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MUL 2720 Exam 2
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/21/2012
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Intonation
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Refers to the extent to which notes match the "correct" pitch. Precise intonation means matching standard pitches in cycles per second of the Euro-American chromatic style.
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Blue Notes
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Occurs when both regular and flatted forms of certain scale degrees are used (often with sliding in between these scale pitches)
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Blues
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The music of play in black America.
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Shuffle Beat
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Long-Short, Long-Short - By connecting together the first two notes in each group of three 1 2 3, 1 2 3, 1 2 3, = long-short, long-short, long-short, long-short.
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Syncopation
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Accenting normally unaccented beats or accenting notes that occur in between beats
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Blues Progression
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Riff
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Bridge
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Ud
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Sephardic
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Ashkenazic
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Klezmer
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Asymmetrical
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Scales
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Tonic
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Dominant
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Triads
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Ganga
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Palimpset
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Vedas
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Sanskrit
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Dharma
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Tamil
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Bhajan
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Carnatic Music
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Ragas
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Talas
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Drone
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Kriti
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Veena
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Mridangam
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Fusian
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