Musical Instruments from Around the World
Country Music
Music Through Time
Functions & Roles of Music
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The caracaxa is an instrument in this South American country where the residents speak Portuguese.

What is Brazil?

100

Ancient civilizations 2,500 years ago from this country equated each season of the year with a musical tone or musical instrument.

What is China?

100

An example of this function of music is heard in talking drums used by many groups in Africa.

What is communication?

100

These are music specialists who study music in its social and cultural contexts.

What is an ethnomusicologist?

200

The ritchak, a two-stringed lute whose sound box is made of a discarded, rectangular gasoline can, is played in this country.

What is Afghanistan?

200

Music from this country uses raga and tala: https://youtu.be/HmKJB-_aU0Q?feature=shared&t=234

What is India?

200

Prehistoric bone flutes made in France and Slovenia existed this many years ago.

What is 53,000?

200

Sailors sing theses to coordinate hauling in sails.

What are sea shanties?

200

Archaeoacoustics is the study of the acoustical properties of this geological structure.

What are caves?

300

These are the names of the instruments in Saudi Arabia that are played in a suite of pieces called the Nawba and are translated to mean lute, flute, and tambourine.

What are the ud, nay, and duff?

300

Flutes and whistles dating back 10,000 years and rock carvings from 6,000 years ago showing musicians & dancers have been found in these two U.S. states.

What are Colorado and Utah?

300

This human invariant rarely exists, if at all, without music.

What is dance?

300

A popular misconception of the timeline of art and technology is that as our skill in making tools improved, we worked faster and thus gained leisure time for creative endeavors. This is false because human beings are as much this as they are tool makers.

What are artists?

400

The bodhrán drum is a frame drum that is used in traditional music of this country, which is also famous for its style of dance that doesn’t use arms and its Guinness.

What is Ireland?

400

A form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and members are known as whirling dervishes, is practiced in this country. https://youtu.be/hkuimX1bh6g?feature=shared&t=111

What is Turkey?

400

Boomerangs, bullroarers, whistles, flutes, & trumpets have been found to have existed this many years ago in Africa & Western Asia.

What is 20,000?

400

This is one of the most common & most effective means of helping to shape appropriate, socially approved behaviors in children.

What is music?

400

This technology, which is already becoming obsolete, was first used for musical applications and was later linked with computers for the storage of other kinds of information.

What is a CD?

500

This rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum is played with bare hands and originates from West Africa.

What is the djembe?

500

Music from this region of a continent tells an epic story of Sunjata, the founder of the ancient Mali Empire: https://youtu.be/yOS78ul1_rA?feature=shared&t=44 

What is West Africa?

500

The oldest known example of musical notation was used this many years ago.

What is 3,800?

500

It may not be so much the text of the song or quality of the performance, but the style & manner of singing that make this successful.

What is a lullaby?

500

These four invariants bear a special relationship to music.

What are religion, celebrations and rites, altered states of consciousness, and dance?