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Settler Colony | MUSC - World Music, Quizzes of World Music

Class: MUSC - World Music; Subject: Music; University: American River College; Term: Forever 1989;

Typology: Quizzes

2010/2011

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TERM 1
Settler Colony
DEFINITION 1
Hosted large number of Europeans, and hosted lively creole
music.
TERM 2
Plantation Colonies
DEFINITION 2
Due to the higher level of cultural depression, and the fact
that the slave trade ended earlier causing neo-African
populations to decline, there was no music in Plantation
Colonies.
TERM 3
Caribbean Music Originally Derived
By:
DEFINITION 3
Africa, with features deriving from the west.
TERM 4
Creole
DEFINITION 4
A music style, also called syncretic, that is a mixture of
African-derived, and Western-derived elements.
TERM 5
African Music in Creole
DEFINITION 5
Constitutes a common denominator in most Caribbean
music, with lively syncoptions, call-and-response vocal
formats, and ostinatos.
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Settler Colony

Hosted large number of Europeans, and hosted lively creole

music.

TERM 2

Plantation Colonies

DEFINITION 2

Due to the higher level of cultural depression, and the fact

that the slave trade ended earlier causing neo-African

populations to decline, there was no music in Plantation

Colonies.

TERM 3

Caribbean Music Originally Derived

By:

DEFINITION 3

Africa, with features deriving from the west.

TERM 4

Creole

DEFINITION 4

A music style, also called syncretic, that is a mixture of

African-derived, and Western-derived elements.

TERM 5

African Music in Creole

DEFINITION 5

Constitutes a common denominator in most Caribbean

music, with lively syncoptions, call-and-response vocal

formats, and ostinatos.

Syncopations

Rythms emphasizing offbeats.

TERM 7

Ostinatoes

DEFINITION 7

Repeated Musical Phrases

TERM 8

Rumba

DEFINITION 8

Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance

that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical

traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish

colonizers.

TERM 9

Indo-Caribbeans

DEFINITION 9

are the descendents of Indentured laborers who immigrated

from India to the Caribbean during the colonial period.

TERM 10

Contradanza

DEFINITION 10

A style of classical music from Cuba. Outside of Cuba it is

known as the Habanera.