When you were born, the doctor recorded how much you weighed and how tall you were. Your statistics may have looked something like "8lbs 4oz and 21 inches long." Over the next few years, you grew and gained weight at a quick pace. You learned to sit up, roll over, stand, walk, and communicate in complete sentences. You continued to grow and develop into the person that you are today. Naturally, you can do many more things today than you could as a baby, things like cooking your own dinner and thinking logically through a situation. Music in any culture undergoes growth and change as well. The focus of this lesson is an introduction to folk music, its common uses and distinguishing characteristics. During the lesson, you'll do the following: OBJECTIVES ? Identify characteristics and uses of folk music. ? Compare and contrast classical, folk, and popular music. ? Explain something of ethnomusicology. VOCABULARY 00:00/00:00 aurally hearing with the ears ethnomusicology the study of music of different cultures folk music music of the common people conveyed aurally and usually associated with a specific activity monophonic music using a single voice part polyphonic multiple voice parts popular music music of urban society often written down and developed primarily for entertainment strophic a song style in which verses are sung to the same tune with a repeating chorus in between