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a stationary tone or tones, usually played or sung during a section of music or throughout an entire performance. Some instruments, such as bagpipes, constantly play a drone tone/note

rhythmic linear technique using the alternation of notes, pitches, or chords

literally “different sound”; performance of a single melody by two or more individuals who add their own rhythmic or melodic modifications. The “difference” comes from the individual variations and ornaments.

struck idiophone w/ rectangular metal keys

a word composed of various sounds or letters without regard to its meaning

predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others

• melodic scale used for imporvistion, each with distinct melodic character, ornaments, and notes of emphasis; also, the system of melodic scales
• literally "color" or "mood"
• traditional associations

system of metric (temporal) organization

most important note of a raga

ornamental note

• opening section of raga
• played by soloist in free rhythm with tampura or done

• a fixed musical figure
• same medolic phrase again and again

reed flute

a drone four-stringed lute with gourd resonator used as a drone instrument

an electronic drone

• most famous classical musician
• sitar, composer
• musican ambassador- beatles woodstock montery pop festival

long-necked lute with gourd resonator used in southern India

pair of two small membranophones used in northern India

• mnemonic syllable
• define the tala, or rhythmic pattern
• the short words the tabla player uses

small tambourine with single set of jingles

nickname for the Indian film industry in Bombay(now called Mumbai)

• mass enterrtainment
• large number of films produced in several languages
• muscial numbers in most films
• fast production and schedules
• standard plots/characters

• versatile, multi-lingual
• prodigious

most famous playback singer

• famous musical composer
• Lagaan

• 2001
• first Bollywood film nominated for Academy Award
• A.R. Rahman

7 string zither

• archetypal Wuxi folk musician
• Taoist priest who preformed on the street for money
• infulenced the Jiangnan style

a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer

• Jiangnan = south of the river
• sizhu = silk & bamboo
• late 19th centery
• typically performed in tea houses
• merchant class patrons
• amateur musicians

core repertoire of Jiangnon sizhu

• zither with bridges
• many ornaments produced by non  plucking hand
• modern descendent of qin

• chinese violin
• bowed two string fiddle

pear shapped lute

flute with interior membrane to add timbre

end-blown flute

mouth/cluster organ

• Chinese drama w/music ancient Jingju fairly recent
• civil division - fiddle
• military - percussion
• acrobatics/martial arts
• all roles played by men
• Farewell my concubine

aerophone

• Mao Zedong's comebakc
• radical reform
• carried out by red guard
• public humiliation
• anit-western

• old customs
• old habits
• old culture
• old thinking

• Mao Zedong's wife
• cultural revolution

leader of Carsick Cars

Chinese indi rock band

• The creation of life and earthly features by totemic ancestral spirit-beings
• parallel reality, occured in the past but also exists in the present and future

• paths across the continet linking these totemic emblems
• sacred objects that have returned to the lind

• aerophone
• made out of hollowed out tree
• only found in the north
• drone note
• circular breathing

circular breathing

sticks used for percussion

• special performer
• songs to describe day-to-day events
• handed down from spirits while dreaming

 individually owned dance songs typically accompanied by didgeridoo and used in both ceremonial and non-ceremonial contexts.

kidnapping of mixed-race children in the 1960s

• band leader of Yothu Yindi
• namded Australian of the year in 1992

• award winning band
• album names "treaty"

Tuva term for throat or overtone singing

emphasizes clear, ringing overtone, de-emphasizes fundamental drone of normal voice

normal voice most clearly audible, with ringing overtones audible

emphasizes deep "subtone" or "undertone" (octave below normal voice) w/ringing overtone

plucked lute, similar to banjo

two-stringed fiddle, normally decorated with horse-head carving (often called "horsehead fiddle")

flute

Genghis Blues

Artist

• musical group
• incorporates western instruments

• Indonesian ensemble consiting of gongs, and metallophe
• unique names/tuning
• court ensembles

pentatonic (5-note) scale of somewhat equidistant intervals

heptatonic (7-note) scale of large and small intervals

polite, refined, or courteous

large gong

snall hanging gongs

• specified instruments to mark off intervals of time
• in gamelan performed by gongs

• "skeleton"
• basic/core melody played by metallophones

• metallophones
• played with one mallot

• medium and small gongs
• on horizontally wounted on wooden racks

female solo singer who sings with a gamelan

bamboo flute

• shadow plays
• all night

wayang kuilt pupetmaster

• Balinese gamelan style
• to burst into flame
• to flower

interlocking patterns played on the pairs of instruments

• kettle looking gong
• struck with mallets
• dampened with hand

• enacts scene from Hindu epic Ramayana
• "monkey chat"