What are the 4 components of a music-culture?
Ideas, Activities, Repertoires, Material
The specific quality or color of a musical sound
Timbre
Refers to loudness of softness of musical sounds.
Dynamics
Occurs when 2 or more tones are sounded simultaneously
Harmony
Unit of harmony
chrod
pitch of greatest stability
the tonal center
Succession of musical tones
melody
Frequency
pitch
distance b/w 2 frequencies
interval
Group of pitches that go together
Phrase
Short musical phrase. Repaeted.
Ostinato
2 types of texture
monophonic – one, polyphonic – multiple lines
Design of a piece of music. The structure.
form
How was express duration in music
Rhythm
Underlying pulse
beat
4 categories of Hornbostel-Sachs
aerophones (air), chordophones (strings) membranophones (membrane), idiophones (itself)
3 modes of listening
sensuous, expressive, sheerly
What is an arrangement?
Adaption of an existing work. Changes are made in form, style, or instrumentation
Two styles of Indian Music
North: Hinduston and South: Karmatak
Similarities of North & South Indian music
Form, type of improvisation, structure, instrumentals
Differences of North & South Indian Music
South is more composed and more vocal based
What are the three layers of Indian Classical Music
Melody (voice), Rhythm (drums), Drone (tonal sound)
What is heterophony?
Multiple lines of music. Lines are same except for one.
What is a collection of pitches?
Raga
Indian term for meter
tala
What is the kriti
a fixed and devotional composition
What is alpana
type of improv. showcases melodic performers of raga
what is bollywood?
movies
What is syncopation?
rhythms not corresponding to underlying pulses
What is polyrhythem?
simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms
What is polymeter?
use of two or more metric frameworks
Buzzing timbre, bars struck in center, typically played by one person.
Fixed key xylophones
Bars usually struck at edge, multiple players,
Loose key xylophone
Pentatonic scale, 12 bars, loose-key, three players
Amadina Xylophone