Music Vocabulary: Chapter 2

A style of “art” music that stands apart from traditional or popular music.

A logical succession of musical tones.

Melody is a logical succession of musical tones.

Chamber Music is music written during the Classical period for small ensembles.

A Balinese music ensemble is known as GAMELAN

The performance practices, means, traditions, uses, and beliefs about music of a group of people, either from a specific

Music intended for a wide audience, often featuring prominent melodies.

Culture: customs, beliefs, language, arts & institutions of a group of ppl that R learned & transmitted within a society

“Folk Music” informal music that develops within and is strongly associated with a cultural group or region.

The way the beats or pulses are organized and subdivided.

Electrophones: instruments that generate sound from electricity.

Membranophones: instruments that produce sound by a vibrating column of air.

There are six (6) categories of instruments.

Idiophones: simple, solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken.

The highness or lowness of sound determined by its frequency of vibration.

Scholars who study the physical and cultural characteristics and social customs of a group of people.

Scholars who study the music of different cultural groups.

 A form of expression within a musical genre.

Chordophones are instruments that create sound by striking, rubbing, or plucking a taut string (or chord).

The distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice, which is clearly identifiable by the ear.