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32 Cards in this Set
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Song Lang
(South East Asia) |
a clapper idiophone from Vietnam.
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Tai Thu
(South East Asia) |
a type of chamber music ensemble from Vietnam.
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Metallophone
(South East Asia) |
an idiophone consisting of several metal bars graduated in length to produce different pitches.
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Piphat
(South East Asia) |
a type of classical ensemble from Thailand characterized by the use of melodic and rhythmic percussion and double-reed aerophone.
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PI
(South East Asia) |
a double-reed aerophone found in piphat classical ensemble of Thailand.
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Ching
(South East Asia) |
a pair of cup-shaped cymbals from Thailand.
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Khru
(South East Asia) |
a Thai teacher; the term is linquistically associated With the word guru found in Hinduism.
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Ramayana
(South East Asia) |
an Indian mythological epic about the Hindu godRama found throughout South and Southeast Asia.
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Khon
(South East Asia) |
a classical masked drama based on the Thai version of the Ramayana.
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Isan
(South East Asia) |
a term referring to Northeast Thailand and its regional culture, including music.
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Khaen
(South East Asia) |
a bamboo free reed mouth organ from Northeast Thailand and Laos.
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Lam Klawn
(South East Asia) |
vocal repartee with khaen accompaniment from Northeast Thailand.
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Lam Sing
(South East Asia) |
a popular music form from Northeast Thailand.
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Phin
(South East Asia) |
a fretted, plucked lute from Northeast Thailand.
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Gamelan
(South East Asia) |
an ensemble from Indonesia comprised primarily of metallophones.
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Gamelan Gong Kebyar
(South East Asia) |
an ensemble type from Bali, Indonesia comprised primarily of metallophones and characterized by rhythmically dense performance technique.
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Kecak
(South East Asia) |
a Balinese theatrical performance of Ramayana.
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Ideograph
(East Asia) |
the Chinese unit of writing, a written symbol or character that is associated primarily with meaning rather than sound.
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Dynasty
(East Asia) |
a rulling family, like the Ming, and the era characterized by that family’s dominance.
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Cultural Revolution
(East Asia) |
a ten-year period in China’s history, from 1966-1976, marked by severe social and political unheaval.
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Bayin
(East Asia) |
the Chinese organological system.
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Sizhu
(East Asia) |
a “silk and bamboo” music ensemble comprised of Chinese stringed (“silk”) instruments and flutes
(“bamboo”). |
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Qin/ Guqin
(East Asia) |
a bridgeless, plucked zither.
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Tablature
(East Asia) |
notation that indicates how to pluck, stop, or touch each string.
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Yang Ban XI
(East Asia) |
literally, “model revolutionary Bejing Opera,” the Chinese term for Beijing Operas, which were
infused with communist and nationalist political messages during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1876). |
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Overton
(East Asia) |
one of the ascending group of tones that form the harmonic series derived from the fundamental pitch.
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Khoomei
(East Asia) |
throat-singing tradition from Mongolia.
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P’ Ansori
(East Asia) |
Korean narratice vocal performance style, featuring Epic-length stories.
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Sankyoku
(East Asia) |
a Japanese chamber ensemble, consiting of voice,koto (zither), shakuhachi (flute), and shamisen
(lute). |
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Gagaku
(East Asia) |
a Confucian derived ritual court ensemble from Japan, literally “elegant music.”
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Kabuki
(East Asia) |
popular music theater from developed by Japan’s middle class in the eighteenth century.
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Dung-Chen
(East Asia) |
a long trumpet with low tones blown during Tibetan ritual.
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