World Music - Final Exam

What is the specific area of Indonesia where Gamelan music is a popular style?

Where is this instrument from?

A Brazilian dance with wailing whistles and shouting! Uses agogo bells.

This type of instrument requires air to make the sound.

Portion of the raga that coincides with where the drums enter.

What Islamic branch is not regionally accepted?

Explored by Captain James Cook, this is the 50^th state in the United States of America.

This type of music from China uses nasal singing, face paint, and beautiful outfits.

Folk Music in Europe was NOT usually used for what function?

The first-hand study of music in its original context, a technique derived from anthropology.

George Harrison studied with this famous sitar player.

These are all chordophones of India, EXCEPT...

This is the Lao's most known instrument. It is a reed-free mouth organ with numerous pipes

India’s term for the popular music commonly circulated through Indian films.

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This is a free-reed mouth organ from Japan. 17 pipes are used to create tone clusters.

Iran is located in the Middle West.

What area of the world would you find Polka?

The Italian mandolin is what kind of -phone?

These are two sticks used to make rhythms in Son music from Cuba.

This country is considered to be in both Europe and Asia.

This is the first portion of a Raga. The soloist “explores” it!

Bob Marley is a superstar of what type of music?

Which of these drums is from Japan?

This is the set of islands where you can find Kiribati. It means "small islands".

This is a long metal trumpet blown during Tibetan ritual.

This is the main instrument in jingju opera?

A dance and associated music originating in Argentina. It takes two to....

Gamelan is never accompanied by dance.

The quality of a musical sound; nasal, dark, mellow, strained, etc.

What is Raqs Sharqi?

Which of these instruments is NOT used in Gagaku?

This is a Arabic music ensemble including zithers, bowed/plucked lutes, drums aerophones etc..

The Persian Santur is a...

What is a Dribu?

The origin of this musical instrument is from Portugal, but became a favorite among Hawaiians.

A Gamelan ensemble typically has the most of this type of -phone?

Lam singers created a new face-paced, popularized, brightly lit genre called….

The main Thai court ensemble. It requires 3 melodic instruments and 2 rhythmic instruments.

A tone’s specific frequency level, measured in Hertz (Hz).

Piphat is a style of music from Vietnam.

Where is the Nyckelharpa from?

A single line of music performed either by a soloist, or by an ensemble in unison.

How is a Santur traditionally played?

Javanese Gamelan must be built and tuned as a unit (Set).

This area of the world is known for polyrhythmic instrumental performance; usually drumming.

Sikuri Ensembles originate from....

The group in this picture are most likely from which country?

Mexico's folk music.

A technique used to maintain a continuous exhaled airflow in aerophone performance.

This style of music uses many idiophones made of metal. You hit them with hammers and mallets.

This country was known as Persia before the 20th century.

What is the name of "slit-drum" idiophone from Vietnam?

These started life as a 55 gallon oil drum and eventually became this musical instrument...

The word Fado from Portugal means "Fate"

What music can involve people dancing in a circle?

What is Adhan?

Juju is popular music from what area?

Where do the bagpipes originate from?

Scholars of music in culture. Main field devoted to World Music.

The Chinese Dizi is what kind of instrument?

A piece of music that has no regular pulse or pulsation...Hard to tap your foot to it.

A straight bar of wood, bamboo, or metal on the neck of a lute instrument; moveable on a sitar!

This place is often called the "Emerald Isle."

A pair of cup shaped cymbals from Thailand.

This instrument is native to Australia. It is an aerophone and can make sweet dubstep.

This is a Carnatic classical vocal devotional piece from South India.

This is the mood or sentiment associated with artistic activity, like raga performance.

Music plays a vital role in expressions of ethnic identity among many cultures.

The Opera "Aida" was written by what Italian composer?

Taiko drums can come in any size.

You do this dance sitting down if you are hanging out in Kiribati.

Nhac Tai Tu comes from what country?

The Kiribatian meetinghouse where communities would gather to sing the night before a battle.

These are instruments use a vibrating stretched membrane as the means of sound production.

The talking drum is from what area?

Where does Flamenco originate from?

Japan has many genres of music that are extremely similar to ones in the U.S.

The aboriginal spiritual belief system and concept of creation.

The roots of Klezmer can be traced to this country.

This is the pair of drums used in most Indian music.

This is the assumption that one's own culture is considered normal, while others are "exotic".

Every country in the world has adopted the European notation system.

What is the main branch of Islam?

This is the perspective of a cultural insider.

This is the music and dance tradition associated with the islands from the last question.

"I want to come back as a dog" would be appropriate lyrics from what style of music?

Gagaku is ...

This is the belief that all living things and natural phenomena have a spirit.

Music from Southeast Asia is considered free rhythm and is difficult to find a steady pulse.

Music is universal, but it is not necessarily a universal language.

The overall pattern or structure of a piece of music as it unfolds over time.

The film "Dr. Zhivago" (1965) used which Russian stringed instrument shaped like a triangle?

Pakistan’s most prominent music in the eyes of the rest of the world; Sufi devotional songs.

Originating in and characteristic of a particular country; native.

A set of pitches used in particular performances. Do, Re, Mi….

The average human voice has about a two octave....

Zulu solo singing called Mbube is from what area?

Nhac Tai Tu is commonly described as?

This is the music culture of North India. It is primarily instrumental.

The bodhran is a frame drum used in the folk music form this country.

Which of these styles of music comes from the country of Laos?