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The Middle East: Instruments
The Middle East: Music
India: Instruments
India: Music
Miscellaneous
100
This instrument is well known for its double strings and bent neck.
What is the oud?
100
This type of music was made by singing slave girls with low-class status.
What is Early Islamic Art Music?
100
This instrument is played by resting the end of on the player's right foot.
What is the violin?
100
This is one example of the occasions for which folksongs throughout most of India can be incorporated into.
What are weddings, story telling, coming of age, etc.?
100
This art form can accompany Indian classical music.
What is Dance?
200
This instrument's physical appearance is shared between at least 3 different cultures.
What is the Violin?
200
This form of tonality is unique to the Middle East.
What is a Maqam?
200
This is the most Soloistic instrument from India.
What is the Sitar?
200
This type of music usually requires a student devoting their entire life perfecting the forms of this music.
What is Classical Music?
200
We know almost nothing about this ancient culture's music.
What is ancient Egypt?
300
This instrument is the only aerophone from the Middle East that we've studied.
What is the Nay?
300
This is the name for the mini-scales that make up a Maqam.
What are Jin?
300
This instrument is a double-reeded aerophone.
What is the Shenai?
300
This type of music is a daily ritual; people learn these songs in their childhood and grow up knowing them.
What is Folk Music?
300
Classical Indian music ensembles can differ in instrumentation, but this instrument is both crucial and irreplaceable.
What is the Tanpura?
400
This instrument has strings that are tripled up, like a piano.
What is the Qanun?
400
Prior to the emergence of Islam, art music consisted of these types of songs.
What are Caravan and Folk songs?
400
Even though it may not be obvious, this instrument often requires the most amount musicianship to play.
What is the Tanpura?
400
These are the two styles of Indian classical music.
What are Carnatic and Hindustani?
400
This instrument is similar to the harp depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Thum?
500
This instrument has frets, a sound hole, and is often played with a pick. The strings are not double or tripled up.
What is the Buzuq?
500
Slides between notes, microtones, and trills are all forms of this musical term.
What is ornamentation?
500
This instrument rests on a pillow as the musician plays.
What is the Tabla?
500
This type of music is thought of as a countryside representation of the urban Indian society.
What is Folk Music?
500
These type of people are the only Ancient Egyptians depicted with instruments of any kind in hieroglyphics.
What are Women?