MUSIC 123 Quiz 2

Antiphonal Singing

two groups of field workers answer each other, each group singing in unison. used in Slovakia, Europe.

Homophony/paralle harmoney

two instruments play the same line of a melody in the same rhythm but one instrument plays one note and a second instrument places a note in harmony. used in Slovakia and Bulgaria.

Phi Phat

used in Thailand, it is court music, a type of extended musical entertainment for the royal court. instruments used are xylophones, a large gong, drums, small cymbals, and circles of tuned gongs.

Chordophone

A string instrument

Resonator

Amplifies the sound

Mariachi Music

Mexican Music, it is a folk based music in mexico

Zither

a musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sound box with numerous strings stretched across it. best known in southern Germany and Austria

Banjo

developed as a gradual westernization of the African prototypes, where it eventually made its way into American white folk culture.

Taquism/Taxism

free-metered improvisation in a certain musical mode, from Arab Isreal

Gagaku

from Japan, it is the imperial court music of japan and one of the oldest orchestral tradition. it uses idiophones, aerophones, membranophones, and chordophones. Court ensamble

Musical Bow

has one string on a wooden bow with a gourd resonator. from Burundi Central Africa

Gypsy

a member of a traveling people living by itinerant trade and fortune telling

High Life

Ghana, modern urban popular dance music that mixes traditional African and European-american musical styles and instruments

Hammered Dulcimer

ZIther-like instrument that are played with hammers, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lining Out

a different type of leader-chorus situation arose which arose from a 17th century Protestant desire for congregational singing without the use of a whole bunch of hymnals. used in USA

Harvest Song

a genre where it is of workers singing in fields as they do their work, harvesting. used in Slovakia and Bulgaria

Ketchak/Ramayana Monkey Chant

a kind of imitative music performed at night in a temple courtyard, musical theater. used in Indonesia.

Polyrythm

a rhythm that makes use of two or more different rhythms at the same time

Mandolin

a small sized lute and is common in southern mountain folk

Lyre

a stringed instrument like a small U shaped harp fixed to a crossbar.

Hocket Style

a style that uses interlocking notes, Central Africa

Call and Response

a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phase is heard as a direct commentary or response to the first. in places like South Africa and England

Sarangi

a thick rectangular looking fiddle with three gut melody strings and thirty or more metal sympathetic strings, in India

Jazz

a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century

Yodeling

a type of singing that's almost like yelling in different pitches, like from low chest pitch to high pitch. in places like Austria and central Africa

Fiddle

a type of violin that is played in folk songs, places like Africa. N. India, and Scotland

Sea Shanty

a typical European form of call and response singing as once used in work situations to help labors pull, hammer, pound, etc., in unison. used in England

Veena

an Indian stringed instrument that is played mostly in South India

Qin/Ch'in

an old and long ZIther, from China

Plattler

an old time Alpine dance music using accordion, guitar, cow bells, body slaps, and yodeling. Austria

Ud

is the Arabic-Turkish instrument from which the classical European Lute was developed and took its name in the middle ages. it has no frets and is played with a plectrum, from Arab Isreal.

Harp

its in various places in Europe, like Austria, Hungary, Ireland and even in Spain. it is an Chordophone instrument that consists or a triangular frame with strings that you pluck with your fingers

Koto

long zither, used in Japan

Griot

professional or semi-professional musicians who make money playing in market places or for anyone who can pay

Sympathetic Strings

strings that are not played directly but which ring along pitches played on the melody strings in India

Lute

the most popular and classical instrument of Europe in 16th century. it is played by plucking the strings with two or three fingers, basically it was the early guitar.