by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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Exploring Music Introduction 9

• by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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dat236 Guimbri

• two or three-stringed long-necked lute
• Berber people from Morocco
• hollowed-wood resonator
• goat-skin face

guimbri
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Liuqin

• four-string plucked instrument with frets
• iii4 Chen Gang The Sun Shines Over Tashkurgan

• Who are the Tajik people and which scale is this?

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The Sun Shines Over Tashkurgan

• Tajiks
• southwestern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous
  Region
• Mostly Muslims
• Scale

G Middle Eastern Scale!!
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Pipa

• pear-shaped lute of foreign origin
• 4-string plucked instrument with 4 neck ledges
  and up to 23 frets

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Pipa

• iii5 White Snow In Sunny Spring (ancient
  Chinese melody)

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Sanxian

• three-stringed plucked instrument with a small
  body and a long, unfretted neck
• iii7 The Moon over Guanshan, ancient melody,
  Zhang Nian-bing, arr.

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Ruan

• a plucked lute with a round body and a fretted
  neck
• iii6 Qin Wen-chen Night by the Lake

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Banjo

• ltewm618gt Earl Scruggs, banjo Foggy Mountain
  Breakdown (bluegrass)

Earl Scruggs, banjo
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Sitar

• Tuned strings
• High bridges
• Gourd resonators
• Sympathetic Strings
• lt34gt Ravi Shankar, Raga Charukeshi

Ravi Shankar, Sitar
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Long String Instrument

• Ellen Fullmans instrument with some strings over
  100 feet long
• Played by stroking along the strings
• Requires longer strings than plucking or bowing
• Track 14 Ellen Fullman Change of Direction

Ellen Fullman
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Semi-Civilized Tree

• Nazim Ozels harp-like string groups on an oak
  branch
• Counterbalanced opposing strings
• Tuning pins

Nazim Özel