Music

Music History

This is a glossary of terms we have used so far:

whole note - 4 beats half note - 2 beats quarter note - 1 beat dotted notes - increase the value of the note by half dotted half-note - three beats

measure - a group of beats common (4/4) time - one measure has 4 beats, the quarter note has the beat - emphasis on beat one with minor emphasis on beat three 3/4 time - one measure has 3 beats, the quarter note has the beat - emphase on beat one with a minor emphasis on beat three texture - the number of instruments that are being played at any one time syncopation - emphasis is not placed on the beat off-beat: notes that are not played on the beat

gankogui - a Ghanaian double bell Gahu - a Ghanaian song originating in Nigeria (called kokosawa) that ridicules Africans who have taken up western clothes or behaviour atsiakago - a rhythm played against the side of a drum with sticks

__Gahu__ atsiakago part - together, right left right left right left right gankogui part - low high, high, high, high, high sogo - 'look at me' (open, close, close) kidi - 'I'm drumming you see' - (o- o-pen, clo-se) kaganu - 'mama' - on off-beats

__Forms__ canon - a piece in which the same part begins at different times

__Theory__ pitch - the frequency of a note (how high or low a note is) - named after the alphabet - A B C D E F G scale - a group of notes that are commonly used together chord - a group of notes played together - solid (at the same time), broken (following each other)

__dynamics__ - how loud the music is performed piano (p) - softly forte (f) - loud mezzo (m)- medium pianissimo (pp) - very softly fortissimo (ff) - very loud

__articulation__ - how the notes are connected legato - smoothly staccato - detached portamento - partly detached