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Raga

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A pattern of notes having characteristic intervals, rhythms in the Indian culture

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Range

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The lowest to the highest pitch that can be sung or played

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Hagerei

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Ethiopian ballad “My Homeland”

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Guitarron

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A Mexican 6-stringed acoustic bass instrument

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Mbube

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Means Lion, coming from the Lion Sleeps Tonight.

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Sargam

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Type of Hindu music scale that uses tone fluctuations instead of words.

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Vihuela

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Spanish stringed instrument

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Ceilidh

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Event where Scottish/Irish folk music is played, along with dancing and storytelling.

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Pibroch

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Classical music for the Scottish bagpipes

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Doubling

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Where two or more instruments are playing the exact same notes simultaneously.

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Intensity

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Power of sound per unit area

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Aerophone

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A wind instrument

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Organology

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The science of musical instruments and their classification.

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Chordophone

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A stringed instrument

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Idiophone

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A whole instrument that produces sound (bell, gong, etc)

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Electrophone

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A musical instrument that makes sound by way of electricity

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Membranophone

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Sounds made by vibrating stretched membranes (drums)

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Sach-Hornbostel System

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A system of musical instrument classification that envelops aerophones, idiophones, electrophones, chorophones, and membranophones.

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Botonaduras

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To repeat in the same pitch

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Heterophony

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Two voices, same melody, but ornamenting differently

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Ballad

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A song that tells a story in Strophic form

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Mridangam

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Double-headed drum used in Southern India music

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Balinese Gamelan

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A percussion ensemble that plays idiophones, instruments that are struck when played

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Carnatak

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Consists of a flute, violin, and a Mridungam. A classification of southern Indian music

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Scale
Notes with equal increments
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Pentatonic scale
A musical scale with five notes per octave
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Tabla
Small hand drums that are struck using the heel of the hand
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Sarod
A four-stringed lute used in Indian music as a drone accompaniment
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Ornamentation
Musical embellishments (i.e. vibrato)
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Solfege
Do Re Me Fa So La Ti
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Trills
Very fast vibratos surrounding a particular note
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Rafa Nilambari
Indian lullabye, using patterns of intervals and rhythms
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Fado
Portuguese ballad about fate
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Quinceanera
Mexican celebration of a girl's 15th birthday.
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Amelia Rodriguez
Portuguese singer
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Mariachi
Mexican folk music played by a small group of musicians dressed in native costumes
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Diaspora
Where people gather from different countries (I.e. Chinatown)
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Folk Music
Music that originates in traditional pop cultures
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Charro
A Mexican cowboy
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Scottish Highland Bagpipe
A bagpipe native to Scotland
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Melody
Primary leading note in a song
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Piob Mhur
A great Highland bagpipe
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Biphony
Drone and melody played together (throat singing, Armenian flutes, bagpipes, etc.)
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Canntaireachd
Imitating the ornaments of the bagpipes with the mouth
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Polyphony
More than one melody
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Professor Nketia
An African drummer who used to teach at UCLA
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Steel drums
Grooved oil-drums used for music. Originated in the Caribbean.
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Homophony
One melody and one harmony
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Disjunct melody
A scale with large intervals
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Drone
Bass note held throughout a passage of music
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Conjunct melody
The difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale
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Duduk
Large Armenian woodwind instrument
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Uilleann pipes
Type of Bagpipe
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Durme durme
Means "Sleep." Comes from a Ladino lullabye
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Blowpipe
Mouth-blown bagpipes that are the easiest to play
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Chanter
The flute portion of the bagpipe used to make different notes
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Beat
The pulse of a song
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Harmony
Notes that mesh well together
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Monophony
One melody
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Falsetto
A method to sing higher than singers normal range
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Music
Vocal or instrumental sounds
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Nasal tone
Sound characterized with a nasal quality to it
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Pitch
Frequency-related scale of higher and lower notes
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Straight tone
No variation of a particular note. Opposite of vibrato
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Katajjaq
Back and forth throat singing. From the Inuit culture
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Vibrato
Small variations of a particular note
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Tuva
Society in Southern Siberia
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Jay Ganesh
Lord of Good Fortune. Performed at the end of a Puja worship service. Comes from the Hindustani tradition
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Bollywood
Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai (Bombay)
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Chaturthi Festival
National holiday in India celebrating the separation from Britain. A celebration in honor of the god Ganesh, the elephant-headed, remover of obstacles.
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Guru
Spiritual teacher in Buddhism and Hinduism
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Polyrhythm
More than one rhythm on top of each other
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Puja
An Indian worship service
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Atumpan
Talking drum in the Akan Native to sound warnings, or teach poetry
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Igil
Two-stringed musical instrument out of Western Mongolia. Accompanied Tuvan throat singers.
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Musical ethnography
Written representation of a music culture
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Khoomii
Tuvan throat-singing
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Ethnomusicology
The study of music in different cultures.
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Acoustics
How a sound fills a room/building
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Timbre
A distinctive sound or overtone from an instrument
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Agbadza
An African piece played at a funeral by the Dzodzemidozi Funeral Association
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Homowo
Ghana festival with dancing. Rattles, bells, and drums
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Fontomfrom
Ghana dance. Music with loud drums
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Highlife in Ghana
Popular music of Ghana
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Refrain
Chorus of a song
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Fundamental tone
The tone that represents the frequency of an object, like a string or bell
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Strophic
Different words to the same tune (hymns)
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Frequency
Vibration dependent upon pitch
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Soundscape
Sounds heard in a particular location
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Tala
A rhythmic pattern in classical Indian music
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Sitar
Indian guitar

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