Central Asia
Name 2 of the 4 Countries of Central Asia we have focused on in our world music section.
What are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan?
The literal translation of the Japanese term Ongaku. (ANSWER IS NOT JUST MUSIC)
What is sound comfort?
This family of instruments was invented in Italy and are still played today.
What are Violins, Violas, Cellos and Bass?
The Carnatic subgenre of Indian classical music. is meant to be performed by this kind of musician.
Who are vocal musicians and what would be in a vocal style?
These languages was extremely popular for Russian Composers from before 1400 all the way up to the 1800s.
What are the languages Latin and Italian
We talked about multiple instruments from this category, that can be found in all our central Asian countries. Many of them looked similar, with most variation in the number of strings.
What is a chordophone?
This is where the Chin-don taiko drum gets its name.
What are the gong (chin) and drum (don)?
This style is unaccompanied, and sung by early Christians and performed by Roman Catholic monks on a single melody line.
What is monophonic singing?
True or False:
The Indian Pungi, is used to charm snakes for religious purposes.
False
The instrument was often used to entertain the public with snake charming. However, this practice was eventually banned throughout the country under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.
The two main styles of music in Russia's early music history.
What is Secular and Non-Secular?
A long narrative poem that recounts larger than life, heroic deeds of historical and legendary figures.
What is an epic?
This music would be found in the royal courts of Japan between 710-1185 in the Nara and Heian time periods.
Either the vocal style or the instrumental style we listened to
What is Buddhist chanting and orchestral court music?
The first professional musicians that performed for the royal courts of Italy.
What is a Court Musician?
30,000 year old cave paintings have been found in India depicting people playing music, believed to be drawn by these people.
Who are paleolithic or neolithic cavemen?
In 1648 the Russian czar made a choice that would negatively impact the culture.
What is when the Russian czar make secular music illegal?
The name of the mythical, warrior leader the kyrgz people see as a great leader.
Who is Manas?
Bunraku uses music that accompanies and enhances this form of stage performance in 17th century Japan.
What is traditional Japanese puppetry?
In the baroque period Italians found entertainment in watching operas from this genre, turning them into operas.
What are Greek myths within a staged musical context?
Hindustani is prevalent of this style of playing.
Using Persian or Islamic influences from Northern India. This music includes Swaras (notes), Shruti (microtones), Alankar (ornamentations), Raga (melodies improvised), and Tala (rhythmic patterns used in percussion)
What is an Instrumental style of music?
Empresses Elisabeth 1709- 1762 and Catherine the Great 1729-1796; also helped spread interest in Western music among the aristocracy by doing this.
What is bringing Italian operas east, to share with their friends and family?
A style of singing where a vocalist sounds more than a single pitch. These pitches are sung overtop of a drone.
What is overtone/ throat/ or polyphonic singing?
What is Jazz?
Name 2 of the 3 cities where major music schools started in Italy.
What are Venice, Rome, and Naples?
This genre is based on an combination of Indian folk, classical music, and modern beats from different parts of the world.
Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857), composed early Russian operas ”Ivan Susanin” and ”Ruslan and Lyudmila”. using these techniques.
what is to use the native Russian language and music traditions in secular music?