World music Chapter 6 PDF

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Chapter 6 of the book World Music. ...

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World Music Chapter 6 1. The kinds of relationships that emerge and evolve between them define the element of music called texture. Form is the element of music that pertains to the large-scale dimensions of musical organization. 2. Monophonic is the music with single-line textures is not limited to performance by a single musician. Two, ten, a hundred, or five thousand individuals can contribute to a monophonic texture, so long as all of them play or sing together in unison. Polyphonic may result from playing or singing of different parts on different instruments, or it may occur in the part of a single instrument that can play more than one note at the same time, such as piano and guitar. 3. A melody accompanied by a drone is one of the simplest types of polyphonic textures. In a melody-plus- done texture, the melody unfolds over a sustained, continuous tone, as in the Scottish bagpipe performance of “Amazing Grace.” 4. Harmonized textures emerge when notes of different pitch occur together to form chords, or “harmonies.” Each note of melody can generate its own chord. Multiple-melody texture occurs in polyphonic music that features two or more essentially separate melodic lines being performed simultaneously. 5. Cycle forms are similar to ostinato-based forms, but the repeated unit of the cycle is typically longer than that of an ostinato. The majority of blues songs are in a cyclic forms called the 12-bar blues. Each cycle is 12 measures long and has the same basic chord progression as the others....