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    The document provides a study guide for a world music midterm covering 5 lectures on musical traditions from various regions. Lecture 1 discusses Javanese gamelan music from Java, Indonesia, including scales, instruments, and the Javanese concept of knowledge called ngelmu. Lecture 2 examines indigenous instruments of Mexico and the Americas. Lecture 3 covers organology and the musical bow, bagpipes, and classification of instruments. Lecture 4 presents traditional music of Japan such as the koto and shakuhachi. Lecture 5 focuses on music of Ethiopia including modes, instruments like the krar, and chant traditions. The document includes listening examples, vocabulary terms, and a sample question

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    World Music Midterm Study Guide

    Midterm: March 20, 2019

    Lecture 1: Javanese Gamelan and Epistemology

    Listening Examples

    Gending Kinanti _ Pelog Nem

    Palarang Pangkur _ Pelog Barang

    Ladrang Wilujeng_Slendro Manyura

    Vocabulary

    Java: the most populous island of Indonesia, home to the Javanese

    gamelan: a Javanese musical ensemble, composed primarily of bronze metallophones


    may refer to the music, the players, or the instruments themselves

    balungan: skeletal melody, the written portion of the music

    colotomy: cyclical structure in music

    laras: scale

    pelog: 7-tone scale

    slendro: 5-tone scale

    irama: relative density/speed of balungan to elaborating/flowering instruments

    epistemology: the study of knowing

    ngelmu: the Javanese theory of knowledge, achieved through the use of rasa

    rasa (from Sanskrit): intuition, flavor, ability to sense non-material qualities of things

    batin (from Arabic): the internal or hidden meaning of an thing

    lahir (from Arabic ​zahir​): external, material qualities of a thing


    Lecture 2: Indigenous Instruments of Mexico and the Americas

    Listening Examples

    Luis Perez Ixoneztli - En el Omligo de la Luna excerpt


    (this excerpt uses atecocolli, ayotapalcatl, and tlapan huehuetl)

    Jorge Reyes - Baa Wehai demonstration

    Jorge Reyes - Tehuehuetl Demonstration

    Vocabulary

    tawitol: musical bow

    baa wehai: percussive gourds placed in water

    atecocolli: sea shell trumpet

    ayotapalcatl: turtle shell marimba

    chililitli: gong

    teponaztli: slit drum, often carved to resemble deities

    tehuehuetl: stone marimba

    tlapan huehuetl: tall drum cut from a single tree, 3 lightning bolt legs

    Maya: A Mesoamerican civilization stretching throughout the Southern half of


    modern-day Central America from 2000 BC until their murder by Spanish
    invaders in the 16th century

    Mexica: an indigenous people in the Valley of Mexico, considered to be the rulers of


    what is now referred to as the “Aztec” empire

    Nahuatl: the language spoken by the majority of indigenous people in the Valley of
    Mexico, including the Mexica

    Lecture 3: Organology, Bagpipes, and the Musical Bow

    Idiophone: body of the instrument is the vibrating material; (includes all percussion
    except drums)
    Aerophone: air is the vibrating material; (woodwinds, brass instruments, bagpipes, etc)

    Chordophone: strings are the vibrating material; (fiddles, zithers, etc)

    Membranophone: membrane is the vibrating material; (drums, kazoo, etc)

    Lecture 4: Japanese traditional music

    Listening Examples

    Classical Koto - Godan Ginuta

    Teruhisha Fukuda - Honkyoku excerpt

    Ensemble Nipponia - Shamisen solo

    Vocabulary

    Japan: an island nation in East Asia, located in the Pacific off the East coast of the
    Asian continent

    Koto: a 13 string, plucked zither from Japan with movable bridges

    Shakuhachi: an end-blown bamboo flute; its name means “1.8 shaku,” referring to its
    length in an archaic unit of measurement

    Honkyoku: compositions for solo shakuhachi played by Japanese zen monks called
    komuso

    Gagaku: imperial court theater (music and dance) of Japan; the full ensemble may
    contain shakuhachi and koto

    Shamisen: a three string fretless Japanese chordophone (often referred to as a


    Japanese banjo)

    Lecture 5: Ethiopia

    Listening Examples

    Alemayu Eshete - Ambassel


    Asnaqetch Werqu - The Lady with the Krar - (Tizita mode)

    Ethiopian Liturgical Chant - Zema

    Vocabulary

    Ethiopia: East African country located on the horn of Africa

    kiñit: Ethiopian musical mode

    tizita: major pentatonic mode, 1 2 3 5 6

    ambassel: phyrigian pentatonic mode, 1 b2 4 5 b6

    azmari: wandering musician storytellers, respected in traditional Ethiopian society, bard

    begena: large 10 string lyre with a buzzing timbre, used for meditation and prayer

    washint: bamboo or wooden flute

    mesinko: one string bowed chordophone

    krar: 5 or 6 string small lyre (chordophone)

    zema: liturgical chant of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    sistrum: idiophone instrument used for zema, originating in Ancient Egypt

    esketsa: Ethiopian dance characterized by vigorous shoulder movement


    Sample Question

    (Listening example that is played is Palaran Barang - Pelog Nem, unbeknownst to you, the
    student)

    1. Where is the example you just heard from?


    a. Java
    b. Philippines
    c. Ethiopia
    d. Mexico

    2. In this style of music, what is the word for the written melody?
    a. Irama
    b. Kiñit
    c. Balungan
    d. Mexica

    3. What scale is this example in?


    a. Ambassel
    b. Irama
    c. Koto
    d. Pelog

    4. For the culture that produces this music, what is the word for knowledge?

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