Europe
Africa
The Caribbean
Mexico and South America
Canada and the U.S.
100
Mode of composition for Byzantine chant
What is echo or echoi?
100
The organizational basis for for most music traditions in Africa.
What are polyrhythms?
100
Popular music from Trinidad that is noted for the witty vocalist's “poking fun” social commentary.
What is calypso?
100
A small friction drum used in samba music.
What is a cuica?
100
A bluegrass term that refers to the high tenor harmonies.
What is high lonesome?
200
A term in flamenco music that means passion.
What is duende?
200
A type of vocal organization characterized by having a leader and a group.
What is call and response?
200
Instrument that plays the basic organizational pattern of rhythm in Cuban son.
What is the clave?
200
Button box accordion used in tango music.
What is a bandoneon?
200
The name of the father of bluegrass music and his band, which is a reference to their home state.
Who is Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys from Kentucky?
300
A chordophone found in France and Hungary that uses a wheel turned by a crank to vibrate the strings.
What is a hurdy gurdy?
300
An activity that accompanies much African music.
What is communal dance?
300
The scraping instrument is the rhythmic time keeper in merengue.
What is the guirra?
300
Bowed instrument used in capoeira.
What is the berimbau?
300
Term that refers to syllables used in singing that are of unknown meaning to all but the ancestral spirits. Found in what kind of music?
What are vocables in Native American music---specifically Plains Indians?
400
One is lung driven and one is bellows driven.
What is the difference between Highland and Uillean pipes?
400
Mandinka poet/praise singer and oral historian from Senegal to Gambia.
What is a jali?
400
The lead voice in a Bahamian rhyming spiritual.
What is the rhymer?
400
The name for pan pipe/s used in a high Andean country (2 answers).
What is the siku/sikuri from Peru?
400
Dominant instrument in Cajun music.
What is the accordion?
500
Why the balalaika has its unusual shape
What is the straight lines were easier to construct quickly after all instruments were burned?
500
A term that refers to 2-3 people playing different repeating rhythmic patterns that fit together.
What is an interlocking rhythm?
500
A type of ensemble developed after drums were banned in Trinidad.
What is tamboo-bamboo?
500
A martial arts dance form from Brazil.
What is capoeira?
500
A song that tells a story; originally from the British Isles and then Appalachia.
What is a ballad?
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