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Question 1

Sygyt Khoomii

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Throat singing with high fundamental and clear overtones

Question 2

Kargyraa Khoomii

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Throat singing with low fundamental

Question 3

Ethnomusicologists

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Music-documenting scholars. Study of music + anthropology

Question 4

Carillon

Answer 4

Bell collection

Question 5

Acoustics

Answer 5

Study of sound

Question 6

Harmonics

Answer 6

Partials. Series of tones above fundamental. Strength of tones gives timbre

Question 7

David Hyke

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Creepily involved guy in throat singing that declared it as international religious singing… miserere nobis Domine!

Question 8

Duduk

Answer 8

Armenian wind instrument (circular breathing)

Question 9

Organology

Answer 9

Study of instruments

Question 10

Idiophones

Answer 10

Self-sounding (bells, gongs, rattles, ect)

Question 11

Chordophones

Answer 11

One or more strings vibrate

Question 12

Lute

Answer 12

Chordophone = neck + body + parallel strings

Question 13

Harp

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Chordophone = soundboard at angle to which strings are attached

Question 14

Lyre

Answer 14

Chordophone = two bars extending up with crossbar to hold strings

Question 15

Zither

Answer 15

Chordophone = lat body, strings attached parallel to body

Question 16

Aerophone

Answer 16

Column of air vibrates (Open end [single/double reed] / free reeds, enclosed reeds, free)

Question 17

Membranophone

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Head with membrane. Classefied by shape: cylindrical, bowl, hourglass, goblet; by head attachment: glued, tacked, laced; and by sounding device: hand, stick.

Question 18

Electrophone

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Sounded by or amplified by electric, can have overlap to other classes

Question 19

Mode

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General pitch organization of tradition or scale

Question 20

Cents

Answer 20

Octave = 1200, HS = 100

Question 21

Conjunct Melodies

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In close regular intervals

Question 22

Disjunct Melodies

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Large interval leaps

Question 23

Monophony

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Single melody

Question 24

Biphony

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Melody with drone

Question 25

Polyphony

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Several independent melodies

Question 26

Heterophony

Answer 26

Same melody but different accents or ornamentation

Question 27

Homonphony

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Melody and harmony but in same rhythm

Question 28

Atumpan

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Talking drums from Ghana. Golet-drums, wire attached, bamboo frame, made in pairs.

Question 29

Accra, Ghana

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Highlife music, Atumpan

Question 30

Mumbai, India

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Capital since English independence, previously Bombay. Hindu/Muslim. Bollywood. high-slum living. 7-ilse city originally. Marathi + English

Question 31

Highlife Music

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Made in 1920 Accre

Question 32

Bollywood

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1920-1930 silent films + onwards. Dual-stars: actors + studio musicians

Question 33

Ghazal

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Art song (strophic) for elite North India audience. Bowed lute (sarengl), tabla (pair of drums), harmonium

Question 34

gamesh

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Hindu god... miserere nobis Domine!

Question 35

Boston, USA

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Becan hill, Harvard University, piano row, Symphony Hall, Jorday Hall, Wang Center

Question 36

The Boston Globe

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Boston newspaper with music events

Question 37

Buskers

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Boston street musicians

Question 38

Boston Peruvian Music

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Played outside entrance to Havard Coop. 2 sikus (panpipes, bamboo aerophones), bomba (2-headed LRG drum), snare, idiophones

Question 39

Fado

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Porteguese nostalgic song longing for left behind country

Question 40

Amalia Rodrigues

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Famous for Fados

Question 41

Gamelan

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Idonesian instrumental groups. Wood + bamboo instruments, 1-2 drums, flutes, bowed lute (rebab), Gongs, bronze xylophone, circular breathing

Question 42

Beating tone

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Slightly out of tune pitches played at the same time, found in Gamelan music.

Question 43

Polos and Sangsih

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Interlocking Gamelan parts

Question 44

Canerata

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Small ensemble that combines styles and instruments according to pieces time / place

Question 45

Coladeira

Answer 45

Fast Cape Verdean dance

Question 46

Cavaguinho

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High Cape Verdean Chordonphone

Question 47

Viols

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Early classical instrument