's part of of the Contradenza 
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Orquesta Tipica
Definition
created by Afro-Cubans and consumed
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Danzo
Definition
– a couples dance (intimate) had an associate rhythm called the Cinquillo
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Tresillio
Definition
embellished into the cinquillo
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Bolero 
Definition
the music and the rhythmic cells are long short short (half note , quarter quarter)
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Guajira
Definition
cuban country music/rural music (not elite music) 
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Decima
Definition
10 line structure that is a Punto rhyme scheme
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Copla
Definition
coupled rhyme schemes
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Zarzuelas
Definition
Spanish-language operettas
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Tonadillas
Definition
more informal spanish-language operettas
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Rumba
Definition
developed in the late 19th century as a form of entertainment in urban lower class cuban neighborhoods
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guaguanco
Definition
characteristic rhythms that consist of the interlocking motives of the 2/3 clave
Term
Sexteto 
Definition
Six instrument band
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Septeto 
Definition
Sexteto plus the trumpet
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Marimubula 
Definition
large mbira-type Finger piano 
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Dreamtime
Definition
The cosmology of the Aboriginies 
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Canto
Definition
narrative section of Son music
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Montuno
Definition
(solo/jam band section/vamp) of Son music. Comes after the bridge
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Hocket
Definition

·      distributing melody or voice parts among many different people. 

Term
Huayno
Definition
music that male and females could dance to, used the Amerindian harp; music was from the highland
Term
Chicha
Definition
second generation of music from Peru
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Dreaming
Definition
Aborigine term for the series of events that led to creation
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Conjunto
Definition
The cuban dance band ensemble that played son in the 1940s was often called a 
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Palitos
Definition
Paired sticks percussion instruments similar to the clave
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