World Music Exam; Native America and Indonesia

MUNM 3113World Music EXAM III Section________Who are you?_____________________________________________________ I.Supply short but sufficient definitions for each of the following terms. (2 points each) 1.Gamelan – Constitutes the classical ensemble of Indonesian music that performs traditional instruments such as metal percussion tools including gongs and metallophones through specific musical techniques​. 2.Gong – An instrument that produces deep resonant sounds through wields using mallets during regular Gamelan performances. 3.2nd Great Awakening - During the early 19th century America, the 2nd Great Awakening functioned as a Protestant religious movement to develop Protestantism by merging individual conversion with community-wide moral and cultural responsibility and Native American religious beliefs. 4.Native American Church – In the beginning of the 20th century, the Native American Church formed from Native cultural spirituality combined with Christianity through peyote rituals alongside its sacred connection to holy communion. 5.Pelog scale – The Pelog scale serves Indonesian gamelan musicians by generating distinctive sounds during performances through its non-Western interval arrangement of seven-tones. 6. Water drum – Native Americans use water drums specifically because these percussion instruments make exceptional acoustic sounds when drummers hit the watery instruments.​ 7.Peyote rattle - A musical instrument used when participants perform the religious peyote consumption. 8.Yeibichai- A sacred song that simulates ancestral and supernatural divine calls used by The Navajo Night way ceremony performances. 9.Slendro scale - A five-note scale laid out uniformly specific for gamelan ensemble performance producing sound that differ from Western norms and result in specific tonal sound textures 10.Rebab - A bowed string instrument within Indonesian gamelan music that finds its presence in Java and Bali regions. This musical instrument maintains shape similar to a violin although its construction stands apart from violin designs while producing distinctive sound clips for gamelan performances. II.Short answer (variable credit). 1 What is the form of Shizhane’e’, and how was that determined? (2 points) Shizhane'e uses cyclic composition delivering various dynamic sections across its structure. The musical design emerges from the conversation between balungan intervals and their accompanying ornamental elements. The musical pattern consists of brief melodic parts that gradually gain more sound layers during its progression. 2 What is the pitch content of Gadasjot? (1 point) According to traditional Gamelan principles, the pitch content of this composition should utilize melodies based either on the Slendro or Pelog scale which run dissonant to ...