MUS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Falsetto, Joseph Opala, Indigenous Music Of North America
MUS 206
Components of a Music-Culture:
1. Ideas about Music - what people think about music of another culture
2. Activities involving music
3. Repertoires of Music
4. Material Culture of Music -- instruments, costumes
The Language You Cry In -- A case study in Music Ethnography
Key Words:
● Gullah people
● Sierra Leone
● Joseph Opala
● Cynthia Schmidt
● Baindu Jabati
Native American
● Diversity -- Geography, Demography, and Religion
● Powwow
○ Coming together
○ Celebration of heritage, culture, and traditions
○ Way to cultivate intercultural Native Americans
● Native American Music
○ Music is part of everyday life
○ Usually vocal/monophonic
○ Use of percussion instruments and rattles
○ Drum symbolizes a heartbeat
○ Usually steady (single/duple meter)
○ Short melodies
Sioux Grass Dance:
● Timbre -- drums and voices
● Rhythm and Meter -- single
● Text -- vocables
● Melody -- descending
Falsetto -- high pitch in a male voice
Portamento -- sliding
Vocables -- meaningless syllables
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