MUSC 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Plucked String Instrument, Claude Debussy, Sub-Saharan Africa
11 Sep 2013
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It reflects culture: religion, dance, & drama, communicates messages & relates traditions, oral tradition, frequently transmitted by oral tradition. Improvisation freq. basic to music: improve. Usually based on tradition melodic phrases & rhythmic patterns: voices singing usually main way of making music, vocal approach, timbre & tech. vary thru world. Nasal sound, strained tone, throat singing, & many others. Instruments: 4 types based on sound prod, membranophones stretched skin (primarily drums, chordophones stretched string (harp-type, aerophones performer"s breath (flutes, trumpets, etc) Idiophones instr. body is sound generator (bells, gongs, scrapers, rattles, etc. : style & app. Types of instr. to dominate: strings allow flex. Of pitch: idiophones/membranophones: rhythmic emphasis, aerophones aid in outdoor performance, geography & material avail. Melody, rhythm & texture: most nonwestern musics are monophonic, sometimes accompanied by drone, some cult. All perform same melody with diff. ornamentation: scales in nonwestern music are freq. quite diff. than western musical scales, intervals between tones can be larger or smaller.
