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beating tones
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acoustical phenomenon perceived as shimmering quality
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clave
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instrument and rhythmic pattern
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charanga
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a type of cuban dance music that involves the flute and violin. Charanga orchaestras.
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congas
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tall, narrow, single headed drum from cuba but of African origin
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danzon
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official music of cuba, european ballroom influence
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gamelan
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a large indonesian ensemble consisting mainly of metallophones
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gamelan gong kebyar
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a type of balinese gamelan, known particularly for its shimmering sound and interlocking parts
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montuno
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repeated part of song in salsa music and style of piano playing in cuban/salsa music
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pelog
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gamelan tuning system / scale
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slendro
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common scale used in indonesian gamelan
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timbales
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single headed drums, highly tuned shallow tom toms of
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cello
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bowed, stringed instrument... lowest sounding violin family
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erhu
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chinese violin, 2 string fiddle
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glissando
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continuous sliding from one pitch to another
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pipa
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pear shaped lute, chinese lute... father of the biwa, bipa
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pentatonic
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5 note scale
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sheng
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mouth blown reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes
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tabla
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popular indian percussion instrument, pair of hand drums
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tremolo
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regular, rapid repitition of a regular note
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bandoneon
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a button accordian associated with the Tango
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bhangra
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A tightly choreographed men’s group dance, originally from the Punjab region of North India, with pronounced leg and shoulder movements and occasional waving of arms high overhead; bhangra has become a popular competitive dance in the Asian diaspora
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compadrito
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a type of urban gaucho reputed to be both Don Juan and pimp
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dhol
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a double-headed South Asian membranophone associated with bhangra
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giddha
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a dance performed by the Punjabi women that is equivalent to the male bhangra
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habanera
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musical style or genre from Cuba with a characteristic "Habanera rhythm"; it is one of the oldest mainstays of Cuban music and the first of the dances from Cuba to be exported all over the world
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Kathak
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one of the classical dance forms of India (originally from North India). It is a narrative dance form characterized by fast footwork (tatkar), spins (chakkar) and innovative use of bhav in abhinaya
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Milonga
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an Argentinian and Uruguayan form of music, as dance, as the term for the place where tango is danced
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new tango
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a tango composed expressly for listening
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syncopation
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a rhythmic effect that provides an unexpected accent, often by temporarily unsettling the meter through a change in the established pattern of stressed and unstressed beats
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tango
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an Argentinian derived style of song and dance
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chant
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a musical setting of a sacred text, or a repertoire of such works
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dabtara
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Ethiopian church musicians who are also scribes and healers
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dbyangs
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a type of biphonic Tibetan chant characterized by sustained notes in a low register and audible harmonics
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Ge’ez
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The Ethiopian Christian liturgical language – in lower case it means the most important of 3 categories of mode in Ethiopian Christian ritual music
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Kebaro
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Ethiopian double-headed conical membranophone
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Liturgy
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the content of a religious ritual
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Melekket
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The motivational symbols in Ethiopian Christian chant, derived from Ge’ez language characters, each representing a short melody
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Mode
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a flexible term that can refer, depending on the context, to a musical system or a particular series of pitches. Examples: ge’ez, major mode, minor mode, tizita
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Rekrek
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the vocal slides characteristic of the ge’ez mode in Ethiopian Christian chant
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Sadhana
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A Tibetan Buddhist ritual meditation text
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sistra
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A sistrum is a musical instrument of the percussion family, chiefly associated with ancient Egypt
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Sunday school songs
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a repertory of Ethiopian Christian songs that emerged in the early 1990s with texts primarily in Amharic instead of Ge’ez
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Ululation
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A vocal sound of joy or celebration commonly produced by women in Africa and the middle east
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zema
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Ethiopian Christian chant; the music of the Ethiopian Christian liturgy
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harmony
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the collective sound of a series of chords, serving as a support to a melody. The term also refers to a set of rules that govern the progression of sound in Western Classical music
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homophonic texture
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A musical texture, as in the western hymn, where the parts perform different pitches but move in the same rhythm
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mbube
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a South African vocal genre popularized in recordings and spread internationally, featuring falsetto singing and Western style harmony
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Rasta subculture
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A religious movement from Jamaica whose adherents venerate the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie
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Reggae
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A style of urban Jamaican popular music that originated among the Rastafarians of Jamaica in the 1960s
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Riddim
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Insider term for the various marked rhythmic properties of reggae that convey, in coded form the subversiveness of the Rastafarian subculture and its associated soundscape
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