Pitch
highness/lowness of a sound
Interval
distance btw 2 pitches
Octave
8 Pitches
Tonality
hierarchy, home pitch (do)
Sound
pitch, interval, tonality
Music
sound organized by humans
Scale
diatonic, pentatonic, chromatic
Diatonic Scale
8 pitches
Pentatonic Scale
5 pitches
Chromatic Scale
Half Steps
Textures
Monophonic, Heterophonic, Homophonic, Polyphonic
Monophonic
1 sound (multiple voices singing same melody)
Heterophonic
2 or more voices (voice + violin) singing the 1 melody
Homophonic
1 predominant melody with background support (drums & violins)
Polyphonic
several melodies @ 1 time
beat
steady pulse
meter
duple/triple
rhythm
organization of sounds and silence
dynamics
volume of music
tempo
speed of music
accelerando
speed up
ritardando
slowing down
accent
emphasized note or beat
Motive
Hook
phrase
place where you take a breath, short group of notes together
ostinado
short phrase repeated again
ornamentation
trills, vibrato, melismas
melisma
group of pitches to one syllable of text
acapella
just voices
vocable
words that have no meaning (ex. la la la)
strophic
song form, melody repeated
aerophone
air
chordaphone
strings
membranophone
drums
idiophone
piano, something hitting itself
Jackson Administration
1828-1837
Wounded Knee
1890
culture
the way of life of a people, learned and transmitted from one generation to the next
music culture
a group of people’s total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, artifacts — everything that has to do with music
Music Performance Model
Music, Performers, Audience, Time & Space
Music Culture Model
Affective experience, performance, community, memory/history