World Music

• Indian Instruments

  • Bansuri - Blown flute made from bamboo
  • Sarangi - Stringed instrument played with a bow
  • Sitar - Stringed instrument, plucked long necked
  • Tabla - Set of two drums, sound produced by tapping different parts of the drum
• Features of Indian Music

  • Pitch-bending
  • Improvisation
  • Ornamentation
  • Texture of melody and drone
• Chinese Instruments

  • Dizi - Blown flute made of bamboo
  • Sheng - Mouth organ
  • Erhu - two stringed bowed fiddle
  • Pipa - pear shaped wooden body
  • Yangqin - String struck with two slender bamboo beater covered with felt
• Features of Chinese Music

  • Heterophonic texture
  • Melodies are pentatonic
• Indonesian Instruments

  • Metallophones/Gongs
• Features of Gamelan

  • Heterophonic texture
  • Drums indicating tempo change
  • Contrasts of temp, dynamics and timbre
• African Instruments

  • Kora - 21 stringed instrument that's plucked with fingers
  • Balafon - xylophone
• Features of African Music

  • Ostinato
  • Call and response singing
  • Heterophonic texture
  • Syncopation
• Arabic Instruments

  • Rubab - String instrument, plucked lute
  • Ud - Low sounding plucked lute with deep body
• Features of Arabic Music

  • Call and response
  • Heterophonic texture
  • Short phrases with narrow range of notes
• Japanese Instruments

  • Shakuhachi - blown flute made from bamboo
  • Sho - Woodwind instrument Japanese mouth organ
  • Koto - Plucked, wooden, long instrument
• Features of Japanese Music

  • Heterophonic texture
  • Pitch-bending
  • Through-composed