MUS 1000
Review Sheet
Test IV
DISCLAIMER: This review sheet is intended as a study guide. Any material covered in
class or on the glossaries could be on the test – even if it does not appear on this review
sheet.
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For Musical Description III (150 points): you will hear a genre of world music that
we have discussed and listened to in class
Be able to hear and identify:
-instrumentation
-dynamic level
-tempo
-meter
-texture
-timbre (of vocals or instruments)
-what is providing melody
-what is providing harmony
-be able to take all information and write a descriptive paragraph describing the
musical example
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For Test IV (200 points):
LISTENING:
You will have to know the correct spelling for the performer, title and genre of the
following examples:
1. Mariachi Sol, “Cielito Lindo”
2. Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas, “Las Leyendas de Grecia”
3. Machito and the Afro-Cubans, “Sambia”
4. Tito Puente, “Oye Como Va”
5. Francisco Aguabella, “Nena”
6. Dizzy Gillespie, “Manteca”
7. Eyisam Mbensuon, “Fontomfrom”
8. Seckou Keita, “Dounuya”
9. Toumani Diabate, Taj Mahal, and Ensemble, “Atlanta Keira”
10. Angelique Kidjo, “Okan Bale”
11. Lillis O’Laoire, “Ag an Phobal De Domhnaigh”
12. Seamus Ennis, “The First House in Connaught/The Copper Plate Reel”
13. The Chieftains, “The Dingle Set”
14. Planxty, “Bean Pháidin”
15. Altan, “The Emyvale/Ril Gan Ainm/The Three Merry Sisters of Fate”
16. Eileen Ivers, “Gravelwalk”
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-12 bar blues form
-AABA/32 bar form
-collective improvisation
-what are the characteristics of swing
-Alan Freed
-six eras of music history and their dates
-classical musical style
-romantic musical style
------------------------------------------------------------studying music from all over the world helps us understand what three things?
-Latin American/Latin music
-diaspora
-mariachi
-vihuela
-guitarrón
-armonía
-gritos
-Afro-Cuban roots
-rumba
-clave
-claves
-mambo
-mambo kings
-the six features that define mambo in the 1950s
-timbales
-Machito and the Afro-Cubans
-Newyorican
-Tito Puente
-salsa
-son
-Francisco Aguabella
-Latin dance
-dawuro
-Akan
-fontomfrom
-the six unifying features of music in West Africa
-kora
-jeli
-bala
-koni
-Seckou Keita
-kumbengo
-Angelique Kidjo
-the five main categories of Irish music
-traditional Irish music
-sean nos
-airs
-traditional Irish instruments
-ceílí
-session
-uilleann pipes
-Seamus Ennis
-neo-traditional Irish music
-fleadhs
-Sean O’Riada
-bodhrán
-The Chieftains
-second generation of the Irish music revival
-bouzouki
-post-traditional Irish music
-Eileen Ivers