Thinking About Music
Mexican narrative song often used for protest and storytelling, also popular in Texas and California music.
Corrido
Name three of the six Instrument categories in the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification System
Idiophones – sound created by the instrument body itself vibrating
Membranophones – sound created by a stretched membrane vibrating
Chordophones – sound created by a vibrating string
Aerophones – sound created by a vibrating column of air
Electrophones – sound created by electrical or electronic means
Corpophones – sound created by the human body
Term meaning the speed of the music
Tempo
The name for a scale with five pitches.
Pentatonic Scale
What category instrument is this in the Hornbostel-Sach's system?
Membranophone
Sung words or syllables that don’t have exact meanings in language
Vocables
Name 2 of the Western Classical Instrument Familes
Voice
Winds (Brass, Woodwinds)
Strings
Percussion
Equal length durations of time like we might hear in the ticking of a clock or our own heartbeat
Pulse
A group of pitches separated by intervals
Scale
Is this ensemble have a homogenous or heterogenous instrumentation?
Homogenous
Name the three ways of passing on music, or transmission
■Tactile
■Oral/Aural
■Visual
Name 2 chordophones
Sitar, Violin, Guitar, etc.
A meter with PULSES organized into groups of TWO is referred to as....
Duple Meter
A set of discreet pitches played one after another that form a coherent unit. Like a musical sentence.
Melody
Does this song have a Duple or Triple meter?
Duple
Type of musical notation that tells you how exactly the music should sound
Descriptive Notation
Type of ensemble that has all instruments with sounds that blend
Homogenous Ensemble
Compound Meter
Two or more melodic lines combined into a multivoiced texture.
Polyphony
Does this song use in a major or minor scale?
Major scale
Music just for music’s sake, or that doesn’t represent something else
Absolute Music
Name 2 of the Ba Yin Instrument Categories
•Metal
•Stone
•Skin
•Gourd
•Bamboo
•Wood
•Silk
•Earth (pottery)
A that is divided with uneven subdivisions as instead of perfectly "quantized" rhythms can be described as having a ______ feel.
Swing
Name of scale that uses ALL twelve of the Western Notes.
Chromatic Scale
How many beats are in the meter of this ODD METER SONG?
Seven