Instrument Classification
Defining Music & Ethnomusicology
Mexico
Indigenous South America
Indigenous U.S. & Canada
100

The instrument itself vibrates to produce sound

What are idiophones?

100

This research method distinguishes ethnomusicology from other studies of music

What is participant-observation?

100

The jam session/dance party in which sones jarochos are traditionally performed

What is fandango?

100

This type (or "shape") of dancing is prevalent both in the Altiplano and among Native Americans

What is circle/circular dancing? 

100

The Northern Paiute prophet who began the Ghost Dance Movement

Who is Wovoka?

200

The kazoo's category

What is membranophone?

200

The kinds of music that ethnomusicologists study

What is "all music"?

200

A Costa Chican friction drum that produces a deep vibrating sound

What is Bote (or Arcuza or Tigrera)? 

200

A snare drum found in the Andean mountains of Bolivia

What is Caja?

200

An important food source for Plains tribes that is also a common subject of Ghost Dance songs

What is buffalo?

300

The 3 sub-categories of chordophones

What are lutes, zithers, and harps?

300

The creator of the word "ethno-musicology"

Who is Jaap Kunst?

300
Idiophone drum used in Mexica (Aztec) rituals

What is Teponaztli?

300

The hocket-style of playing melodies in a sikuriada

What is "trenzado"?

300

The Diné word for "gods-their-grandfathers," which is also a song style

What is Yeibichai?

400
The fortepiano's category AND sub-category

What are chordophone and zither?

400

The first systematic study of non-western music, which privileged quantitative research

What is Comparative Musicology?

400

Pole descenders of Puebla and Veracruz since Pre-Conquest

What are Voladores?

400

Runners spreading news throughout the Incan Empire

What are Chaskis?

400

The event that ended the Ghost Dance religion

What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?

500

The thumb piano's category AND sub-category

What are idiophone and lamellophone?

500

Jimi Hendrix protested the Vietnam War in his rendering of this song at Woodstock in 1969

What is "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

500

The god invoked in this style

Who is Ruja?

500

The Andean region in which this music originated

What is the Altiplano?

500

The name of the ceremony in which this song is performed

What is Nightway?

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