Fine Art: Music Exam 2

West Africa - Fontomfrom Ensemble: Fontomfrom

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West Africa - Ewe People of Ghana and Togo: Dzigbordi Dance Drumming

West Africa - Palms Down: Lamban

West Africa - Toumani Diabate: Kaira

West Africa - The Seckou Keita Quartet: Dounuyah

West Africa - Angelique Kidjo: Okanbale

Latin America - Grupo Afrocuba: Las Leyendas de Grecia

Latin America - La Orquesta Folkorica Nacional Cubana: Angoa

Orquesta America: Los Marcianos

Latin America - Xavier Cugat: Brasil

Latin America - Orquesta de Enrique Jorrin: La Enganadora

Latin America - Tito Puente: Oye Como Va

Latin America - Santana: Oye Como Va

Trinidad and Tobago: Young Brigade and the Mighty Spitfire: Calypso Tent: The Ugly One

Trinidad and Tobago - Lovey’s Trinidad String Band: Mango Vert

Trinidad and Tobago - Growling Tiger: Money is King

Trinidad and Tobago - Amoco Renegades: Dus’ in Dey Face

Trinidad and Tobago - Mighty Sparrow: Sparrow Come Back Home

Trinidad and Tobago - Calypso Rose: Her Majesty

Trinidad and Tobago - Kurt Allen: Too Bright

Ireland - Josie Sheain Jeaic: An Caiptin Mailleach

Ireland - Burning Bridget Cleary: Hornpipe Set

Ireland - Seamaisin: Reel Set: Coalminer’s, Sonny Martin’s, The New Copper Plate

Ireland - Callan: Jig Set: The Tenpenny Bit, The Dirty Lough/Chloe’s Passion/The Curlew Tenpenny Bit

Ireland - Seamus Ennis: The First House in Connaught/The Copper Plate Reel

Ireland - Sean O’Riada: Dingle Regatta

Ireland - The Chieftains: The Wind that Shakes the Barley/The Reel with the Beryle

India - Vangala Kasinatha Sarma: Saraswathi Suktham

India - Ravi Shankar: Dadra

India - Ravi Shankar: Maru-Bihag

India - Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar: Raga Piloo

India - Shakti: Joy

India - Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: Raga Maru Bihag

Indonesia - Jagra Parawaka: Gong Kebyar

Indonesia - Seka Gong and Taruna Mekar: Kebyar

Indonesia - Chuck Jonkey: Kecak Ceremony Part 1

Indonesia - Ricky Sadha: Balaganjur

benefits of studying world music:

1. global neighbors

2. music as a clue to culture

3. recognize cultural elements

   1. revelations about your own culture

definition of world music

all music of all people living everywhere in the world

definition of ethnomusicologists

trained to study the social and cultural aspects of music around the world

cautions for learning about world music

we are accustomed to the sounds of the Western world.

“world music” is not just folk music

Characteristics of West African music:

• integrated into daily life

• community event

• complex polyphony

• social metaphor for an “ideal society”

• conversational

• call-and-response

• percussion timeline

definition of Kora

most popular instrument in African music. a 21-stringed instrument.

definition of Jeli and Griot music:

from the Mande people who come from the Mali Empire

definition of Jeli/Jali

professional Mande musicians

definition of Griot

class of traveling artists

what is Seckou Kieta

the “Kieta” family is a noble family of Jeli, and Seckou kieta is a noble rebel group of Jeli

who is Angelique Kidjo

she performs “world beat” music which is a combination of Jeli music and music from other cultures

she is the “diva from Benin”

influenced by traditional Beninese music along with American and British funk and rock

Afro-Cuban dance music has roots in what and why?

many Central American countries have African roots because of the Atlantic Slave Trade

the Cuban _____ is an indigenous dance from the early 1800s.

Rumba

Instruments used in the Rumba are the _____ (a single headed barrel shaped drum) and the ______ (two instruments of the same name that are tapped together and create an ostinato).

conga, claves

In the 1920s, Spaniard-Cubans created the ______ which contained West African dance rhythms with popular European traditions such as the waltz or minuet.

Danzon

The standard accompaniment to the Danzon is known as the ________ Ensembles which contain sweet instruments such as the flute, violin, piano, guitar, maracas, and guiro.

