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100
This is a jazz musician who was given a jazz funeral.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This is a term for a composition for a gamelan emsemble.
What is a gending?
100
This is the location for most Syrian Jews after diaspora.
What is NYC?
100
This is a compositional process that adds words to pre-existing melodies.
What is contrafactum?
100
THis is the decade in which the era of LP tramsmission began.
What is the 1940's?
200
This is a famous composer of pizmonim music.
Who is Taboush or Ashear?
200
THis term descrbs the newer style of gamelan music, inspired by tourism in the 1920's and 30's.
What is gong kebyar?
200
In the ballad Gregorio Cortez, what happens to Gregorio in the end?
He is ultimately pardoned.
200
This is a Mexican epic ballad genre.
What is the corrido?
200
This is the source of the song, "Works of God" by Moses Ashear. (original tune)
What is O Tannenbaum?
300
This is a family of Hawaiian musicians.
Who is the Moe family?
300
This is a term to describe local, music making within the subculture.
What is a micromusic?
300
Which Venetian embarked on a 24 year trip across Asia, thus contributing to European-Asian trading and commerce?
Who is Marco Polo in the 13th-14th centuries?
300
THis is an improvisation, often found in Syrian Jewish music.
What is layali?
300
This is the decade of the first American Exposition, that displayed Native American musical traditions for profit.
What is the 1850's?
400
This is an American composer who became invlved with Gamelan music.
Who is Evan Ziporyn?
400
This is the first era in rocording history.
What is the phonograqph era?
400
This is the century when Asian silk first reaches Rome
What is the first century, BCE
400
These are songs of Arab-Jewish mixed elements.
What are pizmonim?
400
THis is an example of an ontology of music?
What is a genre, form, scales (pattern), instrument?
500
This is the founder of the Silk Road project.
Who is Yo-Yo Ma?
500
This is a term for melodic patterning in Arabic music.
What is maqam?
500
This is the century when the term "Silk Road" was coined by German geologist Richthofen.
What is the nineteenth century? (1877)
500
This is a religious song that can be used as a theme for improvisation in jazz.
What is a hymn?
500
THis is a philosopher who explained music as related to economic forces and influences.
Who is Carl Marx?