MUS 239 Chapters 1-5 Test

Proposition #1

The basic property of all music is sound

Proposition #2

Sounds and silences are organized in some way

Proposition #3

Humanly organized

Proposition #4

Music is a product of human intention and perception

Proposition #5

The term music is inescapably ethnocentric

HIP approach meaning

Human Intention and Perception

Ethnocentrism meaning

Thinking your culture is superior to someone else’s

tone meaning

the quality of the sound (check book)

ethnocentrism

believing that your culture is superior to someone else’s

ethnomusicology definition

the study of music in its social and cultural contexts (Almost any type of human activity that can conceivably be related in some manner to what may be termed as music

musicultural definition

music as sound and music as culture are mutually reinforcing and inseparable

musical syncretism

blending two previously different music styles together to create a new one

vocables

like scatting

composition meaning

the art of creating music

interpretation meaning

how a musician slightly changes the tune

improvization

making up music on the spot

arranging

rewriting a piece of music but still keeping the core idea

fieldwork

involves living for an extended period of time among the people whose lives and music one researches. it is extremely important to ethnomusicological research.

Culture vs society

rooted in ideas, beliefs practices. societies are rooted in social organizations

four properties of tones

duration- rhythm, frequency- pitch, amplitude- dynamics, timbre- tone color

melody range

distance from lowest pitch to highest pitch

melody direction

does melody go up or down?

melody contour

shape of melody. conjunct or disjunct

chromatic vs. pentatonic

chromatic, all twelve notes. Pentatonic, omits 4th and 7th degrees, CDEGA

modulation, enharmonic, and microtone definitions

moving from one key to another, two names for the same note, small steps- microtones

ornamentation, chord/chord progression, arpeggio, harmony definitions

decorating mean notes of melody, multiple pitches simultaneously/movement from one chord to another= chord progression, chords broken up into individual notes, notes together sound right= harmony

acoustic definition

without electrical amplification