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Diaspora
rather then being confined to a single geographic location, its people and their traditions are dispersed beyond the boundraies of the region
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silk road
- the trade route that connected asia, arabia and europe
- China to morocco
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Takht
- arabian ensemble
- instrumentation: ud, buzuq, nay, qanun, daff/riqq
- play the same melodie but not in unison
- some add ornimentaion
- others leave notes out
- Tremolos from the ud buzuq and qanun
- grace note pickups
- leaps
- trills
- turns
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ud
- short necked lute in arabian music
- 11 strings
- generally tuned in 4ths
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Buzuq
- Long necked flute in Arabian music
- 24 moveable frets
- 2 sets of strings in triple courses C and G.
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Nay
- reed flute
- blown obliquely at an angle
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qanun
a zither with seventy five strings in triple courses witha series of small tuning levers that allow the strings to be retuned in the course of performance.
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riqq/daff
arabian tamburine
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unison
playing the same thing at the same time
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tremolo
- evenly paced double or quadruple picking
- fast picking up and down on a string
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gracenote pickup
playing the note above or below quickly before landing on the main note.
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octave leap
jumping up or down an octave
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trills
ascillations between 2 adjacent notes
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turns
ornaments including a note above or below the main note.
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heterophonic
when 2 or more voices elaborate the same melody in different ways at roughly the same time
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ostinato
repetitive pattern
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taqasim
arabian improvisation
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maqam
- a music note or scale
- pursian, greek, turkish
- melodic content, place, location, rank, techique of improvisation
- over 70
- each exspresses a spacific emotion
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Bayyati
a maqam that begins on G
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cadentioal phrase
- concluding musical statement
- qafla
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vamp
rhythmic or melodic ostinato
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tarab
energized audiences during performances
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Azan
- a call to prayer
- heard 5 times a day
- not concidered music BUT it is musical
- a Proclomation
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Judaism/ Chritianity/ Islam
all monotheistic religions all originating from the same location
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muezzin
callers who broadcast the Azan 5 times a day from mosques.
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Ghunna
the nasal timbre of arabic singing
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Qur'an
- the arabic ancient religius text
- recited in a specific way
- sounds like music but is not called so
- recitation
- word of god
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Torah
teachings in the hebrew bible
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hadith
- the traditions of the prophet Muhammed that were preserved in the statements of his closest compamions adn eventually recorded in writing.
- provides an important source of guidance in matters of everday life
- like the Qur'an
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Magrib
- Where the sun sets
- North Africa: Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
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Mashriq
- where the sun rises
- Egypt and Sudan
- Concidered part of the eastern arab world
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The Sephards
Jews from spain
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Ladino
early spanish language that sephards used to sing repratories of sung poetry.
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Rebec, Vielle, Kamenj
Bowed mideval and Mediterranean lutes
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Flamenco
- arab andaluian influence
- dance
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rebab
1 or 2 stringed spiked skin coverd fiddle
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