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    Musicology

    139 (Fall 2019)


    Vocabulary (terms and phrases) Exam

    “traditional hierarchy of Western Art tonal hierarchy
    Music” melodic contour
    musicking mode
    ethnocentrism
    texture
    ethnography monophony
    subject homophony
    topic heterophony
    fieldwork polyphony
    melody and drone
    Javanese gamelan hocketing
    call and response
    copy paradigm vs. construction paradigm
    clock time vs. brain time form
    music temporality form-as-process
    universal time form-as-structure
    relative time repetition
    hierarchical time variation
    rhythm contrast
    meter strophic form
    simple
    compound
    additive
    kinetic interplay
    sense of movement in time (forward,
    static, linear, cyclical)
    syncopation
    polyrhythm
    polymeter

    sound
    pitch
    absolute pitch
    harmonic spectrum
    harmonics
    timbre
    the physical characteristics of timbre

    scale
    pentatonic sale
    melody
    note distribution and the triad
    note stability

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