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Elements of Central Asian Music
- Buddhist influence
- mountainous influences
- low-pitch singing
- throat singing
- multiphonic
- overtones
throat singing
- sound from the back of the throat
- low pitch
- multiphonic
- overtone
- ties to the Buddhist/simple culture
overtone
low pitch and a high pitch resonating above
Buddhist ritual music
- one note/long time
- chants
- bright/dark timbre (overtone)
- tone color melody
- structure: unfolds over a long period, percussion
tone color melody
melody starts on one note, only quality (dark/bright) changes
mandala
- basically a ragamala
- images that depict various musical modes (ragas)
- shows moods/emotions of music
puja
hour-long Buddhist ritual
rul-no cymbals
controls a puja music time demension
dung-chen trumpet
lower/darker timbre
brdung
- series of accelerating strikes on the cymbals
- builds tension
kungling trumpet
higher timbre
how to describe a puja
- disorienting
- singing is non pulsatile
- instrumentation is pulsatile
- nonimprovised
- only participate if you are part of the ritual
morin khuur
- guitar like
- ancient
- 2 strings
Tibetan music
- Buddhist, spiritual, ritual
- folk songs (often horse influences)
- Dranyen
- costumes
dranyen
- Tibetan lute
- 3 courses, 6 strings
Dranyen Shapdro
- Tibetan
- marching into funning feel
- change of tempo
- building tension
- sounds like horses trotting then galloping
Mongolia
- Ghengis Khan
- long song: epic in scope, more serious, nomadic
- short song: lighter
Hoyor Bor
- long song about horses
- morin khuur
- urtyn duu singer (shigshill)
- hoomi singer (throat singing)
- mostly nonpulsatile rhythm
- whistling hoomi melody
long song
more serious, epic in scope, nomdaic
short song
lighter
shigshill
ornamented melody using vibrato (rapidly fluctuating pitch)
hoomi singer
- throat singing
- whistling pitch
- drone pitch
Indian classical music
- religious/spiritual/meditative
- improvisation
- drums
- solo instrumentals
- drones
- chord
- nonparticipatory
karnatic (kriti) music
- classical indian music
- primarily vocals
- ragas: scales
- talas: time cycles
- improvisation
- highly expressive/moods/emotions
raga
- similar to mode(s)
- associations with nonmusical ideas (love, night, heroic)
- specific mood/emotion
- poetic ish
- has a set of rules
tala
- rhythmic framework/timekeeping
- similar to the clave
tabla
- drums governed by the tala
ragamala
- painting/tapestry
- depicts certain scenes that illustrate the mood of a raga
tonic
homebase pitch
motive/motif
short repeating pattern/idea
alap
nonpulsatile section that begins a raga
tanpura
- indian chordophone
- strums scale tones, drone pitches
sarod
- indian chordophone
- more expressive than the tanpura
saval-jarab
- faster tempo in raga khamaj
- call and response between meldoic soloist and drummer
saval-jarab
- faster tempo in raga khamaj
- call and response between melodic soloist and drummer
raga khamaj
- improvisation
- alap (nonpulsatile section)
- tanpura
- sarod
- saval- jarab (faster tempo)
what is indian classical musical comparable to
middle eastern takhat ensembles
ta-ka-di-mi
indian drumming syllables
kanada ragam
- piano
- aroh: ascending path of a raga
- avaroh: descending path of a raga
aroh
ascending path of a raga
avaroh
descending path of a raga
how would you describe indian religion
polytheistic
Ninnada Nela (Kannada)
- pallavi section
- tambura drone, followed by the singer and violinist
- tabla drum and kinjira (tambourineish)
- violinist and singer acting heterophonically
pallavi section
- opening section of a kriti
- main melodic phrase/theme
Bollywood
- syncretic: American + Indian
- films
- Hindi
- timbre: nasaly, high, sounds like Kriti
- sitar and tabla
- participatory
- glamorizes indian life
- community based culture
Chinese music
- Buddhism
- socialist realsim (propaganda)
- confucianism
- taoism
Confucianism
emphasises intellectual traditions/ceremonies, conduct poetry and philosophy
Taoism
simplicity, philosophy, and everything connected to the divine
chinese classical music
- guqin
- slow/sparse playing
- nonparticipatory
- player read poem
- not a lot of notes
Ping sha lo yen
- wild geese desend onto the sand bank
- guqin
- yudino scale (5 notes)
- pentatonic
- fan yin (harmonies)
- emphasizing one note (ornamentation)
- calming/meditative
- original theme, variation, variation, etc
guqin
zither, traditional chinese chordophone
guqin
- zither, a traditional Chinese chordophone
- plays few notes
- drone sounds
why did socialist realism shut down chinese classical music?
because it is individualistic and and for the intellectual class
zither
chordophone laid out in front of you
Guzheng
- more active than the guqin
- no poem
- paints portraits with just the music
pipa
- pentatonic scales
- more brittle, bright timbre
- sparse texture
- music paints a picture
- more pitches
sizhu
- similar to takht
- heterophonic
heterophonic
same melody but variations
Cui Jian
- western instrumentation + chinese flute
- syncretic
