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37 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm
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relative length of sonic events in a piece of music, pattern of movement through time
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Meter
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regular groupings of the basic pulse
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Timbre
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tone or sound quality
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Texture
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the relationships between the different voices, the quality of overall sound produced
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Monophony
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a single melodic part alone
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Heterophony
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simultaneous performance of two or more versions of the melody
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Melody and Drone
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one part holds same pitch over which a melody is played
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Homophony
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succession of chords, church hymn
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Contrapuctal
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many melodic lines played simultaneously, equal in importance, compete for listener's attention
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Form
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structural design of a piece
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Ostinato/cyclical
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short pattern repeated persistently
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Strophic
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the words change, the music stays the same
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Binary
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AABB
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Ternary
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ABA
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Through composed
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new music is composed for each stanza of text
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Sign
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something that stands for something else, to someone in some way, internal context
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Semiotics
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a type of analysis that concentrates on how signs function to create actual effects in perceivers
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Icon
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resemblance between the sign and object, booming kettle drums in a piece of music are icon for thunder or canons
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Index
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actual association or co-occurrence of the sign and object in ones experience, hindi film song index for the region where it is from, India, emotional power, smoke fire, siren danger
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Symbol
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linguistic agreement about the meaning of a sign, = symbol means equals, certain chord means red, when you hear chord, you think red, chord is symbol
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Effect
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Emotional (index), Energetic (icon), Thinking (symbol)
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Semiotic density
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the relative number of signs potentially occurring simultaneously within a particular sign complex
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Indexical Snowballing
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historical layering of meaning in indexical signs
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Creative Indexing
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novel effects and new meanings in music, visual art, certain types of literature, wearing a formal dress with red sneakers or using a classical sample in a hip hop piece
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Self
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a body plus the total set of habits specific to an individual
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Identity
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the partial selection of habits and attributes used to represent oneself to oneself and to others by oneself and by others, situationally relative
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Habit
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a tendency toward the repetition of any particular behavior, thought or reaction in similar circumstances
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Culture
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the habits of thought and practice that are shared among individuals
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Cultural Formation
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constellations of habit that are shared among groups of people across cohorts, driving on the right side of the road, speaking english, stopping when the light turns red (Americans)
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Cultural Cohort
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social groupings that form along the lines of specific constellations of shared habit based in similarities of parts of the self (biker clubs, age, football fans)
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Socialization
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the attainment of models for living that are realized through active learning as well as through the imitation of those around us that often occurs below focal awareness
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Discourse
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a relatively unified constellation of habits of thought and expression which shape peoples reality about a particular subject or realm of experience- racial discourse, nationalist discourse, gender discourse
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Cosmopolitanism
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constellations of habits that are shared among widely dispersed groups in countries around the world but that are not traced to any particular homeland
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Participatory
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an stristic practive in which there are no artist-audience distinctions, only participants and potential participants performing different roles, and the primary hoal is to involve the maximum number of people in some performance role
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Presentational
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situations where one group of people, the artists, prepare and procide music for another group, the audience, who do not participate in making the music or dancing
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High Fidelity
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the making of recordings that are intended to index or represent live performance
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Studio Art
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the creation and manipulation of sounds in a studio or on a computer to create a recorded art object that is not intended to represent or be related to real-time performance
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