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Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany, Jean-Baptiste Lully in France, and Henry Purcell in England ...
The tambura supplies a drone accompaniment for both classical and folk music of South Asia, and it provides an essential tonal foundation from which a singer or instrumental soloist develops the raga (melodic, modal, and rhythmic framework for Indian music composition and improvisation).
Shrutis (microtones) is a widely used term in the context of Indian Classical Music. Some say there are 22 Shrutis while some say they are infinite.
Harmonic pitches produced by the division of strings were known in China. They may have been used to tune sets of bells or stone chimes, but the classical writings on music discuss a 12-tone system in relation to the blowing of bamboo pipes (lü). The first pipe produces a basic pitch called yellow bell (huangzhong).
Drone is also the term for the part of a musical instrument intended to produce the drone effect's sustained pitch, generally without the ongoing attention of the player. Different melodic Indian instruments (e.g. the sitar, the sarod, the sarangi and the rudra veena) contain a drone.
Group member John Cale extended and popularized this work in 1960s rock music with the Velvet Underground (along with songwriter Lou Reed).
microtonal music, music using tones in intervals that differ from the standard semitones (half steps) of a tuning system or scale.
Quarter tone has its roots in the music of the Middle East and more specifically in Persian traditional music.
Microtonal music is also known as xenharmonic music and polychromatic music. You may have heard the term “quarter-tone.” A quarter-tone is specific microtone, one that is exactly halfway between two Western semitones, so for example, “C half-sharp” is a quarter-tone that is 50 cents sharper than C.
The term guoyue, or national music, became popular in the early 20th century and was used loosely to include all music written for Chinese instruments in response to a particular nationalistic consciousness.
Musical features The tonality of Chinese music is pentatonic. This means it uses a scale of five notes for melodies. Harmonies are also created within this structure. Sometimes Chinese music is also heptatonic, using a seven-note scale, which is an extension of the pentatonic structure.
Chinese vocal music has traditionally been sung in a thin, non-resonant voice or in falsetto and is usually solo rather than choral. All traditional Chinese music is melodic rather than harmonic....Music of China.TimelineGenreChartsFestivalsMidi Modern Music FestivalRegional traditions7 more rows
One of the most popular Japanese instruments today is the shamisen. The shamisen is a 3-string lute thought to be a variation of the Okinawan sanshin.
The black spot in the middle of the drum is called the Syahi. The syahi is a ball of hide glue, ink, and weight that is pressed onto the drum to improve its resonance. On the outer edge of the head but inside the Gajira is another ring of rawhide called the Chat. This improves the tensile strength of the threading.
The South Asian fiddle, sarangi, has some two to three dozen sympathetic strings; the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle (Hardingfele) has four or five sympathetic strings; and the viola d'amore typically has seven.
Classical and folk forms of music in the Middle East that have less prestige than the religious khandan
End-blown flute (ordinarily with five finger holes) used in Takht ensemble and throughout the Middle East; sometimes spelled Nei or Nai
The tabla is a South Asian membranophone percussion instrument
sections were completed sometime around 1200 BC (though people refer to the Vedas as Hindu 'scripture', they were initially passed down orally for many centuries). One book of the Vedas, the Sama-Veda, contains hymns that were sung to acollection of melodies, called the Samagama. The Rig-Veda is a collection of poems that tells the stories of Hindu deities. In the Vedas one finds the earliest articulation of India's "caste system".
True/False Although a raga in the Hindustani system may be essentially the same as its Karnatak counterpart, it is the performance styles of the two traditions that make them distinctive