Vocabulary for Chapter 2

1. Vocabulary for Chapter 2 • Timbre: the quality of sound • Ethnomusicologists: professional who study the music of different cultural groups. • Anthropologists: scientists who study the physical and cultural characteristics and social customs of a group of people. • Empathy: the ability to look at the world from another person’s perspective.

2. Continued • Lali: a warrior dance that the Bamileke people perform. • Mestizo: A spanish term for “mixed culture” • Arpa: a 35-stringed harp that plays both melody and bass. • Requinto jarocho: a four-string guitar that provides melody • Jarana: a thin guitar that provides rhythmic and harmonic accompaniment

3. Last one! • Mariachi: a musical group with several violins, two trumpets, a bass guitar called “guitarron,” a short five-string rhythm guitar called “vihuela,” and a six-string guitar. • Peking opera: an art form that combines an orchestra with speaking, singing, acrobatic martial arts, and pantomine. • Heterophony: musical texture that occurs when performers sing or play the same melody, but each in its own appropriate way, according to voice or instrument.