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| blend of western and Japanese music |
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| 2+ voices elaborating the same melody in different ways |
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| Japanese concept involving the relationship among time, sounds, and silence in a piece of music |
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| folk song associated with farming class of Japanese |
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| shakuhachi player lowers the pitch and volume by changing the angle of the lips |
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| Japanese flute made of bamboo |
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| 3-string, long-necked, plucked flute |
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| shakuhachi player raises pitch by changing angle of lips |
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| guild with its own performance style and repertoire |
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| typical form for tempo - three part structure |
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| "empty orchestra" - accompaniment for amateur singer |
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| Japanese composed song form |
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| rapid movement between two pitches |
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| improvised introduction to a raga in free time |
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carnatic music
karnataka sangeeta |
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| South India's classical music style |
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| large clay pot played with fingers and hands |
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| tambourine of wood and lizard skin with jangles |
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| Indian drum comprised of two small drums |
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| distinctive elements provide raw material for melodic composition and improvisation |
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| principal song from of South Indian classical music |
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| seven-string plucked instrument |
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| rhythmic melodic improvisation in a raga |
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| cylindrical double-headed drum |
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| "flash" - gamelan dance in Bali |
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| musical piece for gamelan with regular beat and punctuation |
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| seven-tone scale of small and large intervals |
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| F-tone scale with nearly equidistant intervals |
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| pentatonic Japanese scales |
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| shadow puppetry using flat leather puppets made of water-buffalo hide |
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| North Indias classical music style |
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