Chapter 7 Music of the Americas

Zydeco music

(Black) soul (blues) resulted from combining the Cajun music style with elements of the Blues style Instrument accordion(keyboard), washboard(rub board) saxophones

Cajun music

(white) french refugees settled in Louisiana primarily a style tradition associated with the working class.(white culture. Instrument Fiddle, accordion, guitars.

Powwow

20th century intertribal celebration of native american music and dance; involves dance competitions

pentatonic scale

5 tones scale

salsa

A popular music of Latin American origin that has characteristics of rhythm and blues jazz and rock

Bossa nova

A popular music of a Brazilian origin that is rhythmically related to samba but with complex harmonies and improvised, pass like passage

I'm leaving you here in San Antonio

Ay te dejo en San Antonio(title), American Southwest Tex-Mex (culture source), Tex-Mex(Style), Flaco Jimenez(name of the accordion player) main music in the accordion in the beginning

rhythm selcetion

Electric guitar, electric bass, drums. the part of jazz group supplying the rhythm generally regarded as consisting of bass and drums and sometimes piano or guitar

Register

High, middle, or low; range of pitches lowest to the highest

gaugaku

Japanese court music (elegant music)

ring of fire

Mingo Saldivar (performer) tejano(style) accordion (instrument)

Rabbit dance

Music of Northern Plains Indians(culture source) women and men allowed to dance together, it is a time of social and merriment(type or purpose of the dance) listen for vocables and drums

mestizo

Native of Mexico and south America having mixed Indian and Spanish blood

yeibichei song

Navajo performers(performers) navajo (culture source) ceremonial (genre)

hindustani

Northern Indian

origins

R. carlos nakai (performer) a navajo (culture source) flute (aerophone featured)

get up, stand up

Reggae blended of African, Cuban, Spanish, Jamaican, and American influence(culture source), Reggae(style), Peter Tosh(main performer) words by Peter Tosh and music by Bob Marley(composers)

transitional powwow

Renzel Last Horse and Kiyaksa (Lakota Sioux)(performers) Native American (cultural source) drums and vocables(instrument)

butterfly dance

San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico (culture source) warfare; preparing, escaping; qualities of a butterfly desired by a warrior.. strong voice, bells, drums,

ossun two-step

Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys(performers), Cajun (style) upbeat button accordion(instrument)

Vocables

Words in native american songs no meaning and intended only as vocal sound

magonde

Zimbabwe (culture source) mbar (instrument) vocables

Samba

a Briazilian dance of African origin

ostinato

a continually repealed musical phrase or rhythm

Idiophone

a percussion instrument that is struck shaken, plucked, or rubbed Example: rattles, rasps, claves, castanets, guiros, maracas, marimbas, xylophones, and drums all kinds

Membranophone

a percussion instrument whose sound is produced by vibrations Example: rattles, rasps, claves, castanets, guiros, maracas, marimbas, xylophones, and drums all kinds

mariachi

a popular Mexican folk music

done

a single pitch or an open fifth, sometimes three tones producing the western equivalent

chordophone

a stringed instrument (plucked or bowed) example: violins, jaranas(little guitars) and guitrrons(base guitars), lutes, and harps

Teiano (tex-Mex)

a style of music originating in southern Texas

Melody

a succession of musical tones, usually of varying pitch and rhythm that identifiable shape and meaning

Reggae

a synthesis rock, rhythm and blues. Reject black nationalism, social reform

aerophone

a wind instrument example : reed flutes, ocarinas, panpipes, queans(vertical or end-blown flutes), and clay or conch-shell trumpets

shamisen

an Japanese instrument like a banjo played by hand or by pit

shakuachi

an Japanese instrument like a flute different sounds come out when you move your head

electrophone

an electronic instrument

ornaments (embellishments)

an embellishment of a melody

tala

an intricale rhythmic or metric pattern emphasized by the drums(tabla or mridangam)

the trees of the ravine

arboles de la barranca(title), Los Angeles country song(cultural source), A popular Mexican folk music(mariachi), hear trumpets and soft vocables

