The degree to which tempo is maintained during a performance, applied to the orchestra or accompanying instruments.
Read the Coding Guide for this Line. Listen to each example at least twice. Once you have listened to all the examples, take the Test which follows.
Lines 26 and 27 share the same Musical and Test examples.
N. America, Southeast U.S. Southern U.S. A rhythmic chant by a N. Carolina tobacco auctioneer. (M. R. Key 1967.) N. America, Southeast U.S., Mississippi. A Black prisoner singing his personal field holler, a song that identifies him and expresses his feelings. (Lomax #14, B6) N.W. Europe, Scotland. A Hebridean crofter woman speaking Gaelic, then English, then singing a Gaelic milking song to her cow. (Lomax #33, B4) W. Europe, Spain, Andalucia, Seville. A famous flamenco singer using a high-pitched, narrow, embellished style, launches a saeta (an arrow of song) in honor of the Virgin’s grief, as the gigantic Holy Friday procession pauses to listen. Female solo. (Lomax #28, B23) N. America, Southeast U.S. Mississippi. A Choctaw Native American from a tribal tradition of complementary maize gardening sings with repetitions, wide leaps, and wide voices. (Hand, A4) Oceania, Melanesia, E. Papua, Mt. Yule. A Gerebi woman sings a plaintive love magic song about watching an insect crawling up a grass blade. If the insect stays to the end of the song, the magic will work. (Elkin & Dupeyrat #7, B7) N. Europe, France, Normandy. A comic ballad in a nasal voice with a burr and somewhat irregular meter that are often heard in French folk singing. (Marcel-Dubois & Andral, A5) Middle East, Iran. This composition from an old and sophisticated civilization in the Abu-Ata mode is played on the tar (plucked lute) and kemenche (bowed lute) by two males. (Danielou #1, B4) N.W. Europe, Ireland, S.W. Ireland, Cork. Played on a bodhran (single-headed drum) by two males from Dublin. (Leader, B1) E. Asia. China. Chinese High Moon, a contemplative composition from the Tang Dynasty (CE 618-907) played on nan hsiao (flute) and pip’a (lute) by two males. (Levy #3, B1) . S.E. Asia, Indonesia, Bali. One of the numerous forms of the gamelan is the angklung, usually heard at funerary rites. Several males. (Berthe B1)Which form of Orchestral Rubato is recorded here?
For each example below, choose the feature that best fits from the following scale.
Extreme rubato
Much rubato
Some rubato
No rubato
Consult the Coding Guide as needed. Note your answers in order to check them against the answer key.
S.E. Africa. The Chagga exhibit the magnificence of African mass singing with its overlapping parts, fluid harmonies, and surging power. Male leader with mixed group. (Tracey #2, (TR-153), A1) Reveal Answer N. America, Southeast U.S. A Southern U.S. Baptist congregation singing a long meter version of a Welsh hymn, in heterophony. The male song leader lines out the words from the hymnal followed by a mixed group. (Lomax #7, A3) Reveal Answer S. America, Inner Amazonia. A Shuar (Jivaro) man sings that his wife has brewed chichi (alcohol) and invites his friends and headhunting allies to drink. Note yodeling. (Luzuy, A5) Reveal Answer C. Europe. A W. Bohemian peasant girls’ choir and a string orchestra with the bass in lead collaborate in heterophony, or the simultaneous singing of different versions of the melody. (The former Czechoslovakia #2, B2) Reveal Answer C. Europe, Slovakia. A flageolet solo in shepherd style. (The former Czechoslovakia #6, A1a) Reveal Answer S. Asia, Nepal. Female solo. (Cronk, A6) Reveal Answer Australia, C. Arnhem Land. A semi-professional stickman and a song man perform dance music accompanied on the didjeridu, a large-bore, wooden trumpet requiring great strength and control. Three males. (West, B2) Reveal Answer N. America, Mexico, Jalisco. The drum and folk oboe, or chirimia of Spanish origin, announce the beginning of Holy Week. (Stanford & Warman, A6) Reveal AnswerLine 27 Test Answers: 1) Extreme. 2) Much. 3) No rubato (strict tempo). 4) Some. 5) Much. 6) Some. 7) No rubato (strict tempo). 8) Extreme.