78 Cards in this Set
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AABB
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type of form from British isles
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Acoustics
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sub branch of physics; scientific study of sound
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African Music traits
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call and response
ostinato
polyrhythm
polyphonic texture
buzzy timbres
textural density
over lapping phrases
interlocking phrases
ground and elaboration parts
participatory
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Amplitude
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Power of Sound; loudness
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Apartheid
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System of state sponsored racism
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Bela Fleck
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Banjo-Throw Down Your Heart
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Binary Form
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2 Parts
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Bira
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Spirit position ceremony in Zimbabwe
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Cadence
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Pause between phrases
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Call and Response
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Sing a line, sing back; coversational
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Cecil Rhodes
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Owned Mines
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Chimurenga
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Meaning political struggle
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Chordophone
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String Instrument
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Colonialism
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Foreign authority for the purpose of extracting resources
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Contour
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Musical Shape
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Counterpoint
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Type of Texture; polyphonic; multiple voice
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Dynamics
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loudness
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Edward Hall
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Non-verbal communication
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Electronophone
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Uses an amp
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Ensemble
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More than one instrument
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Evelyn Glennie
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Deaf Drummer in "Touch the Sound."
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Fixed Pitch
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Does not move around:
Piano, Harp, Xylophone
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Flow
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State of mind; in the here and now; good for your mind
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Form
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Architectural structure of music
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Frequency
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Speed at which something vibrates
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Griot
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West African Musician, historian, and storyteller
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Ground and Elaboration
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Type of texture; pair of drummer
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Heterophonic Tecture
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Simultaneous variations
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Homophonic
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Harmony
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Hosho
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Rattle
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Hut tax
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Put a tax on anything
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Idiophone
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Whole thing rattles
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Inside/Outside the house
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Worldview
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Joseph Shabalala
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Leader of Ladysmith
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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10 Piece African male a capella group from Durban, Africa.
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Loudness
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How loud something is
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Marimba
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Like an xylophone
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Mbira
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Thumb Piano
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Melody
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Succession of pitches
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Melody and Drone
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Type of Texture; held pitch then melody
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Membranophone
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Drum; stretched membrane
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Meter
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Organization of pulses
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Monophonic
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Single Voice Texture
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Non-verbal Communication
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No using words or sounds
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Optimal Experience
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Sense of flow
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Oral Transmission
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Show not read
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Ostinato
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Short repeating phrase
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Overtones
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Partial Vibrations
Secondary Pitches
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Participatory Music
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Physically involved
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Phrase
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Short complete musical idea
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Pitch
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Highness or lowness of a tone; determined by frequency
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Polyglot
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Speaks many languages
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Polyphony
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Many Voices
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Polyrhythm
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Many rhythms
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Popular Music
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Involved in Cash Economy
Musicians ear all or part of their living
Mass Mediated
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Pulse
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The beat
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Resonator
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Part of an instrument to make it resonate
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Rhythm
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All the aspects of rhythms that deal with time
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Sliding pitch
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Not steady;
Trombone
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Spirit Medium
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"Crazy People"
People who call the spirts
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Spirit Possession
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When the spirits are present
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Synchronizing
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In the groove; together
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Tempo
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Speed of piece
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Ternary form
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3 parts
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Texture
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Relationship of instruments in an ensemble
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Thomas Mapfumo
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Zimbabwean musician; sharp criticism of the government of President Robert Mugabe. He both created and made popular Chimurenga music and his slow-moving style and distinctive voice is instantly recognizable to Zimbabweans.
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Throw Down Your Heart
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Film about banjo in Africa
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Timbre
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Voice of an instrument
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Touch the Sound
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Evelyn Glenie: Deaf drummer
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Vibrator
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In every instrument to make a noise/sound
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Zimbabwe
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Country in Southern Africa
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Daxophone
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Ideophonic
Hans Reichel
Wood in an shape, with magnetic pickup, played with a violin bow
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"Condon's Frolics/Eavesdropper"
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Irish traditional dance tunes, played on the uilleann pipes
Paddy Kennan
Monophonic at beginning, and homophonic when guitar enters.
AABB
Jig
6/8 meter
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Postal Workers in Ghana
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West Africa
Hand-canceling stamps
Song creates a flow experience in which the work gets done in an entertaining and time flies by
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"Homeless"
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Ladysmith Black MAmbazon
Album: Graceland
Sung in Zulu and English
Horror of the apartheid policy
During the time of the Cultural Boycott
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"Rabeza"
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Tarika Sammy: Afro-Pop from Madagascar
Bamboo tube zither (string)
2-beat against 3-beat rhythm
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"Nyamausango"
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Mbira, with hosho on the triplet
Mbira is used in bira ceremonies which spirits are invited to possess a spirit medium
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"Kwaedza Mu Zimbabwe"
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Thomas Mapfumo
Mbira to a contemporary urban guitar band format
Nationalist Movement in 1970's
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MUS 152: EXAM 1