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| The study of music in relationship to the culture that produces it with the goal of understanding something of what it is like on the inside of a particular music culture. It rests between anthropology and comparative musicology. |
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A given populations total involvement with music (ceremonial, religious, recreational, professional, commercial, etc.) One music culture may be
distinguished from another by large divisions (nationality) or smaller |
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| How, within culture, music is passed from individual to individual and generation to generation. |
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Purpose for which a given piece of music is written. |
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| 5. Empirical Musical Culture: |
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All the tangible material “things:” related to music
that a culture produces (instruments, sheet music, tape recorders, etc.) |
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| Passing on of traditions from one group/generation to another. |
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| Culturally singular; remaining within the realm of a specific ethnic population. |
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| The sustaining and passing on of information by word of mouth rather than documentation. (Stories, proverbs, riddles, methods of arts and crafts are commonly disseminated by oral tradition.) |
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| Music of non-literate cultures. |
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| 10. Cultural Accommodation |
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Adjustments a given culture makes in order to coexist with a more dominant culture. Accommodation can come about as the resolution of
conflict. |
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| When a culture is brought to abandon its own traditions and take up the traditions of another culture (a population is required/led to set aside its own music/art and subscribe to that of a more dominant culture.) |
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| Mutual influence of different cultures on each other. |
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Results from the instrumentation used in music. Music using few instruments or instruments of light tone color . A flute has light texture.
Music with many instruments or some with heavy tone color is said to have dense
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| Different cultures use the voice varyingly. Singing style refers to the way we use the voice in music. |
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| One note for each syllable of text. |
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| Several notes to a single syllable of text. |
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| Sounds sung that are without literal meaning. |
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| Refers to the overall shape of a piece of music: the number of sections and subdivisions that occur. The architecture of a piece of music. |
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| Different verbal content given to a repeating melody. (E.g. different verses sung to the same melody.) |
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A song in which the music changes throughout instead of being
repeated for a series of verses. |
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| (Sometimes called the chorus in folk/popular songs) Certain lines that are repeated at regular intervals with the music and words remaining the same at each repetition. |
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| Different words spoken on the same tone |
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| A single voice part (sung by one person or several in unison) without accompaniment other than percussion. |
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| Clear and distinct melody with definite secondary accompanimental part. |
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| At least two distinct melodic lines occurring simultaneously. |
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| Refers to speed in music. |
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| Distance between the highest and lowest note in a melody. |
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| The shape of a melody as outlined by its curves, leaps, rises and falls. |
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| All the pitches used in the music of a given culture. |
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| The words used in a piece of music. |
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The character that typifies music as belonging to categories and is determined
by internal logic, structure, and modes of expressions. |
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| The overall sonic character that attracts or is indicative of a given culture. Tone color and texture are its primary components. |
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| The character/quality of a sound. The difference in the sound of the same note played on the bagpipe and on the flute is a difference in tone color. |
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| 34. Instrumentation/Orchestration |
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| The Instruments and sonic materials used in a piece of music. |
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| music performed by two alternating sources - frequently a solo voice and a chorus in a “call and response” pattern. |
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| Occurrence of accents in unexpected places - usually on what are normally weak beats or weak parts of beats...syncopation has a staggered or unexpected rhythmic character. |
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| a musical figure that is repeated over and over again. (Usually associated with an instrumental part). |
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