Burmese Harp associated with the indoor style of Saing Waing.
What is the Saung Gauk?
100
The great singer of Egypt who was known for her diction, emotional performance of text, her use of radio, and her identity as a symbol of Egypt.
Who is Umm Kulthum?
100
Appopriate time, place, and circumstance.
What is desa-kala-patra?
100
The juxtaposition of contrasting rhythms, timbres, or patterns.
What is faceting?
100
Collective ornamentation of one melody.
What is Heterophonic Texture?
200
Traditional Burmese court music ensemble. The ensemble is typically distinguished by the inclusion of tuned drums.
What is Saing Waing?
200
A set of codified rules that governs how the Qur'an should be sung and the proper behavior, and process of chanting the Qur'an.
What is the tajwid?
200
The principle of "making slow and adding flowers" that describes the heterophonic process of ornamentation in Chinese music.
What is fangman jiahua?
200
The themes that describe West African values surrounding performance (name 4).
What are utility, participatory community, balance, temporal boundary, and spiritual connection?
200
The process of making lower class traditions palatable for middle class taste.
What is classicization?
300
"Great songs." A collection of song texts passed down through the Burmese courts.
What is the Maha Gita?
300
A type of Qur'anic recitation that is slower and allows for much more ornate improvisation from the chanter.
What is Mujawwad?
300
A type of Tuvan throat singing that produces a high, whistle-like melody.
What is Sygut?
300
The bell sound that is the central organizing force of West African polyrhythmic music.
What is the gagonkui?
300
Control by one state over anther territory (colony) intended to exploit that territory for the economic, strategic, and political benefit of the state. (metropolitan country)
What is Imperialism?
400
A Vietnamese instrument. Monochord instrument that changes pitch by differing the tension on the string after it is plucked.
What is the Dan Bau?
400
The underlying arabic aesthetic that describes how great music should move the listener to a state of ecstasy.
What is tarab?
400
The aesthetic belief in Indonesia that good music is tightly interlocked.
What is konpak or sip (tight) or kotekan (interlocking)?
400
Two instruments that describe the African and Spanish influences of Son Jarocho.
What are the quijada de burro and the tarima?
400
The process by which music becomes a symbol and often becomes relabeled by those in power or those trying to communicate to those in power.
What is resignification?
500
Principle differences between Thai Piphat music and Khme Pinn-Peat.
What are the lilt of the rhythm and placement of the melody?
500
An arabic scale that expresses love, femininity, extreme emotion.
What is maqam nahawand?
500
Ren and Li.
What are the social virtues of confucianism that encourage amateur music making as a form of collective self-improvement?
500
A Mexican genre that features virtuosic violin playing and the use of falsetto voices in singers.
What is son huasteco?
500
The four aspects of intercultural dialogue as defined by the United Nations.
What are: account for memory/history, account for dynamic change in culture, built by competency, and empower?