MUSIC 009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Duple Coachbuilders, Ethnocentrism, Major Scale
Document Summary
_ ethnocentrism: imposition of one set of culturally grounded perspectives, biases, and assumption on people and practices of other cultures. _ hip approach: human intention and perception approach. _ ethnomusicology: study of music of another culture and/or one"s own culture. _ society vs culture: distinct from culture as an anthropological concept, and from society. _ nation vs nation state: nation state has national homeland while nation has no national homeland. _ diaspora: international network of communities linked together by identification with a common ancestral homeland and culture. _ musical syncretism: the merging of formerly distinct styles and idioms into new forms of musical expression. _ rhythm: the organization of sounds and silences in time. _ simple/ duple meter: rooted to the ground, grouped in 2. _ compound/ triple meter: lighter, more buoyant, grouped in 3. _ syncopation: describes accented and notes that fall between beats. _ subdivision: when a beat is divided into smaller rhythmic units.
