Music Introduction

INTRODUCTION 

Culture: a set of beliefs and practices that define a group of people

Music culture: a set of musical  practices that define a group of people 

Enculturation: the way infants learn culture

Acculturation: two or more cultures meet and exchange ideas

Appropriation: the way we pick up ideas in life and incorporate them into who we are

Cultural exchange

Intra-cultural

Inter-cultural

Eurocentric bias

Organology: the study of musical instrument 

Aerophones: wind instruments

Chordophones: string instruments

Membranophones: percussion 

Idiophones: mallet instruments

Electronophones & mechanical instruments: electronic means of creating the sound

Sound & perception: the scientific definition of a sound

Frequency =  pitch

Amplitude = volume

Spectrum = timbre

Rhythm: a set of patterns 

Meter: time signatures

Rubato: the lack of a steady beat, out-of-time moments

Melody: what we hear on the top of the music

Scale: a set of notes

Ornamentation: different styles

Syllabic, melismatic singing

Harmony: what happens underneath the melody, gives music its richness, notes sounding at the same time

Chord: three or more harmonies

Texture: the relationship between the different instruments

Monophony: single-voice

Heterophony: two or more voices playing the same thing

Polyphony: two or more separate parts going on 

Form: how the music is constructed