What are the features of Aboriginal music?
- Singers, percussion, digeridoo
- Short melodic sections, descending in pitch
- Pulse/beat with clapsticks used by the singer
What are some aboriginal instruments?
Digeridoo, clapsticks, gum leaf,
What are the features of African music?
- The importance of rhythm
- Idiophones and membranophones
- Ostinatos/repeated rhythm
- Polyrhythms
- Call-and-response
- Constant tempo
- Singing in tribal language
What are some african instruments
Dunduns(drums) slit log drum, gourds and rattle
What are the features of irish music
- Dance based
- Lively tempo
- Heterophonic texture
- Ornamentation
- Simple forms, repeated sections
- Compound time, 9/8, 6/8
What are some Irish instruments?
Bohdran(drum with double sided drumstick), tin whistle, fiddle(violin), guitar, banjo
What are the features of Japanese music
- Pentatonic scale
- It was used for propaganda
- Singing in japanese
What are some Japanese instruments?
Sanshin(very skinny guitar with 3 strings), Ching Dong Drum
Ideophone
Vibrates when hit or scraped
Membranophone
A drum made of a hollowed out object covered on the top by membrane
Aerophone
Wind instrument
Chordophone
stringed instrument
homophonic texture
only melody and harmony, which have the same rhythm
Monophonic texture
Only one melody, played by one instrument, or multiple
Polyphonic texture
multiple different melodies playing simultaneously
heterophonic texture
Multiple variations of the same melody played simultaniously
binary form
Two sections (AB, ABAB etc.)
Ternary form
three sections, the third similar to the first (ABA)
Rondo form
Alternation between the main theme and other sections(ABACA or ABACADA)
