China
What is a 10 year period in CHina’s history, from 1966-1976 marked by severe social and political upheaval.
What is cultural revolution?
Japan is a country slightly smaller than this state, but holds a population nearly four times as large.
What is California?
Korea is split into two regions. North and South. This region has a dictator ruling over it.
What is North Korea?
This is another name for overtone singing.
What is throat singing?
Tibet's nickname due to its extremely high altitude.
What is "the rooftop of the world"?
This quiet contemplation was for centuries a music particular to Chinese scholars and philosophers.
What is the music of the Guin?
Japan's location on these results in constant strains and concerns over earthquakes and tsunamis.
What are geographic fault lines?
North Korea has discarded most vestiges of tradition in favor of newly created and highly politicized forms of music inspired by the old soviet “socialist realism” This approach requires all art or music to have this or inspire this.
What are political ramification and inspire the people to uphold state policies?
What is China and Russia?
This is Tibetans biggest fear?
What is the fear of death?
This is a cultural stamp of the Chinese. Art, dance, singing, instrumentation, martial arts are all present in this bright and fascinating spectacle of theater.
What is Beijing or Peking Opera?
In Japan, musical instruments are treated as extremely refined artistic objects and remain unusually what?
What is expensive?
Korean narrative vocal performance style, featuring epic length stories.
What is P'ansori?
These animals play an important role in Mongolian culture.
What are horses?
What type of music did we study from Tibet?
What is Tibetan Buddhist Ritual music?
This is a type of tune that has one name but does not have lyrics. Applying whatever words we needed to have fit in many situations in many different shows.
What is a labeled tune?
While Chinese and Korean music sounds “busy” Japanese music prefers this and makes silence an integral part of the soundscape.
What is minimal activity?
A significant description of P'ansori performances includes what type of physical strength. They need this due to the long length of time they perform.
What is breath support?
Music was considered a form of communication between these two worlds.
What is the human world and the spiritual world?
Tibet also has this form of singing, but it was thought to appease the demons that controlled the elements.
What is throat singing?
An institution for education in musical performance and composition.
what is a conservatory?
Name the two forms of Japanese music we have studied in class.
What is gagaku and kaboki theater?
What is extensive training, practice, education?
In mogolian throat singing the voice and the sounds it creates is to represent this.
The name of the Buddisht monk who brought Buddhism to Tibet.
Who is Padmasambhava?