Comparative musicology
Transcription, comparison, origins, dissemination, genealogy, scientific method, “universalist,” “evolutionist.”
Musical Folklore
Preservation, nationalism, education, social context.
Traditional Ethnomusicology
Fieldwork/immersion, Anthropology, cultural relativity, distrust of broad generalities, focus on acculturation and change.
Organology
Study of musical instruments
Aerophones
Instruments that make sound using the vibration of air’ Flutes reeds trumpets
Chordophones
instruments with multiple strings,Sound is produced when string vibrates
Idiophones
The vibration of the instrument itself produces sound, plucked struck or shaken
membranophones
drums
Lute vs Zither

Lute- bowed vs plucked, fretless vs fretted

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Zither- no neck, plucked vs struck

Timbre
overtones or quality of sound
Rhythm
relationship of 2 sounds over time
Melody
Relationship of 2 pitches over time
Harmony
2 sounds with similar pitches making 1 sound
Form
The underlying structure of a musical performance
monophonic
music with a single melodic line
Polyphonic
multiple lines of music performed simultaneously
homophonic
multiple lines of music expressing the same idea
heterophonic
multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
Tuning system
all the pitches common to a musical tradition
interval
distance between 2 pitches
melodic countour
shape of a melody
text setting and the 2 types

rhythmic relationship of words to melody

syllabic- one pitch per syllable

melismatic- more than 1 pitch per syllable

meter

grouping beats into regular unite

duple- groups of 2

triple-groups of 3

syncretism
blending musical influences from different cultures
Santur
dulcimer
Origins of throat singing
natural and supernatural, was believed that the spirits were listening
sygyt
high whistling in throat singing
kargyrra
the drone or undertone in throat singing
Animism
making music mimic the sounds of nature in orderto establish a spiritual connection
Listening style of throat singing
timbral (matching)
Iconicity
to imitate=iconicity=assimilating spiritual energy or power
6 ideologies
Evolutionist, Neo-evolutionist, Functionalist, Interactionist, Semiotics, Phenomenological