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Instruments
Terms to Know
Religious and Ethnic Groups
Cultural Considerations
Musical Genres
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This instrument is used in Mongolia and often accompanies throat singing.
What is a horsehead fiddle or a morin khuur?
100
Overtone singing from Mongolia (and other places).
What is throat singing?
100
The meaning of the hand positions in a Sufi Dhikr ceremony.
What is right hand up towards heaven and left hand down towards earth?
100
The reason the balalaika is triangle shaped.
What is the banning of instruments in 1648 and the ability to create balaliakas quickly.
100
A vocal repartee from Northeast Thailand with khaen accompaniment.
What is Lam Klawn?
200
An ensemble from Indonesia made up primarily of membranophones, metalophones, and gongs.
What is a gamelan?
200
The person who performs the Islamic call to prayer.
What is a muezzin?
200
An ethnic group originating in India characterized by a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
What is Rom or Roma?
200
Arabic word for a state of emotional transformation or ecstasy achieved through music.
What is tarab?
200
An Arabic music ensemble that includes zithers, lutes, drums, aerophones, and sometimes non-traditional instruments.
What is a takht ensemble?
300
A hammered zither from the Persian classical tradition.
What is the santur?
300
A Thai teacher.
What is a khru?
300
An example from our listening that is considered non-music by its religion.
What is the Call to Prayer?
300
A ceremony performed at a Thai school in which students reaffirm their allegiance to their teachers; one of the most important rituals of a classical musician's life.
What is a Teacher Greeting Ritual?
300
A European-derived dance music commonly associated with Jewish celebration; influenced by jazz and other non-Jewish styles.
What is klezmer?
400
The difference between Uillean Pipes and Scottish highland bagpipes.
What is that Uillean are bellows driven and Highland pipes are lung driven?
400
Generic term for a drum in Japan; played with sticks.
What is a taiko?
400
The minority branch of Islam.
What is Shia?
400
The name of the narrator in Kabuki theater.
What is the chobo?
400
Korean narrative vocal performance style, featuring epic-length stories.
What is P'ansori?
500
A long, metal trumpet played during Tibetan rituals.
What is a dung chen?
500
The structure in Javanese Gamelan in which music is organized into cycles defined by periodic punctuation played by a specific instrument.
What is Colotomic Structure?
500
A Sufi devotional act in which believers chant the name of God with the goal of entering an ecstatic state.
What is a Dhikr ceremony?
500
This 'ancient zither' describes the Chinese instrument that is played for scholarly and meditative purposes.
What is the guqin?
500
One or more differences between Balinese and Javanese Gamelan.
What is: Balinese is Hindu and performed for musical offerings, rhythmically dense and energetic; Javanese is performed for court rituals, puppet shows, dance and us stately and calm sounding?