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Music 311- Exam 1
History of American Music
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Undergraduate 3
09/13/2011

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Unison
Definition
sang at the same time
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Heterophonic
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overlap between voices singing slightly different versions of the same melody
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Vocables
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neutral syllables
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lifeways
Definition
cultural norms that were taught by song/story
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how were songs usually passed in native american culture
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oral tradition
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Robert Miribel
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combining tradition with modern music in the native american world
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powwows
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intertribal gathering
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Rasps
Definition
percussion instrument with groves notched out of it that are rubbed with a stick
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Carlos Nakai
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classically trained trumpet player who became fascinated with navajo flute sounds
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Louis Ballard
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composer, music educator, and music journalist
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Spanish Traditions
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"mission" music
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Alabados
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spanish hymn
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corridos
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relate the unofficial history of Mexican or Mexican American communities to their heroes
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ballads
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story telling songs
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norteno
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tex-mex music
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Vernacular Music
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common language music
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British Traditions
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used fiddle
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Broadside
Definition
sheet music written and printed on very large sheets of paper
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Bunt Stevens
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Important in European Tradition (used fiddle and foot stomp)
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"Barbara Allen"
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Example of a Folk Ballad
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African Traditions
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Field Holler; Ring-Shouts; Work Song
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Chanteys
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Sailors work songs
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Field Hollers
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loud; rhythmically flexible; emotionally expressive chants or cries sung by one person. (Ex: Sad Whoa song and Father's Field Call)
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Ring Shout
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religious services or camp meetings; formed a ring and shuffled energetically to the singing of a spiritual
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Work Songs
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accompanied such rhythmic tasks as rowing, hoeing, or chopping trees (often improvised) (Ex: Hammer Ring)
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Freedom Songs
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Ex: No More Auction Block for Me
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banjos
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African gourd instrument
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Drone
Definition
a repeated tone of constant pitch
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Eephing
Definition
craziness with gasps and raspberry
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Psalm Tunes
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Religious music
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Martin Luther
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Protestant Reformation- wanted church music in the vernacular
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psalters
Definition
metered and rhymed psalm verses printed in this book
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Geneva Psalter
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earliest psalter
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Sternhold and Hopkins
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Puritans Psalter
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Bay Psalm Book
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first printed book in the US; drew melodies from favorites and edited them;
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Ainsworth Psalter
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Pilgrims Psalter
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Maravians
Definition
from Bohemia and Maravia and came here to escape persecution; They believed music was part of their everyday education. Knew their theory. Settled in GA, NC, then founded Bethlehem, PA
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John Antes
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Maravian composer; Gorgeous 4 part harmony.
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Through Composed
Definition
No repetition
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Great Awakening
Definition
renewed interest in religion and music
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Line Out
Definition
Sing line by line and repeat
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Singing School Movement
Definition
traveling "singing schools". Eventually became the First New England School of Composers
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William Billings
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Singing School Master; Wrote The New England Psalm Singer- printed by Paul Revere

When Jesus Wept

CHESTER
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Fuging Tune
Definition
First Section in Harmony then the second section is a canon
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
accomplished violinist
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Program Music
Definition
Music that tells a story (instrumental)
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Chamber music
Definition
began with the secular music
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Ben Franklin
Definition
nationalistic views about music; invented the glass harmonica or armonica
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Francis Hopkinson
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1st Secretary of the Navy; originated "art songs"
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Fife and Drum Corps
Definition
Originated during the Revolutionary War; flute and drums; modeled after British bands; they were at the front of the lines and it was unwritten that you didn't go after them. The songs had different meanings to the troops such as waking up/ moving/ coordinating them in battle

Ex: Yankee Doodle
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