Laura Clark

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Concordance of Country Music

• Laura Clark
• ETE 100-01
• 9/7/2005

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Familiar Term

• Acoustic refers
• to music produced
• by instruments
• not amplified
• electronically.

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Genres of Country Music

• Bluegrass

• Honky Tonk

• Zydeco

• Western Swing

• Country Rock

• New Country

Nashville Sound
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The Accordian

• Is a reed instrument with finger boards, or
  manuals, for both hands, connected by a bellows.

• Used in Tejano, Zydeco, and Western Swing music.

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The Banjo

• A plucked stringed instrument
• Metallic timbres are the product of strings
  stretched over a membrane of skin, plastic, or
  parchment.

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• Has a metal resonator disc mounted inside the
  body connected to the bridge.

• Known as the resonator guitar

The Dobro
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• Essentially the same as the violin

• One of the primary melodic instruments in
  traditional country music

The Fiddle
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The Mandolin

• Small fretted string instrument plucked with the
  fingers, a plectrum, or a quill.

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The Autoharp
Provides chordal accompaniments with minimal
effort
A popular folk instrument of the 19th century
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• Also known as the Hawaiian guitar

• A variant of the acoustic guitar

The Steel Guitar
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