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Non-Western Music
YGK These Non-Western Classical Music traditions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The traditional percussion ensemble of Indonesia that inspired the work of Claude Debussy | Gamelan |
| The gamelan piece that was included on the Voyager Golden Record | Puspawarna |
| The cyclic rhythmic patterns and melodic framework (balungan) used in gamelan are separated into these measure-like units | Gatras |
| The Thai ensemble featuring xylophones (renat), gongs, and the oboe-like pi | Piphat |
| The two main subdivisions of Indian classical music | Hindustani and Carnatic |
| The melodic modes and rhythmic patterns that form the basis of Indian music | Ragas and talas |
| The influential 20th-century sitar player who inspired the Beatles | Ravi Shankar |
| A long, seven-stringed plucked zither with a history of thousands of years in China | Guqin (or Qin) |
| The Chinese composer of the "High Mountain Flowing Water" guqin piece included on the Voyager Golden Record | Bo Ya |
| The 17-pipe mouth organ used in Japanese Gagaku court music | Sho |
| The three-stringed, guitar-like instrument used to accompany Japanese kabuki theater | Shamisen |
| The end-blown bamboo flute associated with Zen Buddhist monks | Shakuhachi |
| The Japanese drumming tradition mythologically rooted in the luring out of the sun goddess Amaterasu | Taiko (or Wadaiko) |
| The melodic modes and rhythmic patterns used in Middle Eastern music | Maqams and iqa’at |
| The small Middle Eastern ensemble that typically uses the oud, qanun, kamanja, and darbuka | Takht |
| The North African and Spanish musical tradition featuring works known as nubas | Andalusi music |
| The melodic system of Turkish classical music defined by "flavor" (cesni) and "journeys" (seyir) | Makam |
| Turkish military ensembles that inspired the works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven | Mehterhâne (or Janissary bands) |
| The repertoire of seven primary modes (dastgahs) and fixed melodies (goshas) in Persian music | Radif |
| The five-part Persian suite that includes improvisational avaz and the ballad-like tasnif | Dastgah |
| The protest song "Bird of Morning," used to oppose both Iranian shahs and the modern theocracy | Morqe Sahar |
| The "six-mode" musical tradition of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan | Shashmaqam |
| The musicians-historians-storytellers of the Mandé peoples who formed an aristocratic caste | Griots (or jèli) |
| The griot of Sundiata Keita and ancestor of the Kuyate dynasty | Bala Faseke |
| The 21-stringed “harp-lute” of West Africa made famous by Toumani Diabaté and Sona Jobarteh | Kora |
| The gourd-resonated xylophone used in jeliya music | Bala |
| The basic vocal melody in jèliya music, distinct from the recitative sataro | Donkilo |
| The instrumental parts of jèliya, consisting of the flighty birimitingo and this underlying ostinato | Kunbengo |
| The “thumb piano” central to the musical tradition of the Shona people of Zimbabwe | Mbira |
| The hardwood soundboard to which the metal tines of an mbira are fitted | Gwariva |
| The resonator, often made of calabash or fiberglass, used to amplify the mbira | Deze |
| The leading part in a traditional mbira duet, followed by the kutsinhira | Kushaura |
| The maraca-like instrument used to keep the beat in mbira music | Hosho |
| The most common mbira tuning, which corresponds to the western Mixolydian mode | Nyamaropa |
| The Westernized version of the mbira created by musicologist Hugh Tracey | Kalimba |
| The "chimurenga" pop music artist who popularized mbira sounds in the West | Thomas Mapfumo |
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