Xylophones and Marimbas
Drums & More
Styles
Roots
Vocabulary
100
Xylophones and Marimbas are set up in a similar fashion to this more popular instrument.
What is a piano?
100
A wooden instrument of varying sizes with a slit carved in the side.
What is a slit drum?
100
The fusion of African, European & Caribbean musical styles.
What is highlife?
100
Yunluo
What is China?
100
The unique sound of an instrument or voice.
What is timbre?
200
These were used as resonators on the Guatemalan Marimba.
What are gourds?
200
A shallow cylindrical hoop over which a skin is stretched.
What is a frame drum?
200
Popular form or style for learning music before written music was developed.
What is call & response?
200
Cuica
What is Brazil?
200
A combination of two or more distinct musical styles.
What is fusion?
300
Richard Cook recorded Flight of the Ibis on this instrument that he invented.
What is the Imbarimba?
300
A type of snare drum, made of wood or metal, used in Brazilian percussion ensembles.
What is a caixa?
300
An ancient combination of Martial Arts, Dance and Music associated with Brazil.
What is Capoeira?
300
Udu Pot
What is Nigeria?
300
Rhythmic or melodic fragments that serve as the basic elements from which a more complex structure can be created?
What are motives?
400
This instrument can have as many as five octaves and be up to 9 feet long.
What is a marimba?
400
An instrument invented by Harry Partch, made from 12-gallon jars cut in half?
What are cloud-chamber bowls?
400
African influenced Puerto Rican style that involves drums and voice only.
What is Bomba?
400
Agbekor Ensemble
What is Ghana?
400
A samba composition using only percussion instruments.
What is a Batucada?
500
This instrument gets its name from the greek words for "wood" and "voice."
What is a xylophone?
500
Brazilian type of bass drum.
What is a Surdo?
500
African influenced Puerto Rican style that involves drums and other melodic/harmonic instruments.
What is Plena?
500
Cauyaq
What is Alaska?
500
A Chinese percussion ensemble named after the chinese words for Gongs & Drums.
What is luogu?
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