World Music

soundscape

all sounds in environment

frequency

how fast something is

pitch

highness/lowness of sound

Timbre

sound/quality/color

fundamental

lowest pitch

overtones

pitches above fundamentals

khoomii

tuvan throat singing

katajjuq

inuit vocal game

vibrate

small pitch variation

falsetto

very high singing voice

ethnomusicology

music + Culture

organology

study of instruments

Idiophone

instrument itself vibrates

membranophone

membrane vibrates

chordophone

strings vibrate

aerophone

air vibrates

range

distance between high and low pitches

scale

ordered groups of pitches

tala

indain rythmic cycle

raga

Indian melodic framework

Pentatonic

five-note-scale

ornamentationn

music decoration

conjunct

stepwise melody

disjunct

melody with jumps

drone

long sustained pitch

Folkmusic

Community/traditional music

monophony

one melody

biphony

2 layers

homophony

melody + accompaniment

Polyphony

mutiple independent melodies

heterophoney

same melody with variations

harmony

chords/pitch together

beat

steady pulse

syncopation

unexpected beat is emphasized

strophic

same music for multiple verses

refrain

repeated section

composition

planned music

improvisation

music created in the moment

highlife

ghanainan popular music

polyrthythm

mutilple rthymes together

atumpan

African drum

guru

indian music teacher

playback singer

singer for movie vocals

ballad

storytelling song

fado

portugese song tradition

diaspora

people spread from homeland

guiarron

large mariachi bass instrument

charro

mexican horseman/cowboy

piob mhor

scottish highland bagpipe

canntaireachd

sing that initates bagpipes

pibroch

scottish bagpipe music

ceilidh

scottish social gatherings