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CHAPTER FIVE

Chapter 5 Music Journal Assignment

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             Huaimin chen                                                                                                                 

Chapter 5 Music Journal - Part 1: The Informative Content

 1. Define the following terms:

Key Terms

Definitions or Explanations or comments

Decrescendo

 The dynamic level gradually changes from louder to softer.

 

 

Crescendo

 changes from softer to louder.

 

 

Acoustic (as in acoustic instrument)

 

 Not amplified

 

Dynamic range

 

 The range of volume between the softest and loudest tones 

Ensembles

 groups comprising instrumentalists, vocalists, or a combination of instrumentalists and vocalists.

 

 

Harmonics

 

 overtones

 

Didjeridu

 

 

 

 

 Aboriginal Australian aerophore

Music instrument

 

 Produces tones to make music

 

 

Instrumentation

Includes voices.

 

 

Hornbostel-Sachs classification system

 

chordophones, aerophones,

membranophones, and idiophones

 

 

Aerophones

 

 

 

 Produces sounds via vibrating columns of air

 

 

Idiophones

 

 

 instruments that produce sounds from the vibrations of their own bodies

Membranophones

 

 

 Drum-type instruments

 

Chordophones

 

 

  Instruments that have strings

Electronophones

 

 

 Produce sounds via electronic

Drumset

 

 

 Compound instrument consisting of a combination of membranophones

Multitrack recording

 

 

 Layer dozens upon dozens of separate

Digital sampling

 

 

 Allow any sounds to record

Overdubbing

 

 

 Separately recording

 

Chapter 5 Journal - Part 2: Online Music Illustrations and the Annenberg Video

2. Complete the Chart below in response to the above listening example - Chapter 5 Musical Illustration Number 16 - Distinctive timbres of several world music Instruments

Time

Instrument

Describe the Timbre

Possible Instrument Classification (Idiophone, Chordophone, Aerophone, Membranophone, Electrophone)

0:00-0:06

Indonesian Anklang

 

 

 Hitting spoons

 Idiophone instruments

0:07-0:18

Mexican guitarron

 

 

 strings

 Chordophone instruments

0:19-0:26

Ugandan mandinda

(xylophone)

 

 Hitting sounds

 Idiophone instruments

0:27-0:37

Native American powwow drum

 

 Drum

 Membranophone instruments

0:38-0:48

Javanese Gong

 

 

 

 Idiophone

 Idiophone instruments

0:49-0:53

Japanese sho (mouth organ)

 

 

 Harp

 Chordophone instruments

0:54-0:59

West African axatse (rattle)

 

 

 Shaker

 Idiophone instruments

1:00-1:07

Appalachian dulcimer

 

 

 Guitar

 Chordophone instruments

1:08-1:19

Balinese suling (bamboo flute)

 

 

 Smooth

 Aerophone instruments

1:20-1:24

Andean siku

(panpipes)

 

 

 Smooth, flute

 Aerophone instruments

 

 

3. it is influenced by technical and aesthetic factors.

 

 

 

Chapter 5 Music Journal - Part 3: Reflections

What, in this chapter, was new to me?

 

 There is so many musical instruments style

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What, in this chapter, would I like to know more about?

 

 

 Different styles of phones