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Piphat
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a type of classical ensemble from thailand characterized by the use of melodic and rhythmic percussion and a double-reed aerophone
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Metallophone
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an idiophone consisting of several metal bars graduated in length to produce different pitches
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Khru
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a thai teacher; the term is linguistically associated with the word guru found in hinduism
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Wai Khru Ceremony
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a teacher honoring ceremony from thailand
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Ramayana
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an idian mythological epic about the hindu god rama found throughout south and southeast asia
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Isan
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a term referring to northeast thailand and its reginal culture, including music
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Lam Klawn
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Vocal repartee with khaen accompaniment from northeast thailand
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Lam Sing
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a popular music form from northeast thailand
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Luk Thung
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refers to the most popular form of a style of music found in Thailand. The term is short for pleng luk thung (เพลงลูกทุ่ง; lit. "song of a child of the fields"
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Khon
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a classical masked drama based on the thai version of the Ramayana
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Morlam/Mawlam
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a professional lam klawn singer from northeast thailand
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Ching
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a pair of cup-shaped cymbals from thailand
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Pi
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a double-reed aerophone found in the piphat classical ensemble of thailand
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Ranat Thum
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the supporting xylophone of classical ensembles from thailand
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Ranat Ek
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the lead xylophone of classical ensembles from thailand
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Khawng Wong Yai
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respectively, the higher and lower range gong circles found in classical ensembles from thailand
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Phin
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a fretted plucked lute from northeast thailand
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Khaen
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a bamboo mouth organ from northeast thailand
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Muy Thai
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a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques
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"Mae Jom Kalom"
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slippery women
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Nhac Tai Tu
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amateur chamber ensemble
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Song Lang
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a clapper idiophone from vietnam
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Dan Tranh
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a plucked zither from vietnam
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Dao Bandon
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a singer from thailand
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Gamelan
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an ensemble from indonesia comprised primarily of metallophones
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Cipher Notation
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Music notation or musical notation is any system which represents aurally perceived music, through the use of written symbols
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Colotomic Structure
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the organizational system of gamelan music from indonesia
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Slendro/Pelog
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is a pentatonic scale, one of the two most common scales (laras) used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog.
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Gamelan Gong Kebyar
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an ensemble type from bali, indonesia, comprised primarily of metallophones and characterized by rythmically dense performance technique
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Kecak
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a balinese theatrical performance of the Ramayana
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Walter Spies
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Russian-born German primitivist painter. In 1923 he came to Java, living first in Yogyakarta and then in Ubud, Bali starting in 1927. He is often credited with attracting the attention of Western cultural figures to Balinese culture and art
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Wayan Limbak
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an Indonesian dancer who worked with Walter Spies to create the Indonesian dance Kecak
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Wayang Kulit
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shadow puppet plays accompanied by gamelan common in java that often tell myths and stories like the ramayana
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Dalang
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the puppet master and story teller in wayang kulit
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Gong Ageng
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the largest gong of an indonesian gamelan ensemble
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Suling
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A suling or Seruling is an Indonesian flute made out of bamboo. It is used in gamelan ensembles
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Boning
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rack gong found in gamelan ensembles from indonesia
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Kempli
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The kempli is the time keeper marking the pulses in the pokok. It is a small horizontal gong mounted to absorb some vibration; it is about the size of those used in a bonang barung from Java.
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Kendang
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Gamelan Bali use two pair of drums (kendhang); the lower pitched female pair of drums is termed wadon and the higher pitched male pair of drums is termed lanang
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Micronesia
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a collection of islands in the northwestern pacific ocean. the term meaning "tiny islands" is derived from greek
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Polynesia
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a collection of islands in the eastern pacific ocean. the term is derived from the greek meaning "many islands"
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Melanesia
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THe islands in the southwestern part of the oceania
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Tok Pisin
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A creole of Indo-European, Malayo-Polynesian and Trans-New-Guinean languages (principally English and Kuanua); one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea
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Garamut
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a slit drum from Papua New Guinea
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Kundu
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an hourglass-shaped drum frum from papau new guinea
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Susap
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a mouth harp from papua new guinea
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Lemellophone
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a type of idiophone that uses vibrating lamellae or strips of material, usually metal, to produce sound
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Kilu
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a small drum from hawaii, usually made from a coconut shell with a fish skin face
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Hula Pahu
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hawaiian dance songs using drum accompaniment
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Pahu
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a single-headed cylindrical membranophone from hawaii that stands vertically on a carved footed base
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Mele
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Poetic texts used in hawaiian drum dance chant
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Portamento
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a smooth, uninterrupted glide from one pitch to another
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Vibrato
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wavering of tones
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Holo Mai Pele
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movie we watched
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Pele
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In the Hawaiian religion, Pele ( ) is the goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence. She is a popular figure in many stories of ancient Hawaii known as Hawaiian mythology.
