World Music Exam Listening

Front 1

CD 1 Trk 3
Sioux Grass Dance

Back 1

Piercing Falsetto

Vocables

Portamento

Front 2

CD 1 Trk 4
Zuni Lullaby

Back 2

Repetition

Front 3

CD 1 Trk 5
Iroquois Quiver Dance

Back 3

Call and response

Stomp Dance

Front 4

CD 1 Trk 12
Mother Earth
Sharon Burch

Back 4

New Navajo Music.....includes western elements with tradition.

Front 5

CD 1 Trk 14
Origins
Carlos Nakai

Back 5

Flute Revival

synthesizer

Front 6

CD 1 Trk 15
Agbekor

Back 6

Ewe people of Ghana

All instruments including double bell, a gourd rattle, and four single-headed drums

Call and response and Free Rhythmn

Front 7

CD 1 Trk 17
Mande Lambango

Back 7

Interpretation of Lambango.

Kora and konkong
Singing
free rhythmn...jalou

Front 8

Cd 1 Trk 19
Nhemamusasa (Shona)

Back 8

Llamellaphone....

steady beat

Front 9

CD 1 Trk 20
Nyarai
Thomas Mapfumo

Back 9

Popular style...linked to mbira

political

Front 10

CD 1 Trk 25
Rosie (Work Song)

Back 10

In a Prison...work song.....keep time.

Call and Response

Front 11

CD 1 Trk 26
Poor Boy Blues

Back 11

"thats right"
tough times in lyrics
blues scale

Front 12

Persia # 1
Chahar Mezrab in Mahour (excerpt)

Back 12

santur played....maybe setar

Front 13

Persia # 3
Radif of Nour (excerpt)

Back 13

preformed on tar

Front 14

CD 2 Trk 21
Bubaran Kembang Pacar

Back 14

Javanese Gamelang Loud Style
in pelog

started by bonang

Joined by two drums kendhang gendhing and ketipung

Front 15

CD Trk 23
Ladrang Wilujeng

Back 15

Performed at the beginning of ceremonies or rituals to ensure safety of the community and performers.

Intro on rebab, Soft gamelan
Contains singing

Front 16

CD 3 Trk 1
Playon Lasem Slendro Pathet Nem, Rendition 1

Back 16

Performed for Shadow puppetry wayang kulit in slendro.

Starts soft style, switches to loud.

Front 17

CD 3 Trk 9
Deve Niye Tunai (Devil With Fish-Shaped Eyes)

Back 17

Kriti form (principle song form of South Indian Classical music. Tambura drone in background.

Front 18

CD 3 Trk 10
Sarasiruha (To The Goddess Saraswati) Kriti In Natai Raga

Back 18

South Indian
plucked veena giving a constant drone, beating of the mridangam

Front 19

CD 4 TRk 19
Call to Prayer (Azan) Aleppo, Syria

Back 19

Call to prayer.

Musical but not music

Phrases become longer and more ornamented

nasal timbre called ghunna

Front 20

CD 4 Trk 20
The Horses

Back 20

Programmatic about omething

favors major and minor diatonic scales
emphasis on virtuosity over emotionality

uses 'ud

Front 21

CD 4 Trk 25
Ud Taqsim in Maqam Rast

Back 21

Arabic

Taqasim on 'Ud

Front 22

CD 4 Trk 26
Lamma Yo Albi (When, O Heart of Mine)

Back 22

Arabic

Vocal. Has fillers.

Front 23

Umm Khultum

Back 23

Female vocalists from Egypt (Arab World). Powerful voice.

Front 24

North India # 1
Tabla 1
02 Khandam - A Sequence of Five.mp3

Back 24

North Indian. Hindhustani

Drone with guy replicating the sound he is going to make on the tabla.

Front 25

North India # 3
Sarod
Abhisek Lahiri: Rag Desh

Back 25

Large Lute. Really bad ass sounding.

Front 26

North India #4
Sarod & Tabla
Ken Zuckerman & Vishnu Sahai: Bhairavi in 14 beats

Back 26

Sarod (fretless lute) and drum (tabla)

Front 27

CD 3 Trk 14
Jiangnan Sizhu

Back 27

Silk and bamboo instruments
amateur music

at a tea shop

duple meter and heterophonic

Front 28

CD 3 Trk 15
Huanle Ge (Song Of Happiness) Jiangnan Sizhu

Back 28

one of the primary 8 pieces of sizhu

Front 29

Erhu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmLxZkT6y8&feature=related

Back 29

beautiful with lots of sweet ornamentation. Piano accompaniment.

