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Folk Music
Afro-Latin American Popular Music ● Expresses the character or ethnic
● Timbre- describes the sound, also and social groups
known as “tone color” ● Music transmitted orally
● Pitch- high or low ● Music with unknown composers or
● Rhythm- long or short music performed by custom over a
● Tempo- fast or slow long period of time
● Dynamics- crescendo or
decrescendo Country and Western
- Crescendo- loud ● Usually sung solo accompanied by a
- Decrescendo- soft guitar or banjo
● Shows the romantic imagery of the
● Texture- layer of sounds cowboy-depicting heroic deeds,
- Monophony- single nature
- Homophony- two
- Polyphony- more than two Ballads
● Pertains to a love song in slightly
● Product of 3 major influence: pop or rock music
- Indigenous Spanish
- Portuguese Disco
- Africa ● Rock music that is more danceable