World Musics
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Nhac Tai Tu | show 🗑
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show | classical ensemble from Thailand characterized by the use of melodic and rhythmic percussion and a double-reed aerophone
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show | Thai teacher; linguistically associated with word “guru” found in Hinduism
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Ramayana | show 🗑
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Khaen | show 🗑
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show | layering of simultaneous variants of the same melody
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show | music organized into cycles defined by periodic punctuation played by a specific instrument (basis for Javanese Court Gamelan)
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Pi | show 🗑
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Palm Wine Guitar | show 🗑
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show | idiophone consisting of several metal bars graduated in length to produce different pitches
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Maqam | show 🗑
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Dastgah | show 🗑
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show | hammered zither from Persian classical tradition
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show | fretless, plucked pear-shaped lute found in Arabic music traditions and is the origin of certain lutes of Africa, Asia, and Europe
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Kanun | show 🗑
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Takht | show 🗑
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Khöömei | show 🗑
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show | Japanese chamber ensemble, consisting of voice, koto (zither), shakuhachi (flute), and shamisen (lute)
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show | popular music theater form developed for Japan’s middle class in the 18th C
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show | Arabic word for a state of emotional transformation or ecstasy achieved through music
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show | Suf ritual in which believers chant the name of God with the goal of entering an ecstatic state
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show | Islamic call to prayer
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show | person who calls Islamic believers to worship 5x a day
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show | belly-dancing
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Raqs balladi | show 🗑
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Palm Wine Guitar | show 🗑
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show | poet/praise singer and oral historian from the Mandinka of Western Africa
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show | harp-lute or bridge harp played by a jail during his poetic recitation
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show | genre of choral performance common among migrant workers of S. Africa
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Atumpan | show 🗑
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show | lamellophones found in Africa
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Akadinda | show 🗑
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Iscathamiya | show 🗑
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Balalaika | show 🗑
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show | Spanish musical tradition featuring vocals with guitar accompaniment, characterized by passionate singing and vibrant rhythm
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Duende | show 🗑
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Pibroch | show 🗑
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show | bellows-driven pipes of Ireland, means “elbow”
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Hurdy Gurdy | show 🗑
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Ululation | show 🗑
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Bagpipes | show 🗑
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Rom | show 🗑
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Cimbalom | show 🗑
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show | popular music from Jamaica characterized by a rhythmic emphasis on the offbeat and by politically and socially conscious lyrics
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show | popular music from Trinidad characterized by improvised lyrics on topical and broadly humorous subject matter
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Pan | show 🗑
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show | African-derived animistic belief system found primarily in Cuba and USA
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show | rhythmic pattern in Salsa music, also an instrument
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show | Latin American ballroom dance as well as a song type emphasizing call-and-response vocal organization
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show | predecessor of reggae, Jamaican response to American rhythm and blues/rock and roll
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Vaksin | show 🗑
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Rastafarianism | show 🗑
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Siku | show 🗑
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Bombos | show 🗑
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Totem | show 🗑
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Tango | show 🗑
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Bandoneon | show 🗑
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Mariachi | show 🗑
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Samba | show 🗑
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show | dance developed from a style of martial arts created by runaway slaves in Brazil
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Agogo | show 🗑
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show | notched scraper idiophone found in Latin American music traditions
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show | back-and-forth motion used as a basis for capoeira dancing
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Pandeiros | show 🗑
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Peurt a Beul | show 🗑
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Céilidh | show 🗑
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show | pan-tribal American Indian event celebrating Native American identity and culture, generally also open to non-Native Americans
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Conjunto | show 🗑
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show | minister would read the psalm before it was sung
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Semiotics | show 🗑
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show | creator of music encodes meanings and emotions into the “neutral” composition or performance
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Esthesic | show 🗑
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Ethocentrism | show 🗑
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show | scholarly study of any music within its contemporary cultural
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show | researchers combine learning to play the music under study with field observation (Ki Mantle Hood)
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show | de-emphasizes description and the search for absolute truth in favor of interpretation and the acceptance of the reality of truth
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show | foundational list of core composers and works every music student is expected to know
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show | study of musical instruments
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show | standard classification system for musical instruments created by Curt Sachs and Erik M. von Hornbostel
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show | produces sound through air vibration
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show | stringed instruments (lutes, zithers, harps, lyres)
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Fret | show 🗑
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Idiophones | show 🗑
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show | have a vibrating membrane
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Melodic contour | show 🗑
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show | continuous or repeating sound
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show | rhythmic relationship of words to melody; can by syllabic (one pitch per syllable) or melismatic (more than one pitch per syllable)
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Phonic Structure | show 🗑
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show | music with a single melodic line
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Polyphony | show 🗑
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show | multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea in the same meter
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Independent polyphony | show 🗑
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show | multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
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show | perspective of a cultural outsider
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Emic | show 🗑
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show | hammered zither from the Persian classical tradition. Often cited as the origin of hammered zithers found throughout Asia, N Africa, Europe, and the W Hemisphere
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Zurna | show 🗑
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show | round-bodied lute from turkey
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Polynesia | show 🗑
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Didjeridu | show 🗑
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Aborigines | show 🗑
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Animism | show 🗑
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show | term describing Australian aboriginal spiritual belief system and concept of creation
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show | islands in Pacific Ocean, means “black islands” because of darker skin pigmentation of majority of population
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Portamento | show 🗑
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Pahu | show 🗑
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Kilu | show 🗑
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show | Hawaiian dance songs using drum accompaniment
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Micronesia | show 🗑
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show | fretless, plucked lute from India
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Caste System | show 🗑
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Raga | show 🗑
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show | India’s film industry, Bombay and Hollywood
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Bhajan | show 🗑
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Bauls | show 🗑
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Bols | show 🗑
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Gat | show 🗑
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Alap | show 🗑
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