A shared set of beliefs that define a group of people (not racial or geographical)
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Enculturation
How infants learn culture
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Acculturation
2 or more separate cultural groups come together, one is usually dominant
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Appropriation
Take things from environment and make them who we are
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Intra-cultural exchange
Exchange of ideas within you own culture
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Inter-cultural exchange
Exchange of ideas between 2 cultures
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Eurocentric
How you perceive a culture from your own personal view
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Organology
Study of Musical instruments
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Aerophones
Wind instruments
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Chordophones
Guitar strings
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Membranophones
Drums
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Idiophones
Bell
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Electronophones
Mechanical instrument or electrical
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Frequency
Pitch Speed of vibrations in the air
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Amplitude
Volume
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Spectrum
Timbre-harmonics one voice and another one (2 different instruments), how we distinguish quality of sounds
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Rhythm
A series of oral events in patterns time relationship
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Meter
Repeating pattern
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Rubato
Free rhythm, no steady beat
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Melody
Lead voice or lead instrument, how we identify song built on by scales
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Scale
Most common is 5 note scale make up melodies
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Ornamentation
Decoration left up to performer to add stuff
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Syllabic
Separate note for every syllable
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Mellismatic
Singing multiple notes over single syllable
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Harmony
Under the melody spate voices singing at once notes sounding simultaneously
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Chord
3 notes at the same time
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Texture
How the different notes relate to each other
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Monophony
Single line one sound
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Heterophony
2 or more individuals performing same melody with different interpretations
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Polyphony
2 or more separate melodies most of music these days
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Form
How music is arranged from start, middle, end
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Arrival of Indians in America
Between 50000 to 8000 years ago
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European Contact
2 million Indians in US rich in culture
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Difficulties of studying Indian music
Oral culture, no written records, and disease wiped out a lot of Indians
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Role of Music in native culture
Linked to ceremony and ritual
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Link to ritual
Songs come out of animal spirit
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Vision Quest
Individual go out in wilderness and have visions about songs, ritual
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Spiritual power
Music is seen as having power in carrying out the ritual task of a particular ceremony. Correct performance enhances that power
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Efficacy
Ability to carry out the ritual function rather than how it sounds
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Native American musical characteristics
Mostly vocal; Song Form, Vocables, Scales monophonic/heterophonic
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Native American scales
Pentatonic scales most common
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Musical Instruments
Drums, rattles, flutes - most common no string instruments
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Plains style
Intertribal pow-wow dance guest - male singers and low voices and loud accents Midwest region
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Southwest style
Double headed drum, 2 beats, more contours then plain style pushing, intense voices, wider leaps to high note and low note long short beat
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Northwest Pacific
Use of log drums and instruments in shape of animals, deeper sound, associated with pot late associated with power (songs) associated with hunting, darker/rounder voice
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Trail of Tears
Forced movement of Indians to Oklahoma and Texas
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Ghost Dance
A reawakening of Indian dead, seen as war dance seen by US Government, leads to massacre at wounded knee no drums used just voices
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Peyote Cult (Native American Church)
Outgrowth of ghost dance many healing ceremonies
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Pow wow
20th century practice, intertribal gatherings all around US, way for NA to reconnect with traditions
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Plainsong
A simple song, heterophony, not many songs, limited amount, plain
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Psalm books
Hymns
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Bay Psalm Book
First song, book, religious
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Psalm Meter
Amount of syllables per lone
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Common Meter
8-6-8-6
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Long Meter
8-8-8-8
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Short Meter
6-6-8-6, least common meter style
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Praise
Idea of purpose of worship, was of higher power, didn't use a lot of notation with poor people
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Edification
Religious rituals should edify church, complex arrangements
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Lining out
Leader would recite song long then audience would, relates to praise
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Singing Schools
Singing masters and would train people, relates to edification
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"Regular" singing
Good voice production, good singing, trained singing
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William Billings
America's 1st composer of note, New England Psalm-Singer, Publisher, Subscription Sales
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Subscription Sales
How Billings sold them, advertise them with books, and got pre sales, early publishing
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Shape Notes
Notes with different shapes like diamond and square
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Sacred Harp
Most famous shape note
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Lowell Mason
Composer, choir director, developed 1st school for music
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Teacher System
Teach them to sing first then learn how to read music (Mason)
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19th century urban gospel revival
influenced by Great Awakening
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Slave Trade
Worldwide activity half million to US brought their own culture
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African musical traits
Emphasis on percussion and polyrhymths, dance is huge part of music
call and response
heterogeneous sound ideal (idea of a lot of different songs)
vocal style= thick nasal sound
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Polyrhythms
Short interlocking parts
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Regional differences in slavery (north, south)
North-Not as many slaved, more acculturation
South- More plantation culture, a lot more blacks and harsher work, more culture because more people
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African Holiday Festivals
Africans were allied to have holidays, sang and danced, drums were banned except on these days
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Work Songs, Field hollers
People singing in fields
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Evangelism among African Americans
Christianize blacks
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Controversy over Conversion
People thought it would make them free if baptized
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The Great Awakenings
Outdoor religious gatherings in rural areas, people of black and white gathered to sing and dance
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Spirituals
Taking European ideas to an African idea, result of Great Awakenings
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Richard Allen
First African American preacher; African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), Wandering refrains
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African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
Church Created by Allen
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Wandering refrains
Allen song book had call and response system, 2 line phrase and could be inserted into any song, used in a call and response manner
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Ring Shout
Dance when you move in a circle, dances with spirituals, goes with black spirituals, root of all African American music tradition
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Georgia Sea Islands
Islands off Georgia, strong African community
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Cloaked meanings in spiritual texts
Used to communicate messages songs, had encoded meanings, illusions from bible used as code for African Americans about their slavery
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Ballads
Narrative songs originated in Europe, date back to Middle ages, built on series of stanzas that use a strophic text, oral tradition so there are many variations of the songs
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Stanza
Verses sets of 4 or 5
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Strophic text
Music keeps repeating
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Emotional core
Main story, main message remains same in different version despite oral tradition
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Imported Ballad type
From British Isles, from tradition
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Naturalized Ballad type
Text has been changed to be same as local community, songs from BI applied to America
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Native Ballad type
Ballads created in US, propoganda for Revolutionary War
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Broadside ballads
Single sheet of paper set to popular song, hastily written, dealt with topical events, published in newspapers, 1st real commercial music
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Murder ballads
Popular in BI, involves a death, based on real events or supernatural
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Colonial dance music
Lots of dance music, somewhat controversial to more conservative people
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Francis James Child
Traveled through British isles, first effort to study folk music
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Child Ballads
from child; The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
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Cecil Sharp
Went through Appalachians and published them as "Folk songs of the Southern Appalachian", first effort to study folk in America
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Olive Campbell
Was with Sharp from US
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John and Alan Lomax
Expanded beyond ballads, Caribbean music, inspired Urban folk song movement
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Urban Folk song movement
From 1930s music, had a purpose, expression of the working class