Chapter 2 Vocabulary

2. Balinese music ensemble
4. music intended for a wide audience, often featuring prominent melodies
6. a particular type of music with a distinctive form or sound
7. jarocho four-stringed guitar that provides melody
8. Instruments that generate sound from electricity.
10. Performance practices, means, traditions, uses, and beliefs about music of a group of people, either from a specific time or place
12. Simple, solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken
14. 36 string harp that plays both melody and bass
15. Customs, beliefs, language, arts and institutions of a group of people that are learned and transmitted within the group
16. Instruments that create sound by striking, rubbing, or plucking a taut string (or chord).
17. Scholar who studies the music of different cultural groups
18. folk music; informal music that develops within and is strongly associated with a cultural group or region

1. Instruments that produce sound by striking or rubbing a skin or membrane stretched across a resonating air chamber.
3. Scholar who studies the physical and cultural characteristics and social customs of a group of people
5. Instruments that produce sound by a vibrating column of air
7. the most basic element of music the way beats are organized and subdivided
9. large 6-string guitar played in mariachi music
10. Style a form of expression within a musical genre
11. the distinct tonal quality of an instrument or voice; also known as tone color
13. a style of “art” music that stands apart from traditional and popular music