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- 1. ___________, or North Indian Classical Music, is one of the most complex musical traditions in the world
- 5. In Indian music, a scale or melody type; there are hundreds of these in use
- 6. Đờn ca _________ or “music of talented amateurs” is a Vietnamese chamber music that includes đàn kim (lute), đàn tranh (zither), đàn cò (fiddle), guitar and song lang (wood block).
- 11. Nusrat Fateh Ali ______: Pakistani singer, considered one of the greatest performers of qawwali
- 12. Bela _______: Hungarian pianist, teacher, ethnomusicologist, and composer who was one of the first to study folk song using modern methods like field recordings; his research deeply influenced his compositions
- 16. Sri ______: South Indian poet, composer and musician who is regarded as the most important Karnatic composer
- 18. _______ pipes: Irish bellows-driven aerophone featuring a chanter pipe, three drone pipes and regulator pipes with keys that play chords. It has a softer, more mellow sound than its Scottish counterpart.
- 22. Log xylophone formerly played in the royal court of the king of Buganda. It is played on both sides of the instrument with triple interlocking patterns, creating a dense texture
- 23. Vasily Vasilyevich ________: Russian balalaika player, conductor, composer and writer, who in 1887 founded an orchestra of folk instruments to promote the balalaika and dombra as symbols of Russian identity
- 24. ______ dza vadzimu: African lamellophone consisting of metal tongues attached to a resonator box; among the Shona of Zimbabwe, it is used during religious ceremonies for ancestral spirits
- 26. Hungarian chordophone that features a crank to turn the wheel that goes the strings, a drone, wooden keys that change the pitch and a distinctive buzzing timbre
- 27. Double-headed drum used in Karnatic classical music
- 29. In Indonesia, a large ensemble of metallophones associated with the royal courts of Java and Bali. It features several types of gongs, gendér, rebab (fiddle), singers, drums, flute, and zither, and a complex heterophonic texture
- 34. A capella choral group founded in 1964 by Joseph Shabala who came to international prominence as a result of their collaboration with Paul Simon on his Graceland album in 1987
- 36. A sustained sound, such as produced by the drone pipes of bagpipes or the drone strings of a hurdy-gurdy
- 37. Song form in which multiple verses are set to the same music
- 38. A _____ or griot is a west African wandering minstrel, oral historian and praise singer, who accompanies himself on a chordophone called a kora
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- 2. A fretless plucked chordophone that plays the drone in Indian classical music
- 3. 14-key metallophone which is the main melody instrument in a gamelan ensemble
- 4. A cappella choral music performed primarily by Zulu men in South Africa
- 7. A type of performance in which the music is created as it is being performed
- 8. Fretted, plucked chordophone with a triangular body and three strings, a small soundhole, and a long neck; considered a symbol of Russian identity
- 9. Sufi devotional song featuring melismatic male vocals, harmonium and drums (dholak or table), considered a national music of Pakistan .The main singer improvises while the chorus responds with a refrain (repeating both music and text)
- 10. _________ pipes: lung-driven aerophone consisting of three drone pipes and a melodic (chanter) pipe, considered a symbol of Scottish identity
- 13. The rhythmic cycle in Indian music, kept by both the drummer and the audience
- 14. Pair of hand drums used in India and Pakistan. The larger drum produces a distinctive “boing” sound
- 15. A practice in which a solo alternates with a chorus or ensemble; it is a feature of West African musics
- 17. Nigerian popular music which combines Yoruba traditional elements, including gangan talking drums and polyrhythms, with foreign popular music elements such as electric instruments and Afro-Caribbean percussions and rhythms
- 19. Gong ____: large hanging gong in a gamelan ensemble; it marks the end of each cycle of the colotomic structure
- 20. Sitar master player, composer and teacher who popularized the sitar worldwide and influenced both popular and art Western music
- 21. Lam ______: Thai folk song genre from Isan region featuring khaen (bamboo aerophone) accompanying vocal improvisation
- 25. Text setting in which one note is sung per every syllable of text
- 28. Text setting in which a long melodic passage is sung to a single syllable of text
- 30. A song and dance tradition that developed among the Romani people in Andalucía, considered a national symbol of Spain
- 31. A fretted plucked chordophone with sympathetic strings, used to play the melody in Hindustani raga
- 32. Phleng _________: Thai popular music genre featuring a mix of modern electric instruments like synthesizers and drum set and traditional instruments like saw bip (fiddle), phin (lute), khaen
- 33. King Sunny _____: Nigerian guitarist, singer and bandleader who has been performing jùjú since the 1960s; he was one of the first African artists to achieve global success
- 35. _________ is a Thai classical ensemble including Pi nai (quadruple reed aerophone), ching (small hand cymbals), ranat ek (xylophone) and drums