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Music 185 Midterm
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Undergraduate 1
10/10/2011

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What are the 4 components of a music-culture?
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Ideas, Activities, Repertoires, Material
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The specific quality or color of a musical sound
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Timbre
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Refers to loudness of softness of musical sounds.
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Dynamics
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Occurs when 2 or more tones are sounded simultaneously
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Harmony
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Unit of harmony
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chrod
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pitch of greatest stability
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the tonal center
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Succession of musical tones
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melody
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Frequency
Definition
pitch
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distance b/w 2 frequencies
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interval
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Group of pitches that go together
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Phrase
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Short musical phrase. Repaeted.
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Ostinato
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2 types of texture
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monophonic - one, polyphonic - multiple lines
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Design of a piece of music. The structure.
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form
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How was express duration in music
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Rhythm
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Underlying pulse
Definition
beat
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4 categories of Hornbostel-Sachs
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aerophones (air), chordophones (strings) membranophones (membrane), idiophones (itself)
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3 modes of listening
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sensuous, expressive, sheerly
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What is an arrangement?
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Adaption of an existing work. Changes are made in form, style, or instrumentation
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Two styles of Indian Music
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North: Hinduston and South: Karmatak
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Similarities of North & South Indian music
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Form, type of improvisation, structure, instrumentals
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Differences of North & South Indian Music
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South is more composed and more vocal based
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What are the three layers of Indian Classical Music
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Melody (voice), Rhythm (drums), Drone (tonal sound)
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What is heterophony?
Definition
Multiple lines of music. Lines are same except for one.
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What is a collection of pitches?
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Raga
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Indian term for meter
Definition
tala
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What is the kriti
Definition
a fixed and devotional composition
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What is alpana
Definition
type of improv. showcases melodic performers of raga
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what is bollywood?
Definition
movies
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What is syncopation?
Definition
rhythms not corresponding to underlying pulses
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What is polyrhythem?
Definition
simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms
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What is polymeter?
Definition
use of two or more metric frameworks
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Buzzing timbre, bars struck in center, typically played by one person.
Definition
Fixed key xylophones
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Bars usually struck at edge, multiple players,
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Loose key xylophone
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Pentatonic scale, 12 bars, loose-key, three players
Definition
Amadina Xylophone
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