User:Cubanabop/Cross-functional musical terms

Cross functional Music Terminology

A note to Wikipedians who happen upon this page but are not in MASH (Music/PASJ 180)

This is an assignment part of the https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/University_of_San_Francisco/Music_and_Social_History_(Fall_2016) The Music and Social History class at the University of San Francisco is using this page is a collective sandbox for us to practice how to update Wikipedia only before we actually update real live pages. If you read a definition here and want to help a student how to Wikify it, please do not simply edit it or delete it, but use the discussion section to explain what suggestions you would make, so we can learn from it.

Instructions to MASH students

Each member of the class must research and define (in simple terms, that even a non-musician can understand) technical music terms, and to make sure there’s a reference to a real life piece of music that demonstrates the term. If you feel someone should see a related term in order to better understand the term you are describing, please add in auxiliary terms or suggested “see also:____” in your edits of others’ definitions.

By now you should have created a Wikipedia account (Wikipedia:SIGNUP) and reviewed the Help:Contents/Getting_started articles and any relevant Wikipedia:Tutorial you need to learn the rules of Wikipedia and basic navigation and coding information. Once you have chosen your terms to define, done the research on those terms, and are ready to update this page:

1. LOG IN so you are editing from within your own Wikipedia account
2. Choose “Edit Page” above or click the "edit" link on the section in question below on the page.
3. Put the contents of your completed entries in alpha order in the "Terms in Alpha Order", then DELETE the terms under "specific terms and their assignments" section so no one else takes them.

Helpful references and external dictionaries to get started on your research

Look to see if there’s an existing entry in Wikipedia for your term, use various glossaries, music dictionaries or encyclopedias. Please DON’T just copy/paste the text of a definition that you find. Your job is to make a one-or-two sentence simple description in your own words, and cite the source of your information using Wikipedia coding. Some external reference sources you might find useful for this project include:

• Oxford Music Online (available through Gleeson Library)
• Naxos Classical Music Portal Glossary of common terms
• Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Randal (a hard copy is in the PASJ office bookshelves in Masonic)
• Virginia Tech's Online Music Dictionary
• non-music dictionaries, like Lexic.us or Dictionary.com or The Free Dictionary

Example

The following example demonstrates a one-sentence description of a term with two different citations: one to a dictionary and one to an encyclopedia article. When you create a footnote, although the internal edit-page coding embeds the full reference information as part of the paragraph of your content, if you create your reference tag correctly, the reader will only see a hyperlinked footnote, and all reference material stored at the bottom of the page under "Notes." This definition also contains some optional additional features that you may find useful to practice: an internal Wikipedia link (since this term happens to have its own page here in Wikipedia) and an external link to a YouTube clip that allows the reader to hear the term in a real-life musical context. When you go to edit this page, you can use this real life example to see what the Wikipedia coding looks like for footnoting, internal links, or external links.

Word Painting: an imitative device used when writing music to create a sound effect to convey the literal meaning of a song's lyric. An example of word painting can be heard in Somewhere Over the Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz: the melody leaps up when the singer says the word 'up' in the phrase 'way up high'

Assignments: Terms that need to be defined

Choose one pair of terms, below, and define both terms. When you have defined a term, place each one in alphabetical order under the "TERMS IN ALPHA ORDER" section below. Remember to delete the pair you chose from this list up here so no one else uses it

   * strophic form; through composed form 
   * homophony; polyphony    
   * crescendo: decrescendo  
   * downbeat; backbeat    
   * middle 8; bridge  
   * meter; “free rhythm” 
   * simple meter; compound meter   
   * polyrhythm; accent  
   * texture; drone   
   * legato; staccato   
   * dissonance; consonance
   * absolute music; song
    deceptive cadence
   * tripleta; hemiola
   * montuno; mambo

TERMS IN ALPHA ORDER

place your term and its definition here, and make sure it is in alphabetical order, like this:

Sample Term in Bold: your definition in plain text, and code/insert your citations here in your text so they show up like a footnote You can also create an internal tag to an existing page in Wikipedia that uses the term. Just for practice, also include a video example so I can hear your term in context and type the name of the piece in next to your copied URL