Elements of Music
a regularly recurring beat
What is a pulse?
Shelemay's idea that sound derives its significance from its setting
What is a soundscape?
In the 18th century, these comedic music dramas made the maids and servants the main characters
What is opera buffa?
Clifton Chenier and Queen Ida are musicians in this genre from Southwestern Louisiana
What is zydeco?
A melody that represents a character or idea that comes back over the course of a large musical work
What is a leitmotif?
the distance between two pitches
What is an interval?
a theory of signs
What is semiotics?
Stylistic period where composers were invested in the sublime, exploring mystery, and deep emotions evoked in nature
What is Romanticism?
The technical term for Tuvan throat singing
What is khoomi?
The spread of a people throughout the world
What is a diaspora?
term that describes a tone's quality
What is timbre?
Yi Fu Tuan's defines this as "centers of felt meaning"
What is place?
Composer whose symphony became a sign for Victory during WWII
Who is Beethoven?
She grew up a coal miner's daughter
Who is Loretta Lynn?
a group of people within a larger society who have (or think they have) common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and elements in common, such as kinship, religious affiliation, language, or some combination of these
What is an ethnic group?
a song form comprised entirely of verses
What is strophic form?
Theorist who defined "art worlds" to describe the networks that make art objects--or works--possible
Who is Howard Becker?
Composer who has been inspired by Chinese language and culture in his works composed for Western classical ensembles
Who is Lei Liang?
Collection of songs that originated in England and Scotland but were found preserved in the Appalachian mountains
performance field where the boundaries between artist and audience disappear
What is participatory performance?
a texture with multiple voices that move with rhythmic independence
What is polyphony?
Theorist who developed the idea of an imagined community to describe modern nation-states
Who is Benedict Anderson?
Composer who distinguished between listening and hearing in her TED talk
Who is Pauline Oliveros?
Borderlands genre that stems from Mexican folkloric music and German polkas
What is conjunto?
sign created through resemblance--something that looks like/sounds like something else
What is an icon?