Music Cultures Of The World

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Sitar

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a plucked string instrument: a long neck, adjustable frets, 3 types: melody, drone, and sympathetic strings

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tabla

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a pair of small tuned drums

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bansuri

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the Indian Classical flute, often made from wood

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harmonium

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a small portable organ

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mridangam

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a 2-headed barrel-shaped drum

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raga

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1. the scale or mode of a piece of music
2. a set of rules governing how the notes are to be played.
3. a set of associated moods, feelings, and actions related to the raga.

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Alap

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the slow, rhytmically free introduction to an Indian Classical piece, feat the perfomance of the notes of the raga

"to introduce"

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Jor

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a faster, rhythmically active section that follows the alap; the drummer joins the group and provides rhythms

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Jhala

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the very fast, virtuosic conclusion, designed to highlight the muscians skill of improvising at a high rate of speed

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Kriti

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a song, preserved through oral transmission, in the Southern Indian tradition

-composed in 4 sections: alapana, pallavi, anupallavi, and caranam

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Kathak

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an important genre of Indian Classical dance

a. a narrative, story telling
b. non-narrative, "abstract" dance

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bharata natyam

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South Indian dance style closely linked to hindu temple rituals

"a devotional dance to shiva"

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qawwali

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Sufi muslim devotional music designed to inspire religious commitment and ecstatic trance in listeners and the audience.

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bhangra

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a type of contemporary, popular dance music originally created by immigrants from the Punjab region of India living in the U.K and U.S