MUS 185 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Idiophone, Pias Cooperative, Unit
Document Summary
Introductory unit: music universals, vocal, instruments, ritual/ sacred events, delineates musical pieces or selections, organized tones and pitches, a way to experience a transcendent mood, to reinforce social, hornbostel-sachs classifications, this classification can work on any instrument. Interval - the distance or space between two pitch frequencies example, the a below middle c on a piano vibrates at 440hz. the next a above that vibrates at. Africa unit: pygmy culture and their approach to music-making, pygmy culture live in jungle, hunter gather, nomadic, cooperative, music, few/ simple instruments, singing repetitive, ostinato, call and response, hocket, yodeling, mande culture: the jeli. Jeli: considered artisan shaper of sound ( words and music, male or female, determined by bloodline intermarriage between jeli families speech, singing, playing instruments, specialize in. Japan unit: basic characteristics of japanese music (including, but not limited to, pitch bending, free rhythm, ma).
