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Main African instruments

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  • Kora (Big dried vegetable, Harp-like)
  • Xylophone / Balafon
  • Talking Drum
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Main Arab instruments

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  • Rabab (Bow stringed instrument)
  • Ūd (Like a Loot)
  • Nãy
  • Qanun
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Main Indian Instruments

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  • Sitar
  • Sarangi
  • Tabla
  • Tambura
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Main Indonesian Instruments

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  • Kendang
  • Bonang
  • Gong
  • Saron
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Main Chinese Instruments

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  • Qin / Gu Zheng
  • Dizi (Bamboo Flutes)
  • Er Hu
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Main Japanese Instruments

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  • Shakuhachi (Single Bamboo Flute)
  • Koto (Gu-Zheng Like)
  • Shō (Bamboo Flutes)
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Main Latin American Instruments

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  • Charangi
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African: Rhythm and texture

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  • Cross Rhythm
  • polyrhythm
  • Syncopated
  • atonal
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African music features

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  • syncopation
  • polythrythm
  • ostinato
  • call and response
  • homo and mono vocal textures
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most important feature
of african music

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rhythm

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Key features of Arab Music

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  • heterophonic
  • call and response
  • improvisation
  • drone
  • no major or minor or predictable chord sequence
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Layers in indian Music

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  1. Melody
  2. Rhythm
  3. Drone
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Drone in indian music

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provided by a stringed instrument called the Tambura, it sums the ‘tonic and ‘dominant’ note of the chosen scale throughout the piece

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Melody in Indian Music

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  • Sitar
  • Sarangi
  • Harmonium
  • Bamboo Flute
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Raga (Indian)

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Indian musicians base their melodies on scales called ‘raga’.
There are lots of different scales, with different number of notes, and sometimes they are different
in their ascending and descending forms
Each raga has a specific mood, event or time of day attached.

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Structure of a Raga

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Alap, Jhor, Jhalla

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Rhythm in Indian

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Tabla (2 drums, metal circle in middle)
Plays Tala - repeating rhythm cycle, first note of
Tala is Sam (emphasized). Khali (unemphasized
notes)

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No tabla =

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What is common in Indian music

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Glissando between notes, common

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Alap

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  • Invocation
  • Slow, Free tempo
  • Improvisatory
  • Instruments heard: melodic instrument and drone
  • No drums
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Jhor

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  • Strict tempo
  • Gat melody
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Jhalla

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  • Speeds Up
  • tabla plays
  • Fast improvisation on the Gat
  • Busy
  • Polar opposite of Alap
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Main Features of Gamelan
- Music made up of layers and layers of different instrument - heterophonic - slendro: pentatonic scale - pelog: heptatonic - frequent change in tempo and dynamics
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Features of Chinese
❖ Pentatonic scale ❖ Monophonic / Heterophonic ❖ Tonality in the words means that the melody and directional passages are given more importance ❖ Heavy ornamentation ❖ Significant use of percussion instruments - Pitch Bending
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Features of Japanese
- Often has a vocal part, nature of instrument is usually reflected in the title - More emotional - No Chordal Harmony - Both Chinese and Japanese are Pentatonic, Programmatic - Melodic parts seem to start at different times, only coming together at cadences - “Through-Composed”, no repeated ideas, keep adding on new ideas
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Features of Mariachi Music
- Syncopation - Melodies played in thirds, by trumpet or violin - Verses sung solo, chorus sung by everyone - Lively, quick tempo - Simple, mainly primary chords - Repeated melodic phrases
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Instruments in Mariachi
- Guitar - Violin - Trumpet - Small percussion instruments - Vihuela, string instrument that plays off beat
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Features of Tango (Argentina
● Variations of habanera ● Melody line often contains chromatic twists ● Syncopated dotted rhythm Variations of habanera ● Frequent use of accented notes ● Use of glissando ● intense, dramatic, melancholic ● 2/4 or 4/4 ● Texture often featuring a solo melodic instrument with chordal accompaniment (homophonic
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Tango Instruments
● Piano ● String bass ● Violin ● Bandoneon ● Cello ● Guitar
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Samba Features
➔ Rhythmic repetition (ostinato) ➔ Fast tempo ➔ Syncopation ➔ Polyrhythm ➔ Call and Response
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Samba Instruments
- surdo - apito - tamborim - snare drums - agogo - Pandeiro - reco reco
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Choro Instruments
Cavaquinho Bandolim Pandeiro
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Choro Features
Harmony: triads, relative minor, modulation Structure: ABA, ABACA Tempo: ¾, 2/2, 4/4 Improvisation Countermelody and counterpoint
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Panpipes features
● 6/8 alternating with ¾ time signatures - hemiola effect. ● Conventional chords - mostly primary ● Syncopated rhythms ● Regular phrase lengths ● Major/minor tonalities ● Melodies sometimes shared between two instruments (each takes alternating notes, or groups of notes) - this technique is known as hocketing.
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Panpipes Instruments
Charango

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