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Hi'iaka
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daughter of Haumea and Kāne
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Lohi'au
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Chief of Kaua'i
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Antilles
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the islands of the caribbean, excluding the bahamas
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Mummer
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a type of street actor, usually in performances staged during the christmas season
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Vodou
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an animistic belief system found primarily in haiti
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Rara
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a form of festival music used for street processions, typically during Easter Week
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Loa
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the spirits of the Voodoo religion practiced in Haiti
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Shango
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an animistic belief system found primarily in trinidad
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Ogun
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a loa and orisha, who presides over fire, iron, hunting, politics and war. He is the patron of smiths and is usually displayed with his attributes: machete or sabre, rum and tobacco
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Legba
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Papa Legba is the intermediary between the loa and humanity. He stands at a spiritual crossroads and gives (or denies) permission to speak with the spirits of Guinee, and is believed to speak all human languages.
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Syncretism
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reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of beliefs as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous
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Calypso
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a popular music form from trinidad characterized by improvised lyrics on topical and broadly humorous subject matter
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Conga
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a tall, barrel-shaped, single-headed drum used often in latin american music
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Carnival
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a pre-lent festival celebrated primarily in europe and the caribbean. known as mardi gras in the united states
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Pan
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a musical instrument from trinidad made out of a steel oil drum
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Tamboo Bamboo
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a type of ensemble developed after drums were banned in trinidad, which used cane and bamboo tubes that were beaten with sticks and stamped on the ground
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Maracas
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a pair of small caribbean gourd rattles with interior beads
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Santeria
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a belief system combining animism and syncretized Roman Catholicism, found primarily in cuba and the united states
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Orus
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a rhythmic pattern associated with an orisha in the santeria religious tradition
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Reggae
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a popular music form from jamaica characterized by a rhythmic emphasis on the offbeat and by politically and socially conscious lyrics
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Dub/Dancehall
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recorded music that emphasizes the bass and rhythm tracks so that a dj can talk over the music through a microphone
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Yellowman "Zunga Zeng"
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a Jamaican reggae (rub-a-dub) and dancehall deejay, widely known as King Yellowman. He was popular in Jamaica in the 1980s, coming to prominence with a series of singles that established his reputation.
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Bob Marley
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some dude who played reggae
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Joe Higgs
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a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson.
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Jimmy Cliff
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Jamaican ska and reggae singer, musician and actor
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The Abyssinians
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a Jamaican roots reggae group, famous for their close harmonies and promotion of the Rastafari movement in their lyrics.
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Haile Selassie
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an ethiopian emperor considered by jamaican rastafarians to be a black incarceration of jesus christ
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Rastafarianism
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a religious cult centered in jamaica, which purports that the second coming of jesus christ has already occurred in the form of Haile Selassie, an ethiopian king
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Jah
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god
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Clave
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rhythm pattern in salsa music, also a pair of hand-held wooden bars used as percussion instruments in many african and latin american music tradtions
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Guaracha
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a latin american ballroom dance, as well as a song type smphasizing call-and-response vocal organization
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Celia Cruz
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a Cuban salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name.