koto

being played by plucked and rub the person wears three pits

strong connections

between drumming-dancing-life (especially the intimate connection to the natural world)

shomyo

buddhist chanting (performed by male chorus in responsorial style)

noh

classical Japanese music drama

der bosfer

der bossier (title ) ashkenazi(culture source),

drum circle

drum is circular= reflects the idea that life is a circle

Native American Instruments

drums (single beater) bells ( often on the ankles) flutes

buddhism/ zen

emphasize personal enlightenment through self-understanding and self - reliance through medication -traditional Japanese art -paradoxical and nonlogical statements

rasa

essential emotional/mental states, the primary feelings & thoughts & moods & images by making music

agekor

ewe tribe west africa Ghana (cultural source) voice, rattles, marimba, drums (instruments used)

kabuki

grew out of the noh traditions; more melodramatic

Mexican instrument

harp, violins, various sizes of guitars, and sometimes trumpets

bhimpalasi

hindustani(culture source) ravishankar (sitar performer) tabla (drum used )

Important instrument of other american countries

important instruments: reed flutes, ocarinas(a small egg-shaped wind intrusment with a mouth piece and holes for fingers), panpipes (wind instrument consisting of a series of short vertical pipes), conch shell trumpets, rattles, rasps, claves, congas, bongos, violins, jaranal( small guitar), guitarron(large acoustic base register guitar)

synocopation

involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off beat

raga

is one of the melodic modes used in traditional South Asian music genres such as Indian classical music and qawwali

ranchera

is urban, more modern day country

Clifton Chenier

king of zydeco music

beat (pulse)

like a heartbeat

sephardic

mediterranean region, much less familiar to non-sephardim and westerners in particular.. rebec, lauto (lute), recorder (flute), santur(hammered dulcimer)

shintoism

more native to Japanese culture more of a "nature religion"

corrido

more traditional country

southern India

music instrumental performance reduces vocal compositions to great extent

northern India

music is more completely improvised

vedas; vedic chant

music is the tradition (scriptures of hinduism)

important indian instruments

north - sitar, voice, tabla, tambura, south- flute , violin, voice, veena, dangam, mbura

bell bird

pajaro campana(title), Latin American(culture source), Folk Music (genre), Harp and guitar, drums (instruments)

harmony

pitches heard simultaneously in ways that produce chords and chord progressions

important instrument of Africa

rattles, mbira, drums, bells, marimba

Cuba

rumba, salsa

Brazil

samba, bossa nova, lambada

oral tradition

saying a message or a story or like a folk tale

yo le le

senegal (culture source) sengalese pop (style) Youssou N'dour (lead singer)

conjunet

share that moves mostly stepwise; Important instrument violins, vihuelas(Spanish stringed musical instrument like a guitar), goitarrons( the big guitar in Spanish bands), accordion , washboard(rub board)

nhemamusasa

shona Zimbabwe (culture source) mbira, rattles (instruments used)

cantillation

singing text from the hebrew bible

Jamaica

ska, rocksteady, reggae

sarasiruha

south india karnatak (cultural source) veena (instrument used)

karnatak

southern Indian

feet striking ground

speaking to mother earth

improvisation

the action of improvising

timbre

the characteristic quality of sound of a voice or instrument

ma

the concept that is subservient to thought

texture

the density of sound

dynamics

the level of loudness

Rhythm

the organization of time in music, creating patterns of long and short

Functional music

the role music plays in the event and what it means

ashkenazi

the song is yiddish instruments : accordion,violin, hammered dulcimer(cimbalom), bass, guitar, clarinet, saxophone

lullaby

traditional Zuni (culture source) lanaiditsa (performer) lullaby (gene)

kyo no warabeuta

traditional japansese (culture source) koto and shakuhachi (instruments)

tsurunosugomori

traditional japansese (culture source) shakuhachi and shamisen (instrument used)

call and response

when someone calls and the group responses with the answer

tu le ton son ton

zydeco(culture source), Zydeco(style), Clifton Chenier(accordion player)