Front 30

Guzheng

Back 30

plucked zither

Front 31

Sanjo
Sanjo (haegŭm and changgo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAgxSaMdMg0&feature=related

Back 31

Sounds like high pitched singing....

Sanjo(solo) piece

Haegum- two stringed fiddle

Changgo- drum

Front 32

Court music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYLKjD5Pzc&feature=related

Back 32

Full ensemble

Aak music/ chonggak

Front 33

Salmunori
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDzct7OWkV8

Back 33

Drum ensemble

Front 34

Japan # 1
Tsuru no sugomori

Back 34

plucking and flute

shakukachi

Front 35

Japan # 2
Hakusen no

Back 35

Vocals

Shamisen

Front 36

Japan #4
Festival Drumming

Back 36

Taiko

Front 37

CD 2 Trk 10
Pasterska (Poland)

Back 37

Recorded in a festival in Podhale
Muzyka Podhala.

One Singer then joined in in a staggered style
Free rhythmn, unmetered voal

Front 38

CD 2 Trk 12
Ozwodna (Polish)

Back 38

Ozwodna: dance music....fast tempo
leader dancer calls for a particular tune

ostinato

Front 39

CD 2 Trk 14
Goralski Suite Part 2: Ozwodna (Poland)

Back 39

Ozwodna...
Single violin and accompanying violin and basy join in

Front 40

CD 2 Trk 16
Goralski Suite Part 4: Krzesana "Po Dwa" (Poland)

Back 40

Basy starts...."po dwa" "in two" change chords every two beats.

Front 41

Romania
Fluier

Back 41

Fast pipping on a fluier....some level of ostinato

Front 42

Romania Caval 1

Back 42

uses humming technique. shaky timbre and lower pitch from lowering of the lip

Front 43

Romania Caval 2

Back 43

8 beat phrases...humming style but not a lower the lip style because it is clearer and deeper

Front 44

CD 4 Trk 9
Kuturimunapaq (So That We Can Return) Bolivian Kantu

Back 44

Wankaras,ch'inisku...zamponas. Music for the Kallaway poeple.

Bolivian Kantu ensemble

Front 45

CD 4 Trk 10
Muyu Muyari Warmigu (Please Return, Dear Woman)

Back 45

Inbabura harp (golpe) Ecuador

Front 46

CD Trk 11
Iluman Tiyu (Man of Iluman) Ecuadorian Sanjuan

Back 46

Sanjuan of Ecuador, ceremonial chant; violin; kena; vocalist

Front 47

CD Trk 13
Amor Imposible (Impossible Love) Peruvian wayno

Back 47

Peruvian wayno, harp, vocal and golpe

wayno:
1. andean bimodality, use of minor and its relative major

Front 48

CD 2 Trk18
Krzesany Po Dwa
Twinkle Brothers

Back 48

Reggae polish mix
Po dwa (in two)
basy, violins, bass guitar, piano, guitar change chords

Front 49

CD 2 Trk 19
Kurdzhaliiska Ruchenica

Back 49

Bulgarian.
Wedding Dances
asymetrical/additive meters
Romanian and Turkish mixture "Balkan jazz"

Front 50

CD 3 Trk 5
Begadang II
Rhoma Irama

Back 50

Dangdut style (Indonesian and Wester styles with Indian influence)

King of dangdut

Front 51

CD 3 Trk6
"Sufflendang-Shufflending"

Back 51

Sundanese Ethno-jazz fusion
Tune western instruments to pelog/slendro scales

Combines jazz and sundanese gamelan

Front 52

CD 3 Trk7
"Distori/Distortion"

Back 52

Indonesian Rock

Alternative rock band...politcal

Front 53

Black board 1
"Tomorrow never dies"

Back 53

Beatles!!

tambura.... Homage because learned to play and incoporate

Front 54

Blackboard 2 "Watermelon Man"
Herbie Hancock

Back 54

imitation of Ba-Benzele flute from Central African Republic
played on a beer bottle

Front 55

Blackboard 3 "El Condor Pasa" Simon and Garfunkel

Back 55

English lyrics over Los Inca's track.

appropriation