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MHIS 130 Final Exam
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/19/2011

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Term
What festival quollas performed?
Definition
Virgen de la Carmen (which breaks social norms and reverses them comparable to mardi gras)
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Rake 'n' scrape(Caribbean); instruments; Compared to indigenous African music
Definition
Saw, accordion, goat skin drum, clave(double bell sound). Interlocking melodies/rhythm,buzzy timbre, ostenati (Repetition), indefinate length, improv after establishment.
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Currolao
Definition
carribean influence, marimba, interlocking parts, ostenato, syclic form, structure, never know when piece is over, hours and days of music, circularity, basic grooves and riffs, trance, social dance, spanish infuence also, 18/19th century, frilly spanish dresses
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Rake 'n' Scrape; Bohemian Religion
Definition
Obeah
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Rake 'n' scrape v. Pop
Definition
guitar, bass, back up (doo wop) vocals,
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Punta
Definition
steel drum samples, sugundo (basic pattern), promero (improv) Ex. "Go" - Aziatic
Term
Promero (Rake 'n' scrape)
Definition
Improv
Term
Pow wow
Definition
Pan-American Ritual
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Function of Pow wows
Definition
oral tradition, social, gender norms, religious, ability to integrate society, integrate ceremony and events, supernatural, dancers, vendora
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Pow wow example
Definition
"blackfoot"
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Characteristics of Plain indian music
Definition
Decending plateau melody, hyper male sound, pulse on a pitch using vocables and tense, honor beats (offbeat), drummers do not wear anything special, sounds native, but looks like a regular american, but dancers look intensly sterotypical
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Plain Music V. Eastern Indian Music
Definition
long plateaus, simple phrases; shorter many phrases, modular, no drums in beginning, pitch is low and starts low, call and respinse(hocket, faster call and response)
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intertribalization
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How Plain Indian music influenced all the indian music with Exception to eastern Indian.
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Buskars (Ande Mestizo)
Definition
Street performers, bring music to people and appeals to tourism
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Son (Ande Mestizo)
Definition
Song and dance
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Jarocho
Definition
lyrics style about love and playful and bragging (all male), double entanderes (la bomba as an example)
Term
Wasteco
Definition
violin(no vibrato), different guitars, yodel, flip to falsetto... (voice timbre), guitarist switch off vocal lead, homophonic
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Rake 'n' Scrape examples
Definition
"Ine askin fa much" - Ancient Man, "No, doctor, no" - Mighty Sparrow
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Huasteca Example
Definition
"El Gustito"
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Aymara Example
Definition
"Manuelitas" (lento)
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Virgen de la Carmen Festival Music Examples (Andes, Peru)
Definition
Qollas, Chunchos, Saqras
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