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UMinn-World Music
Middle East/India/Random things for final
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Music
Undergraduate 1
05/11/2010

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Term

 

 

Radif

Definition

Repertoire of melodies and scales used to improvise in a particular mode.

[not used as a performance piece]

Term
Dasgah
Definition

Mode

Has a particular scale, mood, patterns of notes associated with the mode.

Term
khandan
Definition

Spiritual "music"

ex: Chanting the Koran

Non-metric

Unaccompanied

Improvised

Term
Musiqi
Definition

Secular song

 

Metered

Uses instruments

Not necessarily improvised

Undesirable to "traditionalists"

Term
Santour
Definition

Hammer dulcimer

struck chordophone used in India and Middle East

Term
Oud
Definition

Lute/Chordophone

Found in Arabic music

from Europe - popular during the Rennaisance

Term
Tar
Definition

Plucked lute from Iran

 

Double bowl body

4 strings

Adjustable frets

Term
Chahar Mezrab
Definition

"Four hammers"

 

Very fast repeated melodic phrase with regular beat

Term
Avaz
Definition

Unmetered

improvised

vocal or instrumental song

Term
Tasnif
Definition

metered

composed song with words

vocal or instrumental

 

Term
Raga
Definition

Indian melodic modes

 

based on time of day, painting

 

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