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World Rel. & Music Mid. Term Mid. East.
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
03/04/2013

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idiophones
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"self sounding", sound is created by beating, hitting, and scraping, examples include rattles, sticks, bones, gongs
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membraphones
Definition
drums or tambourine, skin or membrane stretched over over
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chordophones
Definition
vibrating string
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5 types of chordophones
Definition
fiddle, lyre, musical bow, harp, lute
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ud
Definition
sultan of instruments, found in egypt
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aerophones
Definition
vibrating air with compressed space
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nay
Definition
end blown flute used in sufi orders
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magam -rast
Definition
similar to the major scale but with flat 3rd and 7th
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magam - nahawand
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similar to harmonic minor when ascending, similar to the natural minor when descending
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magam - bayyati
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uses D as tonic, 2nd and 6th degrees flattened
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