MUSC 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Japanese Literature, Guzheng, The Tale Of The Heike
9 Mar 2015
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Louisiana- where cajun and zydeco music took place. Ethnomusicology: a study of music as it pertains to groups of people, and relationships to culture. Multi-disciplinary field: borrows ideas from different field of study (musicology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, folklore, physics, medicine) Literati: a specific sound distinguished by how high/low it is, quality, more than one pitch you have an interval, creates scale, sequence of notes from low to high ordered by frequency pitch. Cajun: used accordions: music of cajuns, originally from acadia, settled in new orleans where they sustained french traditions and language but also mixed with spanish, native americans, euro. Settler culture: society of immigrant groups, prewritten music, common in the west and used in raga. Raga: music made up on the spot, raga, freestyle with instruments, western ex: chords outlining structure for improvisation, other: some sort of structure, melodic, chords or rhythmic, not having a tonal center. All over the place characterized by arnold schoenberg"s music.
