chapter 11 music

a written representation, description, and interpretation of some aspect of music culture

aspect of the musical culture being represented

chanting religious text

iron bell or gong

a dried gourd the size of a cantaloupe covered with a net strung with seeds

high pitch and dry timbre of this slender drum cuts through the more mellow midrange sounds of other drums

mibirra

traditions are dispersed beyond the boundaries of the region

comprises 7 instrumentalists who play the most important instruments in Arab traditional music

playing together on the same pitches

fast strumming or picking up and down on a string

repetitive pattern

musical mode or scale in arab world

two small drums, one of metal and pot shaped. the other of wood and cylindrical

arabic guitar

devotional song. is sung primarily as an offering to god

classical music of south india

the english word for karnataka sangeeta

the principal song form of south indian classical music

time cycle in indian music

the drone

double headed barrel shaped drum from india

beats are grouped into regularly recurring metric cycles

a free flowing exposition and exploration of the raga and its facets and phrases