The discipline that studies human musical thought and behaviour from a scientific perspective.
What is music psychology?
100
Historical musicology focuses on the traditions of Western European music; ___ focuses on music outside of that tradition.
What is ethnomusicology?
100
A statement which defines the argument and overall purpose of your paper.
What is a thesis statement?
100
The study of music and the moving image.
What are music and media studies?
100
A journal which exists as a hard copy, although they can also sometimes be found online.
What is a print journal?
200
A career choice that involves the management of arts organizations (such as theatres, orchestras, operas, or art centers).
What is arts administration?
200
One of the most crucial methods of gathering data for ethnomusicologists is ____, using methods such as observation, interviews, or participation.
What is field work?
200
A sentence which introduces the broader subject of your paper (NOT the specific argument).
What is a topic statement?
200
The study of music which is generally considered to "be of lower value and complexity than art music, and to be readily accessible to large numbers".
What is popular music studies (from OCM).
200
A journal article that has been evaluated by external academics or specialists prior to publication.
What is peer-reviewed? (Refereed)
300
The study of how the brain processes music, including perception and comprehension.
What is music cognition?
300
A source that is an original document from a particular time or event, such as a diary, interview, or recording.
What is a primary source?
300
Parrallelism, collaboration, subordination, and expansion are four important components of this.
What is an outline?
300
A film from the 1920s or earlier which does not have a synchronized soundtrack.
What is a silent film?
300
A comprehensive bibliography of writings on music featuring citations and abstracts; particularly useful for finding academic resources for historical musicology.
What is RILM?
400
When performers choose to play in historically appropriate style or on instruments from the epoch when the music was originally written.
What is period performance?
400
The act of imposing Western ideas, standards, and values on non-Western music; one of the potential pitfalls of ethnomusicological research.
What is colonialism?
400
What is missing from this journal citation: Jenkins and Wallace, “Generalized Action Potential of Protests Movements: The New Class, Social Trends, and Political Exclusion Explanations,” Sociological Forum 2: 169.
What is a date?
400
This search engine provides citations of sources such as journals, reviews, and obituaries; unlike other engines, it is particularly useful for the scholar of popular music.
What is Music Index?
400
An important secondary source for thorough background information on musical topics; several of your course readings were available through this site.
What is Oxford Music Online? (Grove Music Online) (Oxford Companion to Music)
500
You might pursue this degree, which combines performance studies with research elements, if you are interested in graduate level performance studies.
What is a DMA?
500
A term for the imitation of culture aspects of Middle Eastern or East Asian cultures in a patronizing and inauthentic way (in Western European music, for example).
What is Orientalism?
500
When you need to cut out a portion of a quotation in your paper, you should replace the words or phrases you are removing with this punctuation mark.
What is an ellipsis? (...)
500
A film whose main purpose can be easily summarized (ie; What if there were aliens and we tried to kill them with robots).
What is high concept?
500
A compilation of all notable editions of a classical composers' musical works.