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World Musics test
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Music
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2010

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Comparative musicology
Definition
Transcription, comparison, origins, dissemination, genealogy, scientific method, “universalist,” “evolutionist.”
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Musical Folklore
Definition
Preservation, nationalism, education, social context.
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Traditional Ethnomusicology
Definition
Fieldwork/immersion, Anthropology, cultural relativity, distrust of broad generalities, focus on acculturation and change.
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Organology
Definition
Study of musical instruments
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Aerophones
Definition
Instruments that make sound using the vibration of air' Flutes reeds trumpets
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Chordophones
Definition
instruments with multiple strings,Sound is produced when string vibrates
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Idiophones
Definition
The vibration of the instrument itself produces sound, plucked struck or shaken
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membranophones
Definition
drums
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Lute vs Zither
Definition

Lute- bowed vs plucked, fretless vs fretted

Zither- no neck, plucked vs struck

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Timbre
Definition
overtones or quality of sound
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Rhythm
Definition
relationship of 2 sounds over time
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Melody
Definition
Relationship of 2 pitches over time
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Harmony
Definition
2 sounds with similar pitches making 1 sound
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Form
Definition
The underlying structure of a musical performance
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monophonic
Definition
music with a single melodic line
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Polyphonic
Definition
multiple lines of music performed simultaneously
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homophonic
Definition
multiple lines of music expressing the same idea
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heterophonic
Definition
multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
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Tuning system
Definition
all the pitches common to a musical tradition
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interval
Definition
distance between 2 pitches
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melodic countour
Definition
shape of a melody
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text setting and the 2 types
Definition

rhythmic relationship of words to melody

syllabic- one pitch per syllable

melismatic- more than 1 pitch per syllable

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meter
Definition

grouping beats into regular unite

duple- groups of 2

triple-groups of 3

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syncretism
Definition
blending musical influences from different cultures
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Santur
Definition
dulcimer
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Origins of throat singing
Definition
natural and supernatural, was believed that the spirits were listening
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sygyt
Definition
high whistling in throat singing
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kargyrra
Definition
the drone or undertone in throat singing
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Animism
Definition
making music mimic the sounds of nature in orderto establish a spiritual connection
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Listening style of throat singing
Definition
timbral (matching)
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Iconicity
Definition
to imitate=iconicity=assimilating spiritual energy or power
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6 ideologies
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Evolutionist, Neo-evolutionist, Functionalist, Interactionist, Semiotics, Phenomenological
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