Music 345 Midterm 2

texture groups

Interlocking parts played by more than one instument creating a unified melodic idea.  

notes with intervals less than a half step, western music

syllables that do not have referntial meaning

musical form in which mousic continuously repeats while the text changes.

musical form in which strophic verses are sung in alternation with a single, repeating chorus. Tend to preform individual songs. 

two parts

song from liturgy

reference patter

a part that repeats teh same rhythm or melodic element

mouth harp

• bitten by a poisonous spider, incsects, scorpions, or snakes. Cure is
• singing and dancing. Symptoms of bite victims include weakness, depression,
• malaise, light-headedness, or “a certain aloofness from any social activity,
• often  perceived as light madness 

is a vigorous dance used to cure tarntism

male of gemale sipder bite sufferer

bag pipe

tambourine with jungles attached. 

contemporary tarantella music, sometimes traditional, sometimes combined with popular music, refers to bite of spider.

lodge type fraternal order mutual aid society. helped preserve aftrican tradions organized under sponsorship under catholic saint.

afro cuban cabildo 

a contemporary Cuban religion based upon traditional West African beliefs, primarily those of the Yoruba people. the belief in ache, the life force of energy thatanimates the universe.Also believes in destiny.  Offers sacrifices ebo.  pragmatic

afro cuban language. language of santeria

deified spiritual being.  True foci of the religion. Handles the day to day workings such as health happiness, relationships, and finance.  West African origin

king of the  pre-Yoruba, oricha of thunder, male virility, lightening, and fire, is one of the most powerful and masculine of all New World oricha.

leader of musical ensemble judged by relgious knowledge

the ensemble  consisting of 3 hollowed gourds with a beaded  net. The ensemble and the instrument being played.

double headed drums

cuban carnival rhythm and dance

cuban carnival procession group

Christian season between Christmas and Lent

day of the kings, significant since it featured a kind of Africa, thus providing a place for Africans in Christian history.

a pair of two small membranophones joined together and struck with fingertips.

a guitar type instrumnet featuring three double-strings

large box-like Cuban verson of the mbira. Metal strips that are plucked.

two small mebranophones joined together and struck with fingertips

so called “conga drum”; are played with bare hands and perform a number of hierarchically organized parts.

literally chinese cornet a shawm called suona in China

roots of salsa music; Buena Vista Social Club album: 1997 son revival

two small mebranophones joined together and struck with fingertips

a section featuring call and response chorus (with improved calls) syncopated rhythm, harmonic vamps, and interlay between soloist and chorus. 

lead singer

rhymes, in this case inserting the names of the musicians into the scene described in the song. 

indigenous languages in andean region

early 20th century artistic and literary movement that celebrated Andean identity as expressed by urban intellectuals (often romanticized)

music which fuses the indigenous with Europeann in a whole nost of ways

most famous "andean" composition

Bolivian ensemble that popularized the combination of many Andean music traditions (quena, siku, charango) into a single hybrid ensemble; also used guitar.

slow romantic ballad of pre-contact origins

dance/music genre of pre contact orgins

escape ending section of huayno, sometimes faster tempo

pagpipes

Aymara term for panpipe ensemble

small guitar-like chordophone

scissors dance. . Dancer preform while clicking together losose scissor blades. Preformed with harp and violin. Display of physical and spiritual power

New Song” fold song style. Evolved into political song especially in Chile. Associated with social justice popular among educated youth, workers, and poor

folksong style; folklore work a precursor

written nueva cancion

performed nueva cancion

popular Andean-style Nueva Cancion

people were arrested and then nothing were found. 

national dance of Chile

“sola cueca,” dance created for political protest

the gaels/gaelic culture 

informal, w/o repertoir, neither concert nor backgroud music, not amplified, reel, heterophony

term for news, gossip, enjoyable conversation, happend in breaks of session 

dance tune, 2 fiddle, 1 flute

tripple-meter dance tunes

informal gathering for music performance w/o repertoir

large Irish music ensemble formed to play in parish sponsored dance (more players for larger/louder venue)

1935 driven by priest, danned house and crossroads dances, only dances in paraish halls

great significance, kings employed hereditary bards who accompanied themselves on harp, british repress irish culure and harp

(poets who composed and recited verses celebrating chieftains and heroes genealogies, legends, laws) who usually accompanied themselves on a harp. 

last of the great bards; became blind as an adult; Harp a profession of some blind; Traveled entire Ireland

tune composed for a patron; Harp recording composed by Carolan :” Planxty Johnson”

Irish Union bagpipes, elbow-pumped

small aerophone related to the accordion hexagon shape…think piratesaccordion

recorder

frame drum struck w/a wooden stick and / or fingers

• old style” solo dance with virtuosic percussive footwork similar to step dancing.  
• arms move freely
• no costume

artist/ reseracher Preforms Creggan Graveyard

vision poem often spoke of meeting magical beings, such as fairies. 

an old traditional form of Irish singing. Always performed solo and unaccompanied

virtuosic individual dance with emphasis on percussive footwork; classic style danced with motionless upper body

group social dance in square formation; brought to Ireland in 19th century; made Irish by music and choreography.

Nuala Kennedy grew up in Dundalk, Ireland where she was a member of the ceilidh band Ceoltoiri Oga Oghrialla. In 1995 she moved to Scotland and she now lives near Kincraig in the Highlands. She is best known for her work with trio Fine Friday, with whom she has toured extensively and recorded two critically acclaimed CDs, “Gone Dancing” (2002) and “Mowing the Machair” (2004)

provides an example of modern rendit on of traditional reels.  Modern band

AABB – ornaments -reel-heterophonic

uilleann pipes - AABB-texture changes with done on second time

reel - AABB - lunasa-bowed acoustic bass and guitar-second tune played by fiddle flute and uilleann pipes only

sean-nos - aisling or vision poem- monophonic

Havana style conga- comparsa group-trumpet lead- bombo

call and response - son- improvising-laud-monotuna-sonero-bongo-clave timeline-maracas

chinese cornet corneta china- comparas-congo drum-tumbaddoras

call and response- bata drum- iya-akpon

romantic ballad-Charango-whoever has seen the volcano –high pitch

– sizki – aymara- wankara

victor jara-ini-illmani-about president Salvador Allende who was killed after a coup

mestizo- combines two song forms the yaravi and huayno-kill bill

used to cure spider bites-tamburelli – zampongna a paru(bag pipe)

- about god taking from his pocket –mouth harp marranzanu