A music-culture's basic ideas concerning the nature of human society, art, and the universe describe the relationship between music and this system.
What is "the belief system"?
100
In the twentieth century, this has played an especially important role in various music-cultures, making some songs "hits", and marketing music as a commodity.
What is the music industry?
100
This is a stock of music that is ready to be performed.
What is a "repertory"?
100
This term refers to the material objects that people in a culture produce–objects that can be seen, held, felt, and used.
What is "material culture"?
100
An example of a piece of music that is so old and accepted as "ours" that no one questions (or sometimes even knows) where it comes from is _________. (We performed this on the first day of class.)
What is "the Hokey Pokey".
200
This term refers to a music-culture's preferences in sound quality and performance practice, and how they discriminate based on ideas of beauty, pleasure, enjoyment, form, and affect.
What is "aesthetic"?
200
This symphony had no women in its orchestra until 1997.
What is the Vienna Symphony?
200
This term includes all of the pitch elements, time elements, timbre elements, and sound intensity of music, and together with the 'aesthetics' of a music-culture, creates a recognizable sound that a group understands as its own.
What is "style"?
200
We rely on these materials to inform us about how music sounded prior to the invention of the phonograph in the 1870's.
What are musical instruments?
200
We term music from a previous generation or era, perceived to be old-fashioned or traditional as _______.
What is "classical".
300
This term refers to the 'who', 'what', 'where', 'when', 'how', and 'why' of a musical performance.
What is "context"?
300
Blues musicians of the early twentieth century being assigned a low social status, is an example of the relationship between music and this.
What is "social organization"?
300
These are the named, standard units of repertory, such as "song" and its various subdivisions (lullaby, Christmas carol, wedding song) or the many types of instrumental music and dances (jig, reel, waltz, etc.).
What are "genres"?
300
Besides remains of musical instruments themselves, we can get information about musical instruments of the past from this.
What is "art"?
300
________ has accelerated the rate at which music travels and is shared all over the world.
What is technology.
400
The part of music that we study to ask the following questions:
What happens to music over time and space?
Does it stay the same or change, and why?
What did the music of the past sound like?
Should music be preserved?
What is the "History of Music"?
400
When people in a music-culture migrate out of their region, they often use music as a marker of this.
What is "ethnic identity"?
400
When a repertory is transmitted chiefly by example and imitation rather than notation, we say the music exists in __________ rather than written.
What is "oral tradition".
400
The development of most of the instruments in the Euro-American symphony orchestra was influenced by the pre-16th-century exchange between a multicultural and multireligious population in Andalusia, the region of southern Europe that we now know as these two countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
400
Music-cultures are not static, they are _________.
What is "dynamic".
500
A method of exploring music of other cultures that places "affective experience" in the center, and then considers the elements of performance, community, memory, and history.
What is the music-culture "performance model".
500
As the boundaries between "professional" and "amateur" musicians are becoming more blurred; as more people are participating in music by making it; and as a great deal of money remains at stake in the distribution of music, debates over this abound.
What is "ownership"?
500
A major component of the musical experience, involving a whole range of physical activity that accompanies music.
What is "movement"?
500
This is the most revolutionary instrument today.
What is the computer?
500
The term given to encouraging people who make music and the conditions (ideas and cultural practices, whether traditional or modern) under which human beings remain free to create all music, including new music.