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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 with the scroll 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 regions.
What is the Violin?
200
This form of modal tonality is unique to the Middle East.
What is a Maqam?
200

This instrument's job is to provide a drone under the rest of the ensemble.

What is the Tanbura?
200
This type of music usually requires a student devoting their entire life perfecting the forms of this music.
What is Classical Music?
200

This is the region of Africa that has been most influenced by Arabic culture.

What is Northern Africa?
300
This aerophone is played in the Middle East.
What is the Nay?
300
This is the name for the mini-scales that make up a Maqam.
What are Ajinat?
300
This instrument is a double-reeded aerophone.
What is the Shenai?
300
People learn these songs in their childhood and grow up knowing them. Oftentimes nobody knows who wrote 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 Tanbura?
400
This instrument has three strings per note, similar to those on 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

This is the most soloistic instrument from India.

What is the Sitar?
400
These are the two styles of Indian classical music.
What are Carnatic and Hindustani?
400
This is the name of the famous Sitar player whose videos we have been watching to study classical Indian music.
Who is Anoushka Shankar?
500
This instrument has frets, a sound hole, and is often played with a pick. There is one string per note.
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. It can play both high and low pitches.
What is the Tabla?
500
This is the type of modal tonality commonly used in Indian Music.
What is a Raga?
500
This is the member of the Beatles who went to India to learn the Sitar and played it on an album by the band.
Who is George Harrison?