MUS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Falsetto
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Describe musical characteristics: musical medium & timbre: drum. Portamento slides from high pitch to low: rhythm & meter: Long short long short : performance: grass dance - purpose, text: no recognizable text instead vocables. Range: wide b/c high low hard to sing. Ornaments: could be the slide: general form: *** repetition, contrast & variation. Many singing, not just one done in groups. Identify similarities and differences between the zuni lullaby and the sioux grass dance: The largest american-indian tribe in the u. s. (~310,000) (2010) 27,000 sq. mile reservation (arizona, new mexico, & utah) Farming, raising stock, weaving, silversmithing, natural resources. Many traditions preserved, but new ideas and change are welcome. Have a (cid:858)nation(cid:859) where they choose their leaders; not accountable to the states, only to the federal government. Houses vary from large ranch houses to trailer homes to one-room house. Sung in vocables but identified with navajo call of the gods (yeibichai: hi ye, hi ye, ho ho ho ho!
