A recitation that is not music, but music-like in its execution.
Quranic recitation
100
The Indian classical system of melodic modes
Raga
200
This Inter or Trans- tribal event combines traditional and non-traditional elements in performance of "Native Americanness."
Powwow
200
This popular music of India (and the world) has highly choreographed and richly orchestrated songs.
Bollywood
200
The most common instrument in North Indian Classical music. And if you didn't know, The Beatles used it in several songs.
Sitar
200
Music from this region uses this texture in general
Heterophony
200
The Middle Eastern system of melodic modes
Maqam
300
This dance, based on a ceremony of the same name, is originally from the 1890s in which participants aim to wake the ancestors.
Ghost Dance
300
This ceremony from the Himalayan region alleviates curses, strengthens bonds in a family or village, helps worship ancestors, and ensures good blessings on family and village.
Jagar ceremony
300
An important South Indian plucked string instrument
Vina (Veena)
300
Musical "ecstasy," "deep listening," or heightened emotional state.
Tarab
300
The introductory improvisation of a rag.
Alap
400
Many Native American songs are revealed to singers by this.
Dreams and visions
400
The traditional family-based structure of music performance and education in India.
Gharana
400
These instruments play together using a technique called kotekan.
Gamelan
400
This Islamic order concentrates on ritual and ceremony and uses music to connect with the divine.
Mevlevi Sufis
400
The marking of fixed beats in the structure of gamelan music
colotomic structure
500
Most Native American music is learned in this way.
Oral tradition
500
This devotional music of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh uses a call and response technique.
Qawwali
500
An important instrument in Sufism which "cries out" as a metaphor for humans to return to God.
Ney
500
She was probably the most important singer of Egyptian music in the 20th century.