World Music - 3600 Test 2
Ukulele
"leaping flea" small plucked 4-stringed guitar
Spirituals
(slaves) religious songs that came from slave tradition influenced by call and response
Jazz
20th century style of popular music developed mainly by African Americans in New Orleans.
Call-and-Response Style
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Gamelon
A large Indonesian ensemble Mainly Metallophones
Contrafacta
A song in which new text is set to a borrowed, pre-existing melody.
Dan Bau
A vietnamese zither with a pitch-bending bar
Evan Ziporyn
American saxophonist and composer, plays in Balinese Gamelans
Qunan
Arab zither plucked
Gold Mountain
Chinese term for north america, esp. CA because of gold rush
Second Liners
Crowd behind the band and mourners in a Jazz funeral
Syncopation
Emphasizing the off-beat in a piece, common in Jazz and Rock music
Ho
Example: The Nation Road
hula dance
Hawaiian dance, traditional dancing to steel guitar and ukulele
Steel Guitar
Hawaiian guitar (sits on lap and you use a slide)
Forced migration
Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
Layali
Improvised intro
Tetracord
Maqams divided into two sections of four pitches
Ud
Middle Eastern lute
Tao Moe family
Mormon Missionary family that performed Hawaiian music around the world for half a century.
Voluntary migration
Movement in which people relocate in response to perceived opportunity; not forced.
Silk Road Ensemble
Not a fixed group of musicians (part of the silk road project)
Silk Road Project
Produced by Chinese cellist Yo Yo Ma to bring music of East to the West
Felix Mendelssohn
Promoted the Tao Moe family
William Francis Allen
Publisher, released first song of spiritual. slave songs
Jubilee Singers of Fisk University
Slaves, African-American students, sang internationally, often sang spirituals
Pipa
Stringed Chinese lute shaped instrument; 4 strings; played fast for entertainment purposes
Rag-time
Syncopated or ragged rhythm popular sheet music for piano (started in New Orleans)
Pizmon
Syrian jewish praised song based on ma'am
New Orleans Jazz Band
The Band executed the jazz funeral: A special kind of funeral marking the passing of a musician that includes a procession with a jazz band.
Ca Hue
Vietnamese chamber music performed for connosseurs, heard in A Thousand Miles From Home
Pham Duy
Wrote The National Road: Journey Through Vietnam
Wu Man
a Chinese pipa & ruan player & composer
Hanan Harouni
a Lebanese singer who settled in New York
Muwashshah
a classical arab vocal form
Song Cycle
a collection of several songs united by a common textual theme or literary idea
Dirge
a funeral hymn or mournful speech
impressario
a manager of performer or a director of concert series
Vocables
a polite word for nonsense syllables
Sebet
a sabbath afternoon songfest of unaccompanied pizmonim. celebrates special occasions
Gong Kebyar
a type of Balinese gamelan, known particularly for its shimmering sound and interlocking parts
Yo-yo Ma
accomplished and versatile american cellist who often crosses between soundscape, Silk Road Project
Paul Robeson
african american opera singer. track 7, dressed up songs
Mawwal
alternates between strict and free rhythm
Scott Joplin
an african american composer and pianist. king of ragtime
Louis Armstrong
an african american jazz trumpeter and singer from new orleans. had two funerals. Satchmo.
nay
an end blown flute. middle east influence
Erhu
chinese colophon double string bow
Pipa
chinese lute
Sheng
chinese mouth organ
Zheng
chinese zither
Maqam Huzam
contemporary arab musical mode
Hero Corrido
corrido having to do with mexican figures
Revolutionary Corrido
corridos based on social, political, and economic events
narco corrido
drug lords
santur
hammered dulcimer, similar to a zither
Corrido
historic ballad
YangQin
is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, (string instrument)
Saz
long-necked ud
Ru
lullaby
Melisma
more than 1 note sung on a single syllable
Blue-note
note played flat to make it stand out
Haflah
party held by syrian jews to celebrate special occasions such as anniversary. any day except sabbath
Diaspora
people living outside their historic homeland who maintain memories of, and attachments to , their place of origin
Alan Lomax
recorded Leadbelly, studied folk song styles around the world
Heddie Ledbetter "Leadbelly"
sang spirituals, went to jail then recorded by allan lomax
Maqam
science behind arab music the system governing pitch and melody in arab music.
Gregorio Cortez
shot the sheriff for shooting his brother. track 14 strophic form, same melody different words
Jinshan
some chinese immigrants called the united states, which means gold mountain
Muyu or Muk'yu
song about every day life, sang by everyday life
Sheung Chi Ng ( Uncle Ng)
the song ng book lai jinshan (uncle ng comes to the gold mountain) traces and recounts details of the chinese immigration process through music
Da vu
vietnamese night dance
