Djembe. talking drum (tuned) and dun dun (tuned bass drum)
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What is a cross-rhythm?
The effect heard when two conflicting rhythms are heard together
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What is a polyrhythm?
When two or more rhythms with different pulses are heard together
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What string instruments are used in African music?
Lutes, harps (e.g. the zora) and zithers
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What woodwind/brass instruments are used in African music?
Flutes, trumpets, horns and reed pipes
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What 2 tuned percussion instruments are used in African music?
Balafon (xylophone) and thumb piano (aka kalimba or mbira)
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What 4 types of auxiliary percussion are used in African music?
Rattles, shakers, gongs and rasps
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What is strophic form?
Split up into verses
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What is call-and-response form?
When a chorus part (usually homophonic) 'answers' a solo lead 'call'
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What vocal devices are used in African music?
Glissandos (slides which are sometimes known as portamento) and slurs, whistles, yodels and swoops and types of sound such as a raspy or buzzy quality.
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How are melodies usually organised within African music?
Melodies are usually organised within a scale of four, five, six, or seven notes. They tend to use small melodic intervals (lots of 2nds and 3rds) and often use recurring patterns and descending phrases.
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What are the 3 main things most classical Indian music is based on?
Most Indian classical music is based on a combination of rag (melodic form), tal (rhythmic form) and drone (sustained note).
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What is a raga?
Ragas are like a combination of a melody and a scale, each with their own particular ascending and descending pattern, and each is associated with a different time of the day, season, mood or special occasion
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What is a tala/tal?
A tala/tal is a small repeating rhythmic pattern, usually played by the tabla (small drums)
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What instrument plays the drone note, and what note is the drone?
Traditionally played on a tanpura, drone notes are sustained tonic notes
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What stringed instruments are used in Indian music?
Sitar (Plucked to get a high, shimmery sound); Sarod (plucked, fretless, slidey-sounding instrument); Sarangi (fretless, bowed instrument); Esrad (bowed instrument with frets)
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What is an Indian flute called?
Bansuri
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How are North Indian classical melodies varied?
By improvisation
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is a cross-rhythm?
Back
The effect heard when two conflicting rhythms are heard together
Card 3
Front
What is a polyrhythm?
Back
Card 4
Front
What string instruments are used in African music?
Back
Card 5
Front
What woodwind/brass instruments are used in African music?
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