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100
This composer heard gamelan music in 1889.
Who was Claude Debussy?
100
This is a form of vocal gamelan.
What is Kecak?
100
This is an Indian drum utilized in the chapter.
What is the tabla?
100
This is an American jazz musician who was influenced by Indian music in the early 1960s.
Who is John Coltrane?
100
The vina belongs to this Indian music tradition.
What is Karnatak?
200
This is the capital city of Indonesia.
What is Jarkata?
200
This is a distinctive interlocking rhythmic pattern played on cymbals.
What is kilitan telu?
200
This is music of south India.
What is Karnatak?
200
This is a famous Bollywood playback singer.
Who is Shreya Ghoshal?
200
This is an Indian social institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of raga performance.
What is a gharana?
300
This is a processional form of gamelan music.
What is gamelan beleganjur?
300
This is a local neighborhood in Bali.
What is a banjar?
300
This is Ravi Shankar's daugher, sitarist?
Who is Anoushka Shankar?
300
This was a British classical musician who collaborated with Ravi Shankar in the 1950s
Who is Yehudi Menuhin?
300
This is the Agama Hindu term for "soul".
What is atma?
400
This is the capital city of Bali?
What is Denpasar?
400
This is the year the gamelan contests began in Bali.
What is 1986?
400
This instrument plays the drone in Indian music.
What is the tambura?
400
These are sacred Hindu chronicles.
What are the four Vedas?
400
This is a term that describes the shaking between 2 pitches that are close but not exactly matching.
What is ombak?
500
This is a form of contest gamelan with costume and dance added.
What is kreasi Beleganjur?
500
This is the term for the choreographic element in contest gamelan?
What is gerak?
500
This is the section in raga performance that is slow and unmeasured?
What is the alap?
500
This is Ravi Shankar's guru?
Who is Baba?
500
This is the term for "explosive" gamelan developed in Bali largely during the spike in tourism during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
What is gamelan gong Kebyar?