Dictionary: K

short lute in the shape of a box, from Madagascar

vertically held string instrument from India. nineteen strings, three of gut for melody, two of brass for drone, and fourteen of steel for sympathe…

chamber

the pitch used for instruments in Germany during the Baroque period, where a' was about 410 425 Hz

Afro Brazilian dance

canon

traditional Finnish stringed instrument, laid on a table or across the player's knees and plucked

Middle Eastern instrument dating before the time of Christ. similar to a zither, 72 75 grouped strings, which are tuned flat and then raised or low…

popular nightclub style from Japan where customers sing the melody to accompanying prerecorded tracks

barely

cavatina

a Korean 12 string zither

ancient Balinese trance dance performed to appease the gods in times of difficulty

audacious

audacity

an Irish funeral song

no way

a two or three string long necked lute from Chad

specific scale or series of notes defining a particular tonality

A key center organizes harmonic tension and release around a tonic. Identifying key center helps performers shape phrasing, cadences, and modulatio…

the first note of the scale upon which a piece of music is based

an arrangement of sharps or flats placed on the far left hand side of each line of the staff, indicating scale of the piece See key signature in El…

a style from Zanzibar, percussive and dance based

child

children

childlike

church

church cantata

unkind description of the percussion section of an orchestra

ancient Greek lyre like instrument, a square or rounded resonator box (body) and as many as eleven gut strings supported by a yoke attached to two…

a work that is shallow, pretentious, gaudy, without substance, or calculated to have popular appeal

an Angolan style based on the semba, rumba and quilapanga

lamenting

lamentable

brace

sound, tone

timbre, tone

clear, distinct

small, minor

small, minor

resonant, to sound

resonant, to sound

pizzicato, plucking

plucked lute

Latvian lap zither

a quick duple time Polish dance

comic

popular style of Haitian tropical music created in the 1950s

composed

Korean six string zither

a three stringed lute from Kyrgyzstan

a small traditional four stringed lute in the form of a teardrop from Gambia

strummed lute from Ghana

West African lute

counterpoint

a country dance

concert, concerto

informal concert piece, usually in one movement, for solo instruments and orchestra

Central Asian Turkic short lute

West African harp lute with 19 strings, popular in Gambia, Senegal and Mali. has a skin stretched across a large gourd, a wooden neck and gut or ny…

one stringed instrument with a string fixed on a curved branch of a tree. The sound is made by a violin bow or plucked, and the notes are changed w…

a type of Serbian dance

a 13 string Japanese zither of Chinese origin. about 6 feet long. laid horizontally with waxed silken strings stretched tightly over movable bridge…

strength, vigour

strong, vigorous

Polish dance from the Kraków region, in 2/4 time with syncopated rhythms

Polish dance from the Kraków region, in 2/4 time with syncopated rhythms

a six string bowl shaped lyre from Ethiopia

cycle, circle

the sharp sign

a 16 or 21 stringed zither. the most popular plucked traditional Chinese instrument on Taiwan

a quick, triple time Polish dance

Korean seven stringed zither used in court music

short

short

acciaccatura

an urban South African genre developed in the 1990s, a fusion of various musical sounds that were popular in the 1990s, including South African dan…

dance style from the Democratic Republic of Congo that was developed in the 1980's