Music Quiz

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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

used in rites of Ethiopian churches

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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