World Music: terminology for test 3 Flashcards

Small clusters of non-adjacent houses in which the Quichua of the northern Ecuadorian highlands (the Otavalo valley) have traditionally lived.

A ballad genre (song that tells a story in verses often having identical musical accompaniment) from the Mexico-Texas-border region, characteristically performed by male duo self-accompanied on guitar and often containing formulaic elements and characteristic opening and closing; often addresses the exploits of heroic figures, migration experiences, romance, or tragedy.

A type of ceremonial panpipe music from the altiplano, or high plateau, of Peru-Bolivia. The word k'antu might be related to a widely known flower of Bolivia, the kantuta, or it might be derived from the Spanish word for song, canto.

An Andean vertical notched flute.

Reconstructed genre of Afro-Peruvian music. An example is "azúcar de caña."

A political song movement through which people stand up for themselves in the face of oppression by a totalitarian government developed first in the Southern Cone of South America-Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay-during the 1950s and 1960s, and it has since spread throughout Latin America.

Dating back to the Inca civilization, A language spoken by five-and-one-half to eight million first peoples (native Americans) in the Andes region of South America.

A percussive instrument made from donkey, horse, or cow jawbone; the animal's molars, when loosened by exposure to the elements, produce a clear dry crack when struck with the fist. Used today in Afro-Peruvian music.

Originally (c. 1860) either a type of song played at the festival of St. John (San Juan) the Baptist held in June or a type of dance performed at that festival. Today it is a northern Ecuadorian highland Quichua genre that displays an isorhythmic 8-beat two-part phrase structure characterized by related melodic patterns.

In Andean South America, refers to panpipes, a set of end-blown bamboo tubes lashed together, each tube producing a particular pitch. In the southern Andes (Peru and Bolivia), zampoñas are in two ranks, or lines, of pipes.

Islamic call to prayer, heard five (5) times a day from mosques and over mass media among Muslim communities throughout the world.

nomadic groups that inhabit the desert regions throughout the Arab world.

a long-necked lute with 24 movable frets and two sets of strings in triple courses C and G and a single bass string tuned to C.

a dispersion of a people that was formerly concentrated in one place.

The part of the Arab world that is in the Western Part of North Africa (Morocco, Tunesia, Algeria).

maqam means musical mode; Bayyati is the name of the mode.

the man who performs the call to prayer.

the holy scriptures of Islam, comprised of 114 chapters and believed by Muslims to be the word of God as transmitted through the angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad.

the Arab tambourine.

Arabic, an ensemble of 3-8 instrumentalists, sometimes including a singer, who perform traditional Arab music on Arab stinged, wind and percussion instruments.