Loops of steel balls wrapped round a cylinder, hand-held. -Caribbean
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What is a Guiro? Originates from?
Scrapers - Caribbean
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What is a Tragogo? Originates from?
Double headed bells - Caribbean
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What is the Guitarrone? Originates from?
A large four-stringed bass guitar - Caribbean
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What is a Tres? Originates from?
A small guitar with three sets of double strings - Caribbean
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What is a Cuatro? Originates from?
A small guitar with four strings - Caribbean
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What is Salsa?
A lively style of dance music with African and Spanish influences that originated in Cuba.
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What is Calypso?
Originally the national dance of Trinidad and Tobago, Calypso is particularly associated with carnival.
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What is Pan music? or steel band?
Steel band music originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s. Steel bands often play Calypso tunes but also play folk and classical music.
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What is soca?
Soca means 'soul-calypso' and is an energetic, disco-influenced offshoot of salsa.
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What is Mento?
Mento is a form of Jamaican folk music similar to calypso. It was most popular in the 1950s.
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What is Ska?
Ska is a fast dance music that emerged in the late 1950s.
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What is Reggae?
Reggae is a much slower form of music than ska which emerged in the 1960s.
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What is Rocksteady?
Rocksteady is a dance music that emerged in the mid-1960s.
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What is Merengue?
Merengue was originally the national dance of the Dominican Republic and has African and Spanish influences.
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What is the Kora?
A 21-string lute-bridge-harp
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What is a Shekere?
Kind of shaker
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What is a Marimba?
Like a xylophone but with resonating pipes underneath. Can be chromatic or tuned to pentatonic scales.
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What is a Balafon?
A simpler version of the Marimba, often with gourds hanging underneath to create resonance. Often tuned to pentatonic scales
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What is a Mbira?
Consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.
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What is the Rag Desh?
A late evening rag associated with the monsoon season.
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What is a Sargam?
The Indian music system od naming notes - Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni, Sa
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What is the Tal?
The repeating rhythm pattern usually played by the tabla. It usually has between 6 and 16 beats.
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What is a Sitar?
A long-necked plucked string instrument with movable frets and a gourd resonator
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What is a Sarod?
A plucked string instrument, shorter than a sitar without any frets
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What is a Sarangi?
A fretless bowed instrument, has 3 main strings and as many as 36 sympathetic strings
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What is an esraj?
A bowed string instrument, played sitting on the floor like the sarangi, but with frets like a sitar
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What is the Bansuri?
A bamboo flute with no keys.
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What is a Tabla?
A pair of small drums placed side by side on the floor in front of the player
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What is a Harmonium?
A reed organ operated by bellows which open at the back.
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What is the Alap?
The opening section, gradually getting more exciting as the tempo and rhythmic complexity increase
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What is the Jor?
Where the music begins to have a sense of pulse
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What is the Jhalla?
Where this beat (from the Jor) begins to appear in groups
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What is the Gat?
It's a fixed composition which is often varied by adding improvised decoration.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Hand-held shakers - Caribbean
Back
What are Maracas? Originate from?
Card 3
Front
Loops of steel balls wrapped round a cylinder, hand-held. -Caribbean
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