Non Western Music: Midterm Review3Of3

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the holy book of Islam

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Qur'an

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sung melodies with many notes to a syllable

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Melisma

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scales in which intervals lie almost exactly in the middle between the tones on a Western piano

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Quater tone

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the scattering of Jews from their ancestral homeland in Palestine

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Diaspora

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women who dance for entertainment

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Ghawazi

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chanting of the qur'an verses

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Tilawah

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call to prayer

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Adhan

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singers of the adhan

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Mu'adhdhin

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the Sufi ceremony; a rhythmic cycle

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Dhikr

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Sufi dancer who whirls around and around to achieve the spiritual union

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Dervish

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a fretless pear-shaped lute with 5 or 6 courses

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Ud

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a ululation (high cry rapidly trilled with the tounge)

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Zhagharit

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a difficult technique where the player blows out while simultaneously breathing in through his nose in order to acheive an uninterupted air stream

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Circular breathing

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a long neck fretted lute with a tear-drop-shaped body and 3 or 4 strings

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Saz

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a classical plucked lute with an hourglass-shaped sound body covered in sheepskin

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Tar

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also called the spike fiddle; a bowed chordophone with a spike at the bottom and 1 to 4 strings

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Rabab

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a short necked fiddle usually with a fingerboard and a pear-shaped body

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Kamanche

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trapezoidal hammered dulcimer(zither)

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Santur

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a plucked zither shaped like a rectangle with one corner cut off

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Qanun

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an end-blown notch flute played from the side of the mouth

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Nay

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a loud conical-bore double reed with a bell flare at the end

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Zurna

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a single-reed aerophone with 2 cylindrical pipes tied together and blown at the same time

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Arghul

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a shallow frame drum played with hands and fingers

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Daff

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a goblet shaped drum that comes in various sizes, is played with the fingers and is open at the bottom

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Darbukkah

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different parts of modes put together to make a new scale

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Maqam

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a shallow frame drum (daff) with cymbals

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Riqq

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scales from smaller segments which are usually tetrachords but may also be tri and pentachords

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Jins

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a journey through a sequence of emphasized pitches, the principal tones of the maqam scale

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Taqsim

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a vocal form that uses melismas on the syllables with 1 or more instrumentalist following the singers improvisations

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Layali

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a characteristic rhythmic pattern; complex meter

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Iqa

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a series of songs and instrumental pieces unified by their refrence to a single maqam

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Suite

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transcendent emotional experience that comes from the combination of highly expressive music and poetry

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Tarab

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an ensemble that consist of about 5 musicians; the most traditional medium for the Arabic suite

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Takht

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a partly improvised song that usually follows a layali

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Mawwal

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a song that sets a poem in classical Arabic language

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Qasida

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an instrumental piece with a refrain that begins in a 10 beat iqa and moves to a triple meter then back to a 10 beat pattern

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Sama'i

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an instrumental piece where various instruments take turns playing improv solos

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Tahmilah

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socially concious music that began in Egypt

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Sha'bi

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modern pop music that is somewhat similar to its western counterpart

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Al-jil

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a genre of songs that has explicitly Islamic lyrics

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Nashid

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the base of classical Iranian improvisation and has a characteristic heterophonic scale

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Dastgah

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short related melodies

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Gusheh

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the entire corpus of gusheh

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Radif

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an introductory piece for ensemble in duple or triple meter

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Pishdaramad

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a composed song in a fixed meter accompanied by a soloist or ensemble

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Tasnif

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ensemble music in a dance rhythm

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Reng

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musicians that perform light classical, dance and traditional entertainment music

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Motreb

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a popular datsgah with a characteristic optomistic mood

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Mahar

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the final tone or tonic of mahar

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Ist

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a hereditary caste of professional musicians

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Levites

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a rams horn trumpet still used as a ritual instrument in Jewish ceremonies

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Shofar

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a standard method of chanting Biblical texts

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Cantillation

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signs to indicate Jewish cantillation formulas

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Ta'amim

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non-pulsatile songs based on certain scales and collections of melodic movements; sung prayers

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Hazzanut

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complex modes of Ashkenazi cantoral traditions that include characteristic motives

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Shteygers

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an Eastern Europe tradition that the Klezmer bands sometimes accompanied

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Parlando rubato

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one of the most popular genres among the Jews of Sephardic tradtion; ballad type folk songs

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