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alapana: with an introductory, improvisatory section, free rhythm
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Bharata Natyam: Indian dance, relates stories of the gods through codified gestures and facial expressions
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carnatic: southern India
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carnatic music: classical music of India
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Cathir: temple dance
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Circle Dance: socializing dancing, frequently performed, "one sung over", Sway and dance songs, divided into enemy and home group, gift songs
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cow horn rattle: used in native american culture
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dangdut: a type of popular indonesian song often having morally edifying lyrics with an islamic orientation and revealing strong musical influence from hindi films songs.
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devadasi: temple girl who would dance the bharata natyam, dedicated to worship of the gods, but also viewed as a prostitue
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Dine people: largest Native American tribe in the US, farmers but much of their income comes from mining and lumber, known for intricate weaving and sliversmithing
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Gamelon: indonesian musical ensemble
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Gongan: basic meoldy with "cadences" where gong strokes mark the ends of phrases
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guru: one on one teacher with student
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hindusthani: northern India
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Hozhoo: must be maintained through religious ritual involving music
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Kriti: a genre of devotional hindu poetry from south India
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kriti: form the backbone of any typical carnatic music in concert and is the longer format of a carnatic song
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Legong Kraton: pair dances in mirror image indonesia dancing
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Longhouse: The basic house type of northern Iroquoian peoples such as the HURON and IROQUOIS.
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melakarta: basic "mother" scale, There are seven notes
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mrindangam: double-headed drum, made of carved hollow wood and 2 leather membranes (India)
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Nightway ceremony: representation of the precsence of gods who give god power to the ceremony to heal a sick person
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pelog: 7 toned tuning system (indonesia)
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peyote rattle: used during native american church ceremony
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polyphonic: having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
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portamento: a "slide" at the ends of phrases (NA)
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powwows: gatherings or meetings of Native Americans
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raga: pattern of notes like a melody, includes a collection of notes, a scale, intonation, ornaments, resting tones etc.
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Ratnakara: important musical texts form INdia which hindustani music and carnatic music regard as a definitive text
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sabhas: cultural music clubs
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shehnai: A double reed instrument similar to an oboe.
Body made of wood with a brass resonating bell at the end. Has open holes without keys. Found also in Hindusthani music (india)
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Shootingway ceremony: tells the story of a holy young man who travels across the earth and his adventures. Communal, leader call and response, vocables, syncoptation
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sitar: plucked, 22 stringed classical instrument, long hollow neck, movable curved frets, sympathetic strings, gourd resonator (India)
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slendro: 5 toned tuning system (indonesia)
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tabla: set of 2 small drums, one metal and pot shaped the other of wood and cylindrical (India)
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tala: rhythmic element of the dance, stamping feet, ankle bells
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tambura: long necked plucked lute, drone (India)
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Tani Avartanam: drum solo, drone, sub divided tala
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Tani Avartanam: a drum solo towards the end of the musical piece
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tanjori court: or "court of Thanjavur" is a region in the southern tip of India.
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theosophy: all religions point to a higher philosophy
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Vedas: sacred texts in the Hindu religion, they are a set of four collections of hymns and religious ceremonies transmitted by memory through the centuries by Aryan priests
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veena: One of the oldest string instruments India (1500 BCE).
Associated with Saraswati
Has seven metal (steel) strings: four for playing melodies, three for drone strings (india)
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venu: wooden flute used in Carnatic music. It is a transverse flute where the player blows across a mouthpiece and uses the fingers to cover open holes. (india)
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vocables: Meaningless syllables (NA)
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water drum: made of iron or cly pot with a wet, stretched leather membrane and half filled with water
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Wayang Kulit: Shadow puppetry
Found in both traditions
Bali: four gender players who are accompanying the same play
Java: slow, close to pentatonic scale
Very long epic stories told using puppets
Some performances can go all night
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Yeis: Holy People who help the Navajo