Instruments
Vocabulary
Religious Concepts
Stylistic Features
Miscellaneous
100
This instrument is used to signal divisions in a service.
What is a shofar?
100
You can strum instruments with your finger or you can use this.
What is a PLECTRUM?
100
One of the most important religious figures in the Islam faith.
Who is Muhammad?
100
The antithesis of MUSIQA.
What is NON-MUSIQA?
100
What HU, HU means in a DERVISH ceremony.
What is "It is He" (reference to Allah)?
200
Iran's most distinctive and centrally important instrument.
What is the santur?
200
Towers where one can hear an ADHAN.
What are MINARETS?
200
A term for the Islamic call to prayer.
What is ADHAN?
200
Free, melismatic passages performed by ZAKIRLER.
What are KASIDE?
200
The Western term for a highly skilled type of dancing that would be accompanied by a TAKHT.
What is "BELLY DANCING"?
300
A large pear-shaped lute with short, fretless neck found throughout much of the Middle East.
What is the UD?
300
A term for a texture in which instruments perform the same meloy but with slight variations.
What is HETEROPHONY?
300
The term most frequently used in the Western world for the Sufi orders that present public performances of sacred music and dance.
What is DERVISH?
300
It is described as heightened speech- somewhere between singing and speaking.
What is CANTILLATION?
400
A percussion instrument one would expect to find in a TAKHT.
What is a DUFF or a RIQQ?
400
Term used to denote intervals smaller than semitones.
What is a QUARTER TONE
400
Every Muslim is expected to make a pilgrimage to this holy city.
What is MECCA?
400
A body of composed melodic phrases used in conjunction with DASTGAH.
What is GUSHEH?
400
A chordophone typically heard in Sufi ceremonies
What is the KAMANCE?
500
A very important aerophone used in Sufi ceremonies.
What is a NEY?
500
One of the best-known examples of "Israeli" music.
What is KLESMER?
500
Hebrew name for God.
What is Adonai?
500
A compositional kit found Arabic instrumental music.
What is MAQAM?
500
Mystical branch of Islam.
What is SUFI?
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