LAS MAS MUS 337 Final
Agustin Lara - -Radio personality in the 1930s who composed many
romantic songs of international fame, and captured the hearts of Mexican
listeners, especially housewives, in their homes.
- Areophones - -vibrations of air columns
- Bajo sexto - -guitar-like instrument with six double courses
- Bolero - -Emerged from Cuba in the 1880s
- Chordophones - -vibrations of strings
- Classical Nationalistic Music - -added individualistic interpretations of
urban popular music and contemporary life
- Classical post-nationalistic Music - -Composers turned away from
overtly identifiable sounds and music and nationalistic elements in order
to experiment with non-representational techniques after 1950.
Work is based upon the idea that humans go through life experiences
governed by rituals
- Dynamics - -volume and articulation of sounds
- Early Northern Conjunto - -Instruments include the accordion, the bajo
sexto, and electric bass, and a drum kit
- Elements of Dance - -body, effort, time, space
- Essentialization - -The process of reducing people and their cultural
expression to a limited set of essential characteristics
- Form - -underlying organizational structure of the sounds
- Gloria Rios - -Queen of rock and roll
One of the earliest stars of Mexican rock music on TV and recordings
- Guitarron - -a large acoustic bass guitar
- How did Chicano music during the late 1960s and early 1970s change?
- -People were frustrated with the government so music became more
political
, - How did the women in the film "Companeras" learn the mariachi
traditions of music - -They were self-taught or they studied classical music
in school. But some of them did learn from their family
- Huehuetl - -A percussion instrument from Mexico, used by the Aztecs
and other cultures. It is an upright tubular drum made from a wooden
body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base,
with skin stretched over the top. It can be beaten by hand or wood mallet.
- Idiophones - -vibrations of instruments body
- Independence Day in Mexico - -September 16th
- Is music a universal language? - -No; music is created for certain
purposes and if those purposes are not known the music can be misused
- Jorge Negrete - -singer-actor who became the idealized representative
of the handsome heroic rancher
- Jose Elizaga - -Mexican composer, music theorist, pianist, organist and
teacher
- Jose Pablo Moncayo - -"Extending nationalist sentiment"
Represented nationalism in music drawing from local sounds and musics
- Membraneophones - -vibrations of stretched skins, organic or
synthetic
- Mestizaje - -Indigenous-Spaniard offspring
- National Anthem - -an important symbol in Mexico's construction of
nationhood; an example of invented tradition
- Nueva Cancion - -The countercultural song movement that spread
throughout the Americas in the 1960s
Political music and protest songs
- Orquestra tipica - -important during the reign of President Díaz in
representing a modern national identity for Mexico and demonstrating its
cosmopolitanism as a nation.
- Pancho Villa - -A major leader during the revolution who's real name is
Doroteo Arango (1878-1923)
- Participatory Performance - -the audience has a role in the
performance
- Pitch - -frequency of the tone
Agustin Lara - -Radio personality in the 1930s who composed many
romantic songs of international fame, and captured the hearts of Mexican
listeners, especially housewives, in their homes.
- Areophones - -vibrations of air columns
- Bajo sexto - -guitar-like instrument with six double courses
- Bolero - -Emerged from Cuba in the 1880s
- Chordophones - -vibrations of strings
- Classical Nationalistic Music - -added individualistic interpretations of
urban popular music and contemporary life
- Classical post-nationalistic Music - -Composers turned away from
overtly identifiable sounds and music and nationalistic elements in order
to experiment with non-representational techniques after 1950.
Work is based upon the idea that humans go through life experiences
governed by rituals
- Dynamics - -volume and articulation of sounds
- Early Northern Conjunto - -Instruments include the accordion, the bajo
sexto, and electric bass, and a drum kit
- Elements of Dance - -body, effort, time, space
- Essentialization - -The process of reducing people and their cultural
expression to a limited set of essential characteristics
- Form - -underlying organizational structure of the sounds
- Gloria Rios - -Queen of rock and roll
One of the earliest stars of Mexican rock music on TV and recordings
- Guitarron - -a large acoustic bass guitar
- How did Chicano music during the late 1960s and early 1970s change?
- -People were frustrated with the government so music became more
political
, - How did the women in the film "Companeras" learn the mariachi
traditions of music - -They were self-taught or they studied classical music
in school. But some of them did learn from their family
- Huehuetl - -A percussion instrument from Mexico, used by the Aztecs
and other cultures. It is an upright tubular drum made from a wooden
body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base,
with skin stretched over the top. It can be beaten by hand or wood mallet.
- Idiophones - -vibrations of instruments body
- Independence Day in Mexico - -September 16th
- Is music a universal language? - -No; music is created for certain
purposes and if those purposes are not known the music can be misused
- Jorge Negrete - -singer-actor who became the idealized representative
of the handsome heroic rancher
- Jose Elizaga - -Mexican composer, music theorist, pianist, organist and
teacher
- Jose Pablo Moncayo - -"Extending nationalist sentiment"
Represented nationalism in music drawing from local sounds and musics
- Membraneophones - -vibrations of stretched skins, organic or
synthetic
- Mestizaje - -Indigenous-Spaniard offspring
- National Anthem - -an important symbol in Mexico's construction of
nationhood; an example of invented tradition
- Nueva Cancion - -The countercultural song movement that spread
throughout the Americas in the 1960s
Political music and protest songs
- Orquestra tipica - -important during the reign of President Díaz in
representing a modern national identity for Mexico and demonstrating its
cosmopolitanism as a nation.
- Pancho Villa - -A major leader during the revolution who's real name is
Doroteo Arango (1878-1923)
- Participatory Performance - -the audience has a role in the
performance
- Pitch - -frequency of the tone
