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What two main types of instruments would you expect to hear in South America?
percussion (beaten & shaken)
and guitars
What two TYPES of instruments are associated with Jiangnan sizhu?
silk stringed & bamboo
Which style of music has elegant dancing, intertwined rhythms, and a seductive undertow?
Afro-Peruvian Lando
What is the term for the Islamic call to prayer?
Azan
Western (European-based) music traditionally uses semitones (half steps). What tones are used in the Arab World (2).
What is the term for the high-pitched, trilling cry of excitement performed by women at events such as a Levant wedding?
zagareet
How would you describe the meter in the folksong "Fang Ma Shan'ge" (Releasing the horses into pasture)?
duple
(or steady, or fixed)
What instrument is heard in Bolivian k'antu?
Zampona
(panpipes)
What is the name for the "blues" music of North Africa?
rai
What is the term for improvisation in Arab music?
Taqasim
What Chinese symbol indicates that opposite forces are interconnected and counterbalancing?
Where do the Bunun people reside? (They sang Pasibutbut.)
Taiwan
(aka Republic of China)
What is the term for members of an ethnic group who reside, at different moments in time, both in their home territory and in different nations?
Transnational migrants
What is the term for the social dynamics enacted in the course of a performance of Arab music?
Tarab
What is the term for the dispersal of notes of a melody among multiple voices or instruments?
hocket
What is the term for the continued existence of aspects of culture in migrant groups long after those aspects of culture have died out or developed into something new in their place of origin?
marginal preservation
In what style is "The Joyous Festival of Lunar New Year's Day" written?
Social Realist Style
What two groups are blended with indigenous and American/European sounds in South America?
Portuguese/Spanish (colonialism)
African (slavery)
What song was written by Rahim Alhaj about the political oppression he experienced in his home country?
"Horses"
Which south American song featured fully vocal counterpoint?
"El Aparecido" (Inti-Illimani)
What is the term for two phrase halves which have the same or similar rhythms?
isorhythm
In what way did "Weidao" (by Winnie Hsin) cause an ideological conflict in modern China, and what was China's solution?
personally revealing = damages moral fiber
BUT...economically profitable
So...ALL MUSIC ALLOWED
(but not all broadcast on public networks)
dulzura
In which Arab piece of music do you hear gender complementarity?
"Batal al Bab"
(from Salalah/Sultanate of Oman)
Name the three primary philosophical systems found in China.
(not the philosophers, the systems)
Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism