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World Music Chapter 1-4
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Undergraduate 4
06/17/2009

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Ethnocentrism
Definition
judge things from own perspective
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Ethnomusicology
Definition

study of music in context

(culture, anthropology)

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folk
Definition
amateurs for their community enjoyment
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popular
Definition

professionals for mass audience,

selling as commodity

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art music
Definition
professionals, depth of expression, audience less important or classical music
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Tuning systems
Definition

determining frequencies represented

Western culture - 12 tone equal temperment Aeolian - A minor

Ionian - C major

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Tonality
Definition
melody revoles around "tonic"
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Modes
Definition
>>pentatonic >>hexatonic >>octatonic
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pentatonic
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hexatonic
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octatonic
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Musical stress and syncopation
Definition

stress--a sense of expectation, new beginning of beats or grouping and subdivisions

 

Syncopation--metrical stress of a note is displaced so that empasis occurs on normally unstressed beats

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Textures
Definition

Monophony

Polyphony

Homophony

Heterophony

Drone

Drum polyphony

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Monophony
Definition
one voice (unison)
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Polyphony
Definition
2 or more independent voices
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Homophony
Definition
melody + accompanyment
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Heterophony
Definition

start same,

every one then improvises simultaneously

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Drone
Definition
a long constant pitch played throughout all or part of composition--foundation reference point
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Drum polyphony
Definition
drum accompanyment
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tessitura
Definition
where the melody lies in relation to the range of instrument
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