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Survey of World Music Final
Eastern Europe
36
Music
Undergraduate 3
12/13/2006

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non-pulsitile songs; asymmetric meters; repetitive dance rhythms with isorhythm; bright timbres; epic songs; socialist realism
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characteristics of hungarian folk music
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bela bartok
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young hungarian composer that "discovered" the folk music of his home and brought it to the eastern european music world.
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isorhythm
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short rhythms repeat even as the melody notes change
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assymetrical meters
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complex meters with beast that quickly change duration; characteristic to music of the balkans and bulgaria
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socialist realism
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aesthetic style during the communist period where the arts served the state; enforced to greater or lesser degrees professional composition and so-called folk ensembles
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settled between 5th and 9th centuries; became known as gypsies because of a mistaken notion that they originated in egypt; many different Romani groups with distinct dialects and musical traditions are scattered throughout europe
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hungarian folk music historical background
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romani
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proper name for the "Gypsies"; formed their own distinctive musical culture
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verbunkos
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romani bands that featured violins and bagpipes and cimbalom; comes from the hungarian military word for "recruiting"
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cimbalom
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the hammered zither that replaced bagpipes in verbunkos; came from turkey
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csárdás
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national dance of hungary; fast and slow tempos in simple duple meter
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anhemitonic pentatonic scale
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characteristic of hungarian folk song; scale of five pitches per octave with no semitones
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parlando-rubato
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italian term meaning free speech rhythm; prominent rhythmic type in hungarian folk songs; heavily ornamented; emphasize emotional expression and the meaning of the text
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tempo-giusto
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italian term meaning strict tempo; prominent rhythmic type in hungarian folk music; emphasize repetitive dance rhythms
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cimbalom
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hammered zither; highly cultivated instrument that rivals piano in hungarian homes
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citera
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plucked zither with frets similar to german and scandanavian zithers
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furulya
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shepherd's vertical duct flute; versions reach up to meter in length; performers sometimes murmur and hum while playing, creating a distinctive timbre
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tancház
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hungarian dance clubs; name comes from the traditional village music hall; literally means "dance houses"
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Szájbögö
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vocal percussion created by mouth sounds; literally means "mouth bass"; also a type of Romani dance song
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horo
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bulgarian circle dances; lively and energetic communal activities
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kaval
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bulgarian rim-blown flute held at an angle in front of the player; related to middle eastern nay flute
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gudulka
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bulgarian pear-shaped vertical bowed fiddle with three strings; occasionally has sympathetic strings as well
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gaida
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bagpipe with a drone pipe and a melody pipe; well known for its virtuosic ornamentation; popular instrument with for weddings and outdoor celebrations
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tambura
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bulgarian long-necked fretted lute with four strings or double courses
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tupan
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bulgarian large cylindrical bass drum, slung across the body and played with two sticks
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calendar songs
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russian songs for a particular holiday or season
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isorhythm
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repetition of rhythmic motives while the notes of the melody change; used in russian music
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table songs
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russian songs sung traditionally around the table at a party or a banquet; include improvised polyphony of up to four parts
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balalaika
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russian lute with frets and a distincitive triangular sound body
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domra
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russian lute with a round sound body, usually used to strum chords
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gusli
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russian plucked zither described as having a wing shape; thought to have come originally from byzantium in middle ages similar to the kanun of present-day Turkey
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bayan
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russian button accordian; popular instrument since 19th century now found in many folk bands
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zhaleyka
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russian small single-reed shepherds pipe; sometimes appears with double pipes
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igor stravinsky
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most famous european art music composer of the 20th century; inaugurated the modernist style of music in the early 20th century; interested in the folklore and folk music of his country
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formula song
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type of song found in traditional russian wedding ceremonies; consists for of short repeating rhythms and motives repeated over and over, sometimes with isorhythm and sometimes in assymetric meters
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polytonalities
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more than one tonality at a time
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polyrhythms
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different simultaneous meters
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