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Musical Terms I
Instruments
Musicians
History
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This is a Vietnamese lullaby.
What is a ru?
100
This is an Indian 2 headed membranophone. (single drum)
What is the mrdangam?
100
This a a Vietnamese composer.
Who is Pham Duy?
100
This is the first mention of bagpipes in Europe.
Emperor Nero in Rome in the first century, CE
100
This is an Irish/Scottish social event with music and dance.
What is a ceilidh?
200
This is the rhyhmic patterning in Indian music.
What is the tala?
200
This is a Vietnamese monochord.
What is the dan bau.
200
This is a famous Lebanese singer who emigrated to the US.
Who is Hanan Harouni?
200
This is a pull factor for Chinese immigration to the US in 1850.
What is the Gold Rush or the railroad?
200
These are associations made in the Arab world with 'ud playing.
What are: health benefits to players/audience, cosmological references to seasons and zodiac
300
This is an Arabic musical form that alternates free and rhythmic sections.
What is a mawwal?
300
This is an Arabic chordohone, but is not the 'ud.
What is the qanum?
300
This is a famous African-American singer with concert/operatic influences.
Who is Paul Robeson?
300
This is a collection of African-American spirituals, published in 1867.
What is Slave Songs of the United States?
300
Decade of Vietnamese (under Ho Chi Minh) defeat of the French.
What is 1950-60?
400
This is a borrowed composition in Indian music which is subsequently treated to extensive improvisation.
What is the kriti?
400
This is the Irish bagpipe.
What is the uilleann?
400
This is a famous family of bagpipers who are connected to New England?
Who are the MacCrimmons?
400
This is the decade when the US congress first outlaws the international slave trade.
What is 1800-10?
400
This is the deity figure associated with the Hindu observance, Mamangam.
Who is Krishna?
500
This is a Chinese song genre about travel and everyday life.
What is a muyu song?
500
This is an Indian chordophone, but is not the sitar.
What is a tambura or veena?
500
This is a Chinese composer of muyu songs.
Who is Uncle Ng?
500
This is the name of the empire largely responsible for development of Arabic arts and culture.
What is the Ottoman empire?
500
This is a term used by psychologists in reference to the alignment of bodily motion with music.
What is musical entrainment?