Charanga

In the 1930s, the Danzon ______ became a new popular style. It was faster, hotter, and more Afro-Cuban. It had more prominent ostinatos and improvised flute solos. There were more musicians and used the conga and cowbell.

Mambo

Xavier _____ and Desi Arnaz were responsible for bringing ______ music to the United States and popularizing it.

Cugat, Latin

The ___ ___ ___ was invented by Enrique Jorrin to cater to ___-Latin people in the 1950s.

cha cha cha, non

A fast, aggressive, and ________ dance for the New York City Dance Halls was/is called the ______.

syncopated, Mambo

The Mambo Kings:

1. Prado

2. Machito

   1. Puente

Most famous Latin Salsa band was/is ________, and they popularized the classic song ____ _____ __.

Santana, Oye Como Va

The popularity of the Mambo gave way to the ______ Craze in the 1970s.

Salsa

Salsa is an umbrella term for Afro-Cuban music with ___ influences and eventually made its way back to Latin America.

NYC

Trinidad and Tobago were a former ______ colony with their native population called ________.

Spanish, Amerindians

The Spanish began colonization of T & T in ____ with ______ colonization beginning in the 1780s.

1498, French

The Spanish and French brought _____ to Trinidad and Tobago.

slaves

_______ or Feast of the Flesh is celebrated before Lent begins.

Carnival

______ Carnaval: the night before Ash Wednesday (many call it Shrove Tuesday)

white

_________ were often performed by white middle and upper class families

Masquerades

Slave Carnival: slaves were ________ to their houses/neighborhoods

confined

The slaves’ version of Carnival was called ________.

canboulay

_________: a competition between two men each armed with a long, wooden staff to see who could draw first blood from the other’s head.

Stickfighting

A _________ was a herald for a stickfighter, announcing his arrival

Chantwell

________ Bands are supporting bands for the chantwells.

Kalinda

1834: _____ _______ emancipated all slaves. They were now allowed to participate in _____ Carnival.

Great Britain, White

1900: Further integration of population with migration of eastern _____ and _______ resulted in _______ Carnival.

Asians, Indians, combined

Combined Carnival led to the birth of _______.

Calypso

Calypso _____ housed performers of chantwells.

Tents

The term “______” led to the term “calypso”

“Kaiso”

____ Bands accompanied calypsonians with string and woodwind instruments.

Mas’

The first “Calypso Kings”:

Growling Tiger and Roaring Lion

1950: ______ _______ is credited with creating a standardized genre of calypso.

Mighty Sparrow

The first female winner of the national Calypso Kings competition was Calypso ____.

Rose

______ Bamboo Bands created when African drums were outlawed in 1881 due to their overwhelming “______” power

Tamboo, primitive

Tamboo Bamboo Bands led to _____ Drum bands.

Steel

Steel Drums became the national instrument of T & T in _____.

1950

1963 was the first _______ Steel Pan competition.

national

Sean Nos: a song sung in _____.

Gaelic

_____ were informal gatherings involving dancing and music at a local tavern

Ceili

_______ were casual meetings of instrumentalists where music was played with no dancing.

Sessions

_______: an Irish dance in duple meter.

Hornpipe

_____: an Irish dance in quadruple meter.

Reel

___: a fast Irish dance in triple meter

Jig

Irish Dance Music Instruments:

Irish _____

Whistle/________

______ Flute

______ (hand drum)

______ Pipes (smaller than Scottish bagpipes)

Spoons/_____

Irish Fiddle

Pennywhistle

Wooden Flute

Bodhran

Uillean

Bones

Radio ______ was a national radio station to promote traditional Irish music

Eireann

Seamus ____ traveled across Ireland to record Irish music in its _____ context and environment.

Ennis, original

1949 marked Irish _______ and a _______ interest in Irish culture

independence, renewed

____ O’Riada helps start Irish music ______.

Sean, revival

The _______ are the most famous traditional Irish band and have the commonly accepted sound of Irish music

Chieftains

The _____ are the early religious writings of Hinduism and the ______ is a sung version of the Vedic texts.

Vedas, Bhajan

_________ Classical Music is rooted in the Vedic texts and Bhajan devotional songs.

Hindustani

____ Shankar is the most important Classical Indian musician of all time.

Ravi