Across
- 3. ______ music, a term describing contemporary global musics unique to a specific country, region, or ethnic group. The term previously was used in the music industry as a catch-all term for non-Western musics, but now includes musics from all over the world
- 6. The musical texture resulting of the simultaneous combination of two or more melodic lines
- 7. Taking or using something without authority or right; in music, this typically involves the use of musical elements from an ethnic or cultural group outside one’s own
- 10. ______ system: All the pitches used in a particular tradition or culture. These systems are culturally and historically based, meaning they change over time as well as from culture to culture. Some systems have less than 12 pitches in an octave; some have more
- 14. Western tuning system, in which the octave is divided into 12 equal segments/pitches. Each of these pitches corresponds to one key on the piano
- 16. _____ music, a term describing musics that emerged in European courts, disseminated through written notation, considered “high art” and usually associated with the upper class
- 20. The way in which the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements of music are woven together
- 21. A social construct distinguishing one group of humans from another on the basis of shared cultural heritage, ancestry, language, history, and or culture; it has largely replaced the now outdated concept of race
- 23. The musical texture consisting of a single melodic line
- 24. A succession of pitches that has an organized and recognizable shape
- 25. The rate of speed of the beat
- 27. Intervals smaller than a half step; pitches “in between” what a piano can play
- 28. A technique used for communication between intercultural groups. Its principles include: seeking to listen and to understand, speaking from our own lived experiences, being thankful and open to learn when others share their lived experiences, allowing space for everyone to participate, challenging the idea and not the person. It differs from debate, which aims to convince the other side or to “win” the argument
- 29. The arrangement of time durations in music
- 31. Merging two musical styles/forms/elements to create a new one
- 32. The way that music is disseminated from person to person.
Down
- 1. _____ music, a term describing musics that are traditional, primarily disseminated through oral transmission, and usually associated with a specific rural setting or ethnic group
- 2. The musical texture consisting of a melody combined with chords
- 4. How “busy” the music is in terms of rhythm. High activity results in a thick ________; low activity results in a thin one
- 5. Basic unit of musical time; each of the underlying pulses of music
- 8. Moving one musical style/form/element from one tradition to an unrelated one, adjusting it in the process
- 9. the pitches used in a particular performance; In Western music, a group of 5-8 pitches arranged according to a certain pattern of whole steps and half steps
- 11. The distance between two pitches
- 12. The cultural inheritance that is attached to an individual through ethnicity or cultural background
- 13. The simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches; a fundamental feature of Western music
- 15. If you double the frequency of a pitch, we perceive that as the same pitch an _______ higher. In Western music, we label both those pitches with the same name
- 17. The organization of rhythm into patterns of strong and weak beats
- 18. The musical texture in which each part plays a variation of the same melody. Common in several Asian cultures
- 19. The unconscious assumption that one’s own cultural background is “normal” while that of others is “abnormal,” “weird,” or “exotic”
- 22. The characteristic quality of the sound of a voice or instrument
- 26. _____ music, a term describing musics that are disseminated through media such as radio, records, TV, film or electronic files, subject to an aesthetic of innovation and mass appeal, and associated with the urban middle and lower classes
- 30. The system of harmony based on the major and minor scales