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Chapters: Intro-2

1
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Sygyt Khoomii

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Throat singing with high fundamental and clear overtones

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Kargyraa Khoomii

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Throat singing with low fundamental

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3
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Ethnomusicologists

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Music-documenting scholars. Study of music + anthropology

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4
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Carillon

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Bell collection

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5
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Acoustics

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Study of sound

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6
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Harmonics

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

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7
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David Hyke

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

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8
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Duduk

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Armenian wind instrument (circular breathing)

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9
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Organology

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Study of instruments

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10
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Idiophones

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

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11
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Chordophones

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One or more strings vibrate

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12
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Lute

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Chordophone = neck + body + parallel strings

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13
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Harp

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Chordophone = soundboard at angle to which strings are attached

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14
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Lyre

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Chordophone = two bars extending up with crossbar to hold strings

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15
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Zither

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Chordophone = lat body, strings attached parallel to body

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16
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Aerophone

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

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17
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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.

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18
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Electrophone

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

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19
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Mode

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General pitch organization of tradition or scale

20
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Cents

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Octave = 1200, HS = 100

21
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Conjunct Melodies

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In close regular intervals

22
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Disjunct Melodies

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Large interval leaps

23
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Monophony

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Single melody

24
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Biphony

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Melody with drone

25
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Polyphony

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Several independent melodies

26
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Heterophony

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Same melody but different accents or ornamentation

27
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Homonphony

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Melody and harmony but in same rhythm

28
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Atumpan

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

29
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Accra, Ghana

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Highlife music, Atumpan

30
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Mumbai, India

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

31
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Highlife Music

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Made in 1920 Accre

32
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Bollywood

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

33
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Ghazal

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

34
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gamesh

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Hindu god… miserere nobis Domine!

35
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Boston, USA

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

36
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The Boston Globe

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Boston newspaper with music events

37
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Buskers

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Boston street musicians

38
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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

39
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Fado

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Porteguese nostalgic song longing for left behind country

40
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Amalia Rodrigues

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Famous for Fados

41
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Gamelan

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

42
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Beating tone

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

43
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Polos and Sangsih

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Interlocking Gamelan parts

44
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Canerata

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

45
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Coladeira

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Fast Cape Verdean dance

46
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Cavaguinho

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High Cape Verdean Chordonphone

47
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Viols

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Early classical instrument

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