Music in World Cultures Midterm

highland bagpipe - a Scottish outdoors pipe, compromised of an airtight bag made of animal skin or synthetic material

uilleann pipes - an Irish, outdoor pipe, often sounding more sweet and quiet than other bagpipes

chanter - part of the bagpipe that has the finger holes

blowpipe - the pipe through which a player blows to fill the air bag in a bagpipe

pibroch - a genre of solo bagpipe music that consists of a set elaborate variations on a theme

reel - genre of Scottish and Irish dance music typically played on a bagpipe

canntaireachd - singing using vovables to mimic bagpipes

diaspora - people moving outside of their historic homeland who maintain memories of their place of origin

muyu - traditional Chinese music that depicts a story

chain migration - the process of immigrants from a specific region that follow a group of people from the same group

mawwal - traditional arabic song, alternating from free rhythm and metered rhythms

maqam - system governing pitch and melody in arabic music

ud - middle eastern chordophone, similar to lute or guitar

qanun - arabic chordophone, played flat — similar to steel guitar

spiritual - songs that emerged from traditional slave songs, combined with aspects of Christianity

call and response - technique where one phrase is directly answered by another phrase

field holler -

dan bau - Vietnamese zither with a pitch bending bar

dan tranh - Vietnamese sixteen-stringed zither

dan nhi - Vietnamese two-stringed lute

song cycle - group of songs organized around a theme

tan nhac - Vietnamese song that utilizes Western instruments and Vietnamese lyrics, drawing on Vietnamese folk melodies

ho - Vietnamese work song

corrido - a type of ballad that commerates important events; a responsorial vocal section that signals the capoeria game can begin

ballad - genre of music that commerates important events and individuals, usually in strophic form

hero corrido - Mexican and Mexican-American ballad that protrays a larger-than-life figure

second line - people who follow the band in a jazz funeral, dancing as they go

New Orleans jazz -

hymn - sacred vocal genre sung during worship ceremonies

dirge - instrumental lament played at a slow tempo