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More Musical Instruments and Definitions

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Tambura - drone instrument- essential part of every classical concert -Tambura player generally sits behind the main artist so that they may hear the drone constantly and has to be played by a reliable person such as the soloist's wife or apprentice - consists of a long unfretted neck which has tuning pegs -number of string varies from 4 to 6 -strings are plucked continuously with the middle and forefinger of the right hand in a regular pattern Veena - exclusive to Sound India (Carnatic)- chordophone - -consists of a hollow resonator carved from a single block of wood which continues as long fretted neck to which is attached a smaller resonator -neck is curved backwards and at the end is a carved head of a mythological animal -4 main strings  and 3 Tala strings - gamakas - are used by pulling the

Origins of Indian Music

Do you live in NYC? Is your home starting to look a bit messy and dirty? Have it professionally cleaned by my company! Check us out or refer us to someone you may know that may need our services. nationalpremiercleaning.com If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   -Very Difficult to notate every detail in indian music - highly developed rhythmic and melodic structure - Guru -master of his craft or instrument, teacher - shishya- student - music originally passed on by oral tradition from on generation to another     - only real way to learn complicated music - Indian music has its origins in the Vedas (4000BC-1000BC) Vedas- the most sacred texts which contain about a thousand hymns - used to preserve poetry, invocations, and mythology, in the form of sacrificial chants dedicated to the Gods. - text was preserved and passed down by oral

Musical Instruments of the Arab World

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Asian Music History - Ethnomusicology

If you have any test reviews, homeworks, guides, anything school related that you think can be posted on this website, reach out to me at makingschooleasier@gmail.com   Contact With Assimilated Cultures  - early centuries of Islam - growth of Cosmopolitan cultural confess in Syria under the Umayyads (661-750) and in Iraq under the Abbasids (750-909) - Ethnic blending= Arabian Music + Syria, Mesopotamia, Byzantium, and Persia music= New Arab Music - old elements that remained - singing of poetical lyric in Arabic -new elements - performance techniques, new aspects of information and new musical instruments Quynat - female slave singers prevalent during early decades 2nd Process- Introduction of scholar of the Islamic world to ancient greek treaties - 9th century  - provided musical nomenclature, most of which was indicated by the names of the singers and the employed when playing the 'ud. -Abu Nasr  Al-Farabi- wrote the the grand treatise on music which discusses s