World Music Spider Charts

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World Music Spider Charts
2
Slow
A little quicker
Gradually gets faster
Tempo
improvised / no pulse
improvised Now has pulse and rhythm
has a drum beat improvised
Gat learnt melody
Alap
Jor
Jhala
Classical music
Raga (Scale)
Drone
Improvisation
Bollywood Film Music
Ornament / decoration
Harmony
Melody
Indian Music
Tintal (16 beat cycle)
Gat
Tambura (string)
Timbre
Harmonium (keyboard)
Tabla (Drum)
Tala - Rhythm cycles
Sitar (string)
Dholak (Drum)
Rhythm
Bhangra
Chaal 4/4 time
Fusion music - Popular and classical music
characteristics
3
Rituals Ceremonies
Accompaniment for Dance and Drama
Harvest
Entertainment
Master Drummer
Rhythm cycles
Rhythm
Polyrhythm
Cross rhythm
Djembe
Talking Drum
Syncopation
Off Beat
Agogo Bell
Ostinato (repeating pattern)
African Music
Timbre
Home made instruments
Griot - performer
Call and Response
Harmony in 3rds
Kora (String)
Mbira (Thumb piano)
Melody
Balaphon (xylophone)
Very narrow range
A cappella
Oral Tradition
Voices
Story Telling songs
4
Court State Ceremonies
Music is all memorised
Puppet shadow plays
From Java Bali
Accompaniment for Dance, Poetry and Drama
4 beats in a bar
gradually gets thicker
Heterophonic
Slenthem (glockenspiel)
Rhythm
Texture
Metallophones
Kenong (Pot Gong)
Indonesian Music
Gongs
Gong Ageng (big)
Balungan (main theme)
Ostinato
Gamelan Orchestra
Pelog (7 note scale)
Melody
Kengang (Drum)
Saron (xylophone)
Timbre
Slendro (5 note scale)
Ornamentation
Interlocking melodies
Suling (flute)
Rebab (fiddle)
Pentatonic
Tempo starts slow and gradually gets faster