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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
