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Lamellaphone
instrument has a series of thin plates, or "tongues", each of which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.
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Polyphonic
a texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody
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“Interlocking
Parts”
To unite or join
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Ostinato
phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, usually at the same pitch.
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“Call and Response”
a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians
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Supranationalism
Extending beyond or transcending established borders
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Diaspora
scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area
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Liminality
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals
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Mestizo
mixed-race people
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Rake‘n’ Scrape
Its most distinctive characteristic is the use of the common handsaw as the primary instrument, along with various kinds of drums, box guitar, concertina, triangle and accordion.
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Calypso
style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid 20th century.
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Ethnomusicology
tudy of music (broadly defined) that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological,
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Folk Music
traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century. No author
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Trinidad
largest and most populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago
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Mbira
wooden board with attached staggered metal keys
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Hosho
consisting of a pair of maranka (mapudzi) gourds, known as with seeds.
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Kora
harp built from a large calabash cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck
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“Jew’s Harp”
it consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame. The tongue/reed is placed in the performer's mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note.
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Banjo
- he banjo is a four-, five- or (occasionally) six-stringed
- instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a
- resonator.
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