Music Final pt 1

This set of flashcards covers key concepts from a lecture on music and culture, focusing on neurodegenerative diseases, Native American music, Hawaiian music, and Indian traditional music.

Research has demonstrated that personalized music playlists can be helpful to people who suffer from some neurodegenerative diseases - name one: _.

Alzheimer's

According to musician Bobby McFerrin, what scale seems to be embedded in/comes naturally to all people? _.

pentatonic

Name “The Four” _.

voice, drums, whistles/flutes, string

Most people can vocalize/sing using their voices in two different ways. a) lower or "" voice b) upper or "" voice.

chest; head

Archeologists suggest that people have been living on the North American continent for more than years.

30,000

The United States government lists Native American tribes.

574

It is said that Native American spirituality does not between the material and supernatural world.

differentiate

__ – the “heartbeat of the earth/life” primarily employed to maintain the figurative and literal “pulse.”

Drums

Texture in Native American Vocal music – primarily for solo or multiple voices.

monophonic

Name the person of Native American heritage who wrote and recorded the instrumental song, “Rumble” _.

Link Wray

The person identified in the last question served in which branch of the US military during the Korean War? _.

Army

“Rumble” was in some major cities.

banned

A behavior of sound: environments that lack the ability to are referred to as being "dry."

reflect sound

Name the 4 types of triads: _.

Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented

The early Hawaiian people enjoyed years of isolation/no contact with the rest of the human population.

500

__ was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands by way of hymns/music of the (Christian) church.

Tonal Music

Traditional (Hawaiian) vocal music is based on a form of chant called _.

mele

__ is both monophonic and monotonal.

mele

__ – a (Hawaiian) double gourd percussion instrument.

Ipu Heke

Who wrote, “Aloha ‘Oe”? _.

Queen Liliuokalani

The ukulele is derived from the machete (the 1880s) brought to the Hawaiian Islands by people from _.

Portugal

Portuguese people went to Hawaii to work on/for the _.

plantations

The Hawaiian Islands were annexed by the United States in what year? _.

1898

Who is said to have invented the Hawaiian steel guitar? _.

Joseph Kekuku

There are two major lines of traditional music in India - the northern and the southern _.

Hindustani; Carnatic