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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

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Notes with equal increments

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Pentatonic scale

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A musical scale with five notes per octave

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Tabla

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Small hand drums that are struck using the heel of the hand

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Sarod

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A four-stringed lute used in Indian music as a drone accompaniment

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Ornamentation

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Musical embellishments (i.e. vibrato)

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Solfege

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Do Re Me Fa So La Ti

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Trills

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Very fast vibratos surrounding a particular note

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Rafa Nilambari

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Indian lullabye, using patterns of intervals and rhythms

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Fado

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Portuguese ballad about fate

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Quinceanera

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Mexican celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday.

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Amelia Rodriguez

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Portuguese singer

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Mariachi

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Mexican folk music played by a small group of musicians dressed in native costumes

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Diaspora

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Where people gather from different countries (I.e. Chinatown)

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Folk Music

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Music that originates in traditional pop cultures

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Charro

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A Mexican cowboy

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Scottish Highland Bagpipe

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A bagpipe native to Scotland

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Melody

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Primary leading note in a song

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Piob Mhur

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A great Highland bagpipe

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Biphony

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Drone and melody played together (throat singing, Armenian flutes, bagpipes, etc.)

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Canntaireachd

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Imitating the ornaments of the bagpipes with the mouth

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Polyphony

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More than one melody

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Professor Nketia

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An African drummer who used to teach at UCLA

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Steel drums

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Grooved oil-drums used for music. Originated in the Caribbean.

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Homophony

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One melody and one harmony

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Disjunct melody

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A scale with large intervals

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Drone

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Bass note held throughout a passage of music

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Conjunct melody

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The difference in pitch between two consecutive notes of a musical scale

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Duduk

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Large Armenian woodwind instrument

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Uilleann pipes

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Type of Bagpipe

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Durme durme

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Means “Sleep.” Comes from a Ladino lullabye

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Blowpipe

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Mouth-blown bagpipes that are the easiest to play

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Chanter

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The flute portion of the bagpipe used to make different notes

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Beat

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The pulse of a song

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Harmony

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Notes that mesh well together

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Monophony

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One melody

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Falsetto

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A method to sing higher than singers normal range

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Music

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Vocal or instrumental sounds

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Nasal tone

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Sound characterized with a nasal quality to it

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Pitch

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Frequency-related scale of higher and lower notes

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Straight tone

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No variation of a particular note. Opposite of vibrato

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Katajjaq

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Back and forth throat singing. From the Inuit culture

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Vibrato

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Small variations of a particular note

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Tuva

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Society in Southern Siberia

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Jay Ganesh

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Lord of Good Fortune. Performed at the end of a Puja worship service. Comes from the Hindustani tradition

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Bollywood

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Indian movie industry, based in Mumbai (Bombay)

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Chaturthi Festival

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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

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Spiritual teacher in Buddhism and Hinduism

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Polyrhythm

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More than one rhythm on top of each other

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Puja

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An Indian worship service

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Atumpan

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Talking drum in the Akan Native to sound warnings, or teach poetry

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Igil

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Two-stringed musical instrument out of Western Mongolia. Accompanied Tuvan throat singers.

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Musical ethnography

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Written representation of a music culture

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Khoomii

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Tuvan throat-singing

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Ethnomusicology

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The study of music in different cultures.

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Acoustics

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How a sound fills a room/building

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Timbre

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A distinctive sound or overtone from an instrument

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Agbadza

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An African piece played at a funeral by the Dzodzemidozi Funeral Association

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Homowo

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Ghana festival with dancing. Rattles, bells, and drums

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Fontomfrom

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Ghana dance. Music with loud drums

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Highlife in Ghana

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Popular music of Ghana

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Refrain

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Chorus of a song

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Fundamental tone

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The tone that represents the frequency of an object, like a string or bell

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Strophic

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Different words to the same tune (hymns)

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Frequency

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Vibration dependent upon pitch

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Soundscape

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Sounds heard in a particular location

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Tala

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A rhythmic pattern in classical Indian music

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Sitar

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Indian guitar

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