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| a branch of philosophy concerned with ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, form and affect |
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| The power in an object or experience that makes a person feel something in response. |
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| Tones that sound simultaneously |
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| The way of life of a people, transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| A rhythm without a recurring accent pattern |
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| A named standard unit of the repertory. Genre can refer to types of music as well and sometimes is used to describe a musical style that is synonymous with its genre (for example, bluegrass.) |
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| Music that accompanies a melody |
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| Two or more voices or instruments elaborating the same melody in slightly different ways. |
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| A dominant melody with an accompanying harmony. |
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| The distance in pitch between two tones |
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| The familiar do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do of Euro-American music. The white keys on the piano, from C to c, yield the major scale. |
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| The principal tune in a piece of music, consisting of a succession of tones in a particular rhythm over a period of time |
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| A rhythm with a recurring accent pattern |
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| A procedure in which patterns in music are revealed by breaking the music into its component parts and determining how the parts operate together to make the whole. |
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| The structure of a musical piece or performance; ;how it is put together (what patterns it has) and how it works. |
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| A small series of musical tones that is understood as a meaningful group or unit |
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| The way musical sound is organized, depending on a music-culture’s aesthetics |
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| Two tones, the second of which is exactly twice the frequency of the first. When men and women sing the same melody, they usually sing an octave apart. |
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| the “frequency” of a tone, depending on the vibrations of its sound waves in cycles per second. |
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| A combination of two or more distinct melodies |
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| Time-relationship among a succession of sounds. |
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| An ordered, step-wise arrangement of all the principal tones in the octave within a piece of music. |
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| The relationship of melodies and harmony |
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| The quality that gives voices and instruments their characteristic sound; why a trumpet sounds different from a violin even when they play the same pitch. |
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| A musical sound with a definite pitch |
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| A musical form in which one part seems to be linked as a “response” to the previous part. The response part appears to be an “answer” or “comment” on the first or “call” part. |
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| An elaborate curing ritual among the Navajos featuring many songs and war drama |
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| A high voice that comes from the head rather than the chest. |
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| An end-blown instrument like the recorder except that two of the holes are in the back and closed with the thumbs, whereas on the recorder one is in the back and is closed with the left thumb. |
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| A religous movement that began in Mexico in the nineteenth century and spread to the United States, particularly in the American Southwest. Its music, rituals and beliefs combine Christian and Native elements. |
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| Sounding all the frequencies between two pitches of an interval in sequence, upward or downward, as in the sound produced by a slide-whistle; synonymous with portamento |
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| Sounding all the frequencies between two pitches of an interval in sequence, upward or downward, as in the sound produced by a slide-whistle; synonymous with slide |
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| The last brief section of a song; an Indian term similar to Coda in Western classical theory |
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| The apparent speed of a piece of music; how slow or fast it appears to be going. |
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| In western music theory, the basic tone, or note, of a melody or a section of a piece; the most important pitch; usually the pitch that occurs most often; often the last tone of a melody, the pitch that the melody seems to be gravitating toward. |
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| syllables that do not make up words |
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o Starts off with whistling and drums
o 5 Points
Post office at the University of Accra, in Ghana
They are whistling the hymn “Bompata”
The men are canceling stamps
Two men whistling, three making percussive sounds
Each stamp gets canceled multiple times |
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o Starts off with coyote-like sounds (yelling) (unintelligible words)
o Sounds like ‘typical’ Indian music
o 5 points
It is a falsetto
It covers more than an octave
It’s a traditional war dance
The song ends on a slide
This is vocables |
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o The old sounding woman almost talking
o 5 points
Takes place in western New Mexico
There are only two pitches
The meter is flexible
Recorded in 1950
It contrasts plains singing (No typical Indian style) |
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o Starts off with one guy saying “cono hono swee gay he ha”
o Has one guy singing in the background
o Homophonic
o 5 points
Called “Gadasjot”
Also called Warrior’s Stomp Dance
Uses the “call-and-response” form
The dancers follow the leader’s “short jog step”
They use a cow-horn rattle |
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o Starts off with a whoop
o 5 points
From the “Nightway ceremony”
Yeiibichai means “Gods-their-grandfathers”
Occurs on the last night of a 9 night ceremony
The masked dancers are impersonating the gods and bringing supernatural powers and blessings to help cure a sick person
Has lots of falsetto singing. |
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o Starts off humming “oooooooo” then “ha nay yah” repeated
o 5 points
Means “I’m in luck”
The girl is plowed and leaning on the window to keep herself up
A satire against the fact that guys are typically the ones who drink too much
Meant to make the girls laugh
The song offers courtship opportunities |
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o The Hymn from the Native American Church
o They use a water drum and a rattle to accompany the singing
o Starts off with a baby’s rattle and an old sounding Indian chanting
o 5 points
A hymn from the Native American Church
They use a water drum
No words, the meaning comes from the simple vocables
The peyote rattle is make from a gourd mounted on a stick
Many listeners use a fan made of feathers to waft the fragrance of the incense toward them. |
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