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Polyrhythm
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a term meaning multiple rhythms; the organizational basis from most sub-saharan african music traditions
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Maraca/Shekere
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a gourd rattle from ghana with an external beaded netting
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Donno
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double headed hourglass shaped drum
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Palm Wine Guitar
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a popular music style from sub-saharan africa
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Highlife
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a generic term describing urban popular music traditions found throughout sub-saharan africa; or how i live my life
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Akan Drumming
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drumming by people inhabiting southern Ghana
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Pygmies
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a generic term applied to a diverse population of forest-dwellers in central africa
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The Forest People of Central Africa
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basically pygmies
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Herbie Hancock "Watermelon Man"
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a song with pygmy influence
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Madonna "Sanctuary"
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yet another song with pygmy influenced. she sampled from 'watermelon man'
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Balafon
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a xylophone from west africa often played by oral historians
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Mbalax
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popular music genre in senegal that combines praise singing and percussion with afro-cuban influences
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Jali/Griot
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The french term for a wandering ministrel, often used to descibe the west african jali
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Oral Tradition
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in ghana when the drums were outlawed they improvised with oral representations
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Birimintingo
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the instrumental solo sections of a jali performance from west africa
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Kumbengo
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the sung sections of a jali performance in west africa
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Yossou N’Dour
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brought mbalax to europe
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Emic
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describes the perspective from a cultural insider
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Etic
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describes the perspective from a cultural outsider
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Santur
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a hammered zither from the persian classical tradition. often cited as the origin of hammered zithers found throughout asia, northern africa, europe, and the western hemisphere
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Baglama
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a round-bodied lute from turkey
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Zurna
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a double-reed aerophone from turkey and greece
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Ki Mantle Hood
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American ethnomusicologist specializing in Indonesian Gamelan music
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Bimusicality
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method of learning about music by learning how to play the instrument being studied. created by Mantle Hood
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Alan Merriam
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ethnomusicologist who published The Anthropology of Music where defined ethnomusicology as 'the study of music in culture'
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Armchair Ethnomusicology
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when ethnomusicologists base their fieldwork on recordings made by others
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Indigenization
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to force local cultures to adopt another
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Labels: Classical, Folk, Popular
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terms most commonly used to categorize and distinguish among various types of music. they assert a hierarchical value system where classical is considered highest, folk much less than that, and popular as the lowest level
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Erik Von Hornbostel and Kurt Sachs
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ethnomusicologists that made a standard classification system for musical instruments
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Aerophone
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ethnomusicological classification referring to instruments tht require air to produce sound: namely,flutes, reeds, trumpets, and bellows-driven instruments
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Chordophone
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Ethnomusicological classification referring collectively to the four types of stringed instruments: lutes, zithers, harps, lyres
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Idiophone
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ethnomusicological classification encompassing instruments that themselves vibrate to produce sound, such as rattles, bells, and various other kinds of percussion
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Membranophone
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ethnomusicological classification referring to instruments such as drums that use a vibrating stretched membrane as the principle means of sound production
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Timbre
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the tone quality or color of a musical sound
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Medium
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the source of a sound, be it instrumental or vocal
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Organology
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the study of musical instruments
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Fret
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a bar or ridge found on the fingerboard of chordophones that enables performers to produce different melodic pitches with consistent frequency levels
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Phonic Structure
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the relationship between two diferent sounds in a given piece; this relationship can either be monophony or some sort of polyphony
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Texture
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phonic structure
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Monophony
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music witha single melodic line
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Polyphony
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the juxtaposition or overlapping of multiple lines of music; the three types of polyphony are homophony, independent polyphony, and heterophony
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Homophony
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multiple lines of music expressing the same musical idea
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Heterophony
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multiple performers playing simultaneous variations of the same line of music
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Independent Polyphony
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multiple lines of music expressing independent musical ideas as a cohesive whole
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Dynamics
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the volume of a musical sound
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Form
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underlying structure of a musical performance
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Pitch
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a tone's specific frequency level, measured in hertz
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Tuning System
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the pitches common to a musical tradition
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Ornamentation
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an embellishment or decoration of a melody
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Melody
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an organized succession of pitches forming a musical idea
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Melodic Contour
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the general direction and shape of a melody
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Drone
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a continuous sound
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Text Setting
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the rhythmic relationship of words to melody; can be syllabic or melismatic
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Melisma
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term for a text-setting style in which more then one pitch is sung per syllable
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Syllabic
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a text setting in which only one pitch is sung per syllable
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Rhythm
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the lengths, or durations, of sounds as patterns in time
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Beat
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a regular pulsation
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Accent
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an emphasized beat
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Tempo
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the relative rate of speed of a beat
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Rhythmic Density
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the quantity of notes between periodic accents or over a specific unit of time
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Meter
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a division of music beats into regular groupings
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Privilege
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accommodations give to the privileged certain groups in society. if you enjoy privilege you usually don't notice it
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Fieldwork
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first hand study of music in original context
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Semiotics
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the study of signs and systems of signs, including music
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Ethnocentrism
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the unconscious assumption that one's own cultural background is normal, while that of others is strange or exotic
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Folklore
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the study of orally transmitted folk knowledge and cultures
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Gerhard Kubik
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ethnomusicologist from Vienna who worked primarily in Africa
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Kwela
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dance music popular amongst South Africans; includes a whistle
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Frances Densmore
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ethnomusicologist who worked directly with Native American singers/instrumentalists and wrote books and articles
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John Blacking
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british anthropologist who defined music as 'humanly organized sound'
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