The way that compositions, performance practices, and knowledge are transmitted from musician to musician.
What is transmission?
100
The difference between individual and collective pursuit of enlightenment.
What is the difference between Mahayana and Theraveda Buddhism?
100
The belief that individuals should conform to the group. Musician is most skilled when it conforms and contributes to the ensemble.
What is collectivism?
100
A musical texture in which multiple rhythm patterns are performed simultaneously.
What is polyrhythm?
100
The process by which a musical genre changes as meaning is attached (similar to layered meaning). For example, Mariachi became a symbol for Mexico as it was associated through film.
What is resignification?
200
What is this an example of? In Southeast Asia, governments moved folk music into schools for study and students were able to obtain degrees in the study of folk music.
What is formalization?
200
A body of song repertoire that structures Burmese court music.
What is the Maha Gita?
200
The Chinese aesthetic that beauty is achieved when players add slight variations to melody (heterophonic texture).
What is Fangman jiahua (Making slow and adding flowers)?
200
The aesthetic belief that is beauty is achieved by the juxtaposition of contrasting patterns.
What is faceting?
200
One of the principle instruments that defines the genre of Son Jarocho.
What is the tarima or quijada de burro?
300
The three ways that music can be political.
What is solidify power, advance issues, and resist oppression?
300
A Vietnamese monochord that is unique for the way a performer can manipulate pitch.
What is a Dan Bau?
300
This philosophical system leads musical performers to believe strongly in the value of amateur music making.
What is confucianism?
300
The instrumental introduction of Egyptian long form song.
What is muqaddima?
300
A type of texture in which players create a melody by dividing a melody among many different instruments.
What is interlocking texture?
400
A belief that there are no universal truths, every truth is inseparable from its (cultural) context.
What is relativism?
400
A set of 21 drums in a circle that are tuned to unique pitches to create a fundamental melody in Burmese court music.
What is the patt waing?
400
Different melodies and speeds of melody that occur in layers (found in Bali).
What is stratified polyphony?
400
An aesthetic belief that beauty is achieved when a performer transports the audience to a higher plane of ecstasy (contact with divine) through tension and release.
What is tarab?
400
Essential characteristics of Son Huasteco.
What is falsetto singing and virtuoso violin playing?
500
The definition of ethnomusicology
What is the study of music in culture and as culture.
500
Placement of melody (gong circle), tempo speed, lilt/straight rhythms, melody construction (relationship to language)
What are the differences between Thai and Khmer music?
500
The Balinese concept of interlocking parts.
What is kotekan?
500
A type of scale in arabic music. Each scale has an associated meaning and emotional quality.
What is a maqam?
500
A type of Brazlian music used to practice martial arts among slaves in a way that was hidden from slave owners (also name the associated major instrument).