Bryant Collins General MUMH 3030 Study Guide Terms 1 Culture the way of life of a people learned and transmitted from one generation to the next 2 Biophony the combined voices of living things 3 Music Culture Components A groups total involvement with music ideas actions institutions material objects Everything that has to do with music 4 Delayed Evolution the so called simpler cultures of the world 5 Soundscape referring to sound The characteristic sounds of a particular place both human 6 Acoustic ecology A discipline studying of the relationship mediated through sound between and nonhuman living being and their environment 7 Matrilineal the kinship with the mother or the female line 8 Patrilineal the kinship with the father or the male line 9 Ethnomusicology the study of many music sounds around the world that emphasize their culture social material cognitive biological and other dimensions or contexts instead of or in addition to its isolated sound component or any particular repertoire Tuva say oo 1 Hoomei Mongolian word for throat A three sometimes four note style with the mouth to 2 Sygyt high whistle A two sometimes three note style with the mouth shaped to say ur 3 Kargyraa low general sound A three sometimes four note style with the mouth shaped to say uh oh oo ah 4 Shamanism an ancient healing tradition and way of life A practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to interact with the spirit world 5 Animism the attribution of a soul to plants inanimate objects and natural phenomena 6 Ondar Full name is Kongar ol Ondar and was a master throat singer and a member of the Great Khural of Tuva 7 Paul Pena Blind bluesman who learned the ways of Tuva singing traveled to Kyzyl to participate in the Khoomei competition Know as Cher Shimjer Earthquake and used it in his music Featured in the movie Genghis Blues alongside with Kongar ol Ondar 8 Throat Singing A form of overtone singing in the Tuvan community Native Americans 1 Plains Indians Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have traditionally lived on the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies in North America 2 Sioux Lakota patrilineal lived in Teepees nomadic hunters gathers were individuality praised had a wide melodic range forced sound in their songs 3 Zuni Pueblo Settled with large communities agricultural limited melodic range kivas were traditional dwellings 4 Navajo Dine The People lived in Hogans Hooghans complicated language used as code talkers in WWII matrilineal and matrilocal Bryant Collins 5 Iroquois hunters gathers but not nomadic women owned the land while the men hunted 3 tribes Turtle Bear and Wolf had certain rules call response calling part of 6 nations 6 Cherokee part of 5 civilized nations were in the Trail of Tears bi cameral governmentl written language call and response singing as well 7 Trail of Tears The Cherokee nations were forced to give up their lands and migrate from the 8 Hunters Gathers People went into the wild to hunt for food and once the food was killed the Mississippi River to an area in Oklahoma gathers would take it back to the tribe 9 Tipi also know as teepee a place of living for Native American tribes Shaped in a concial and traditionally made of animal skins upon wooden poles 10 Longhouse a meetinghouse with the stove at each end of the hall and benches along the sides 11 Hogan Also know as Hooghan it was a place of living in which all Hogans were the center of 12 Pow wow Contemporary ceremonial and spiritual gatherings featuring food singing and 13 Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show A circus like attraction that featured military cowboys American 14 Grass Dance A Sioux War Dance where the braids of grass the dancing warriors used to wear Indians and performers from all of the world at their waists to symbolize slain enemies 15 Quiver Dance Stomp Dance Song is relaxed call response form has a pattern of yowe hi ye the universe dancing ye 16 Nightway Ceremony A 9 day ceremony in which masked dancers impersonate the gods to bring supernatural power and blessing to help cure a sick person Also called a Yeibichai 17 Enemyway Ceremony A 3 day ceremony sung in Spring to help people who are bothered by ghosts of enemies home camp and stick receiver camp water drums used Changing Woman and her son Enemy Slayer deities 18 Shooting Way A ceremonial that reenacts a part of the creation myth in which a hero Holy Young Man goes in search of supernatural power 19 Blessingway A 2 day ceremony which is preventative consisting of classical chant and thousands of lines of text Frank Mitchell learned this from his father in law 20 Stick Receiver Camp Home Camp two groups of participants for the Enemyway ceremony 21 Yeibichai grandfather gods refers to ancestor deities who come to dance at the major 22 Circle Dance A style of dance done in a circle open to close to musical accompaniment such ceremonial known as Nightway as rhythm instruments and singing 23 Sway Song during a enemyway ceremony after finding out about the death of the enemy ghost haunting they sing sway songs to lure it away 24 Hozhoo beauty harmony in the world 25 Sand Painting used in Nightway ceremony the designs depict the deities they contact with these figures to identify the one sung over with the forces of nature they represent and provides protective power 26 Singer Ceremonial practitioner who must memorize every detail in a Nightway ceremony Bryant Collins 27 One Sung Over takes the role of the mythic hero and the songs sandpainting prayers and other rituals acts recount the story of the protagonist s trails and adventures brought to the Nightway ceremony from the supernatural world fro the use of mankind 28 Changing Woman the principal Navajo deity mother in a Enemyway ceremony 29 Enemy Slayer custodians of a stick decorated with symbols of the warrior deity in a Enemyway 30 Holy Young Man tells the story of a hero who goes in search for supernatural powers to the 31 Frank Mitchell Navajo Bleesingway singer Learned Blessingway from his father in law died in 32 Native American Church an Indian movement with roots in ancient Mexico and recent 33 Peyote a small spinless cactus that produces a sense of well being and sometimes visions in ceremony snake country Ganado Arizona in 1968 development in Oklahoma vivid color 34 Roadman a title given to the leader of the peyote ceremony in the Native American Church 35 Quannah Parker 1845 1911 was Comanche English American
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