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World Music Europe
terms for Eastern & Western Europe
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Music
Undergraduate 4
06/27/2009

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asymetrical meters
Definition
meter not divisible into equal parts
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verbunkos
Definition
"recruiting"  Roma bands (2 violins, 1 bass)
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csardas
Definition
national dance of Hungary, contrasting fast/slow tempos
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parlando-rubato/tempo guisto
Definition
non-pulsatile emotional expression/ second half metrical and fast
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national folk ensembles
Definition
state propaganda
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Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
Definition
bulagarian Woman album
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Romany
Definition
Eurasian ethnic nomadic group (India/Europe), culture collectors
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Ando drom
Definition
traditional Roma musical group
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Gipsy Kings
Definition
family from Spain, professional Roma musical group
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The Chieftains
Definition
Irish musical group that brought tradiational Irish music to the world
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Celtic Woman
Definition
homoginization of Ireland
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canntaireachd
Definition
Traditional Ireland- mouth music to imitate the bagpipe
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step dance
Definition
general classification of jig, reel, slip-jig.
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battering
Definition
foot percussion-Irish
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reel
Definition
1750 Scottland dance, 4/4 time, transmitted to Ireland, very lively, with periodic phrasing
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jig
Definition
Irish compound meter 6/8 lively dance
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slip jig
Definition
Irish 9/8 dance, feels in 3
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ceili
Definition
Irish social gathering of singing and dancing
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sean nos
Definition
Irish lament
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cante hondo
Definition
traditional Spanish flamenco forms of deep sorrow song and dance in Southern Spain, Gipsies
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flamenco
Definition
genre of Spanish music and Dance, the art of song, men/women sing, guitar playing
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cimbalom
Definition
E. Europe hammered zither, very large
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Kaval
Definition
Bulgarian rim blown fulte held at an angel in front of player
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gadulka
Definition
Bulgarian pear shaped vertical bowed fiddle w/ 3 gut strings (looks like short lute)
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gaida
Definition
Bulgarian bagpipe with a drone, blow-pipe, small set of pipes, melody on blown-pipe
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tambura
Definition
Bulgarian drone lute, long neck fretted lute w/4 strings or double courses
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tupan
Definition
Bulgarian drum
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balalaika
Definition
huge triangle shaped lute with frets
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uilleann pipes
Definition
bagpipe, smaller, no blow-pipe, bellows under arm so you can sing
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Scottish Highland pipes
Definition
bagpipe, larger, loud, blow-pipes, you can not sing, you must blow...
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Irish Harp
Definition
National Irish symbol, played by bard-keepers of the geneology
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tin whistle (pennywhistle)
Definition
Irish small metal flute, held in front of player
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bodhran
Definition
Irish frame drum played with brush
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bones & spoons
Definition
Irish ideophone
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Bulgarian State Radio and TV Vocal Choir
Definition
intended to preserve culture and governmental image. micromanaged, use parlando-rubato/tempo guisto
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bard
Definition
keepers of the Irish geneology, harp players, travelers
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Josef Renzy
Definition
revived the bagpipe festival, he's from Strakonice where Svanda the Bagpiper was from
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Svanda
Definition
Bagpipe character from Strakonice
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Strakonice
Definition
The European town of Rezny and Svanda
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elements of Europe
Definition
non pulsatal songs and rhythms,repetative dance rhythms, bright timbre, asymmetrical meters, follows speach patterns, epic songs, socialist realism (art that serves the state)
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Bela Bartok
Definition
Hungarian ethnomusicologist/composer, folk song collector
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dudy
Definition
Czech bagpipe
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Accordian
Definition
Celtic musical instrument
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horn pipe dance
Definition
simple duple, slower heavy dance steps (sailor dance)
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