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20 Cards in this Set
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Islamic call to prayer |
-Heightened speech (conservative muslim teacher) - NOT considered a song also in the discretion of individual - pitches used form a mode - melody somewhat improvised but according to convention - syllabic and melismatic text setting |
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Taqasim Improvisation (Arab Maqam) |
- Maqam --> arabic/turkish modes or system of expectations for composition and improv
- 25 divisions of octave - melodic material --> inorder to reall create the mood that the music is supposed to create, is supposed to be learned with each maqam - Taqism --> metered/unmetered instrumental improv on maqam. |
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Tahkt Instrumental Ensemble |
- accompany music and dance |
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oud |
Lute chordophone *silk road to chinese pipa |
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Qanun |
- Metal plucked lute |
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Ney |
aerophone
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darabuka |
(egyptian) - membranophone |
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riq |
fish skin tambourine |
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Sufi Hymn (dither ceremony) |
- dikhr --> sufi ritual that believers chant the name of god in entering an ecstatic state
- attempt of closeness and intimacy with god - men will come in black robes = whirling dervishes - sufi's are seen as hudderites and are band but ok nowadays to perform |
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rebab
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bowed chordophone |
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bedir |
small drug |
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Dastgah |
(Persia) - persian scale system with rules and expectations for composition and improvisation - it's the GRANDADDY - 12 dastgahs |
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Nuclear pitches |
(Dastgah) - when a particular pitch is the nuclear and you improvised inspired by the melody of that pitch |
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gushe |
a progression of phrase/length melodies within each dastgah - about 20 to 30 gushe |
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Radif |
300-400 combinations of gushes nd dastgahs over the systems distributed within all 12 dastgahs |
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Santur |
Stricken zITHER also related to yang quit |
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tar |
guitar |
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kamanche |
bowed lute |
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ney |
aerophone |
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zarb (tonbak) |
drum |
