Word Music vs. Western Music
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Music relflects the society that creates it. Music is the universal language but other other areas use different ways of words or meanings in their music |
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Jali
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1. Specialize in historical knowledge.
2. Evoke noble ancestry that could either help or hurt status of a person
3. determine questions of inheritance
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Classical concert literature
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1. Elitist activity
2. Very formal
3. Composed in past centuries and treated with great reference
3. Most music performed is between 100-250 years old
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Folk music exists in sophisticated societies alongside classical music and continues to be performed in rural areas away from the educated, It is often several generations old. |
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Performed by an all-male cast, includes dancing as well as lively traditional drama, and is accompanied by three different instrumental ensembles.
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The concert lasted more that four hours.
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Shinto religion, medieval courtly ochestral music ("elegant music") |
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Traditional music is played on a group of instruments made up primarily of metal percusion.
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"Musical ensemble"
Small orchestra with metal percusion.
Include:
1.xylophone – high, medium, and low
2.bronze bowls
3.gongs
4.skin headed drums and 5. Fiddle
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A type of theater that derived from medieval samuari period. It is highly stylized, elegant, and formal.
Reflects the samurai’s philosophy of simplicity, submission to Buddha, and personal enlightenment;
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Musical instrument used in Kabuki Theater;
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Musical performance is geared toward the new urban and middle-class populations. It includes entertaining stage works as well as instrumental compositions for master musicians. |
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formed when three or more differentnotes are played together;
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Secular vocal works, often in Italian, for a small group of singers.;
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Scales in Western Music;
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Major Scale- major mode
Minor Scale- Minor mode;
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built on a keynotes
called the (I) chord becauses the keynote is the first note of the scale;
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(chord v)
in a key is second in importance to the tonic chord. Built on the fifth note of the scale. In any key, always sounds as though it requires resolution back to the tonic chord.;
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we use the first seven letters of the alphabet to indicate notes: A B C D E F and G |
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String Instruments;
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Permanent members of the classical orchestra: violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass.
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Are like punctuation in grammer. They provide stopping points in the flow of the discourse.
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Language for Dynamic Markings;
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(p) piano soft
(mp) mezzo piano medium soft
(pp) pianissimo very soft
(f) forte loud
(mf) messzo forte medium loud
(ff) fortissmio very loud;
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Most frequent form in small units such as melodies and themes. Also quite common on a far larger scale in music. |
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by plucking the strings with fingers instead of using the bow.;
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Lowest Woodwind Instrument;
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Made of metal, and, like the clarinet, it has a single reed.
Invented in the mid-nineteenth century; it is used mostly in jazz.;
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often known as the French Horn
associated with ;outdoor; sounds like hunting calls;
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very powerful and grand, sometimes even frightening
produces a rich, smooth, and mellow sound;
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important feature of the symphony orchestra since the late 18th century. 2-4 drums in a circle
Played with padded sticks or hard wooden ones;
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Used in symphonies, in operas, in chamber music, and a solo instrument in the 17th-18th centuries.
Predecessor of piano;
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King of instruments
air is propelled through pipes and the route the air takes is controlled from the keyboard.;
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type of music that was intellectually demanding, more for listening than for dancing. Known as bop or bebop;
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Popular composer for German Songs;
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it conforms to the spirit and form of a favorite eighteenth-centruy ballroom dance. Appeared with symphonies |
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Orchestra Instrument Familes;
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1. strings
2. woodwinds;
3. brass
4. percussion;
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;Percussion instrument, also an instrument that plays ;pitched sounds;
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something indicating the speed at which a piece should be played;
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A texture that involves meloday with no occompaniment |
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Music that moves by chords, sometimes called song texture;
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Music in which you can hear two or more distinct musical lines at once;
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Another name for the keynote
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Almost every memorable tune is dominated by a; ____?
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contains the noes of a chord played consecutively rather than simultanesously |
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a compostion for a small number of voices, usually on some set theme such as the beauty of nature or the pain of love |
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People making up the music as they go along;
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African instrument made of a small wooden box or guard with then metal stips attached;
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A melody being separated into sections;
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The term used to describe the exact highness or lowness of a note;
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The distance between any two pitches;
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Notes c to c an 8 count;
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The closest possible interval;
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The intervals of a second from c to d and a seventh c to the b above it, sound harsh;
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When 2 notes played together sound pleasing or stable;
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Loudness and softness, an intrinsic part of the character of most music;
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Japanese instrument plucked like a zither;
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Japense plucked instrument with 3 strings and a long neck;
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focuses on the idea of contrast;
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