MISAMIS ORIENTAL GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH - typically comprise of drums

SCHOOL
Daf Dhol
3rd Quarter Music
South, Central and West Asia

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MUSIC OF INDIA
 India is the largest country in South Asia Tabla
 the music of India reflects different aspects of Asian
culture through its timbre, rhythm, melody, texture,
form and style.

Vocal Music
 Includes Carnatic and Hindustani Music and several
types of folk and popular music.
 Uses melismatic singing with nasal vocal quality.
Samagana – singing based on a set of pitches popular during
the Vedic times
Sama Veda – sacred text, where sung as Samagana and not
chanted. 3 Sushir – also known as blown air
- is the third of the four vedas of Hinduism - is characterized by the use of air to excite the various
Rig Veda – is also sung in the Samagana traditional singing resonator
style Bansuri Shankh
- is the first among the four canonical sacred text of
Hinduism known as Vedas

Carnatic Music
 refers to music from South India
 directed to a Hindu God that is why it is called
“temple Music”
 Music pieces are mainly set for voices and with lyrics
 composition called KRTI are devotional songs it is
unified:
 Same ragas
 Same solo instruments (veena, flute, violin)
 Same rhythm instruments (mridangam and
ghatam)
 Mridangam – most common instrument for
keeping rhythm in Carnatic music
Surpeti Shehnai
Hindustani Music
 Goes back to Vedic period around 100BC 4 Tat – referred to as Vina during the old civilization
 Predominantly found in the northern and central - instruments in this class are plucked (stringed
regions
instrument)
 Nasal singing is observed in their vocal music
 The most common style of singing is called Khyal, a
word which means “imagination”

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Hindustani Sangeet – instruments used in North India music
Carnatic Sangeet – instruments used in South India music

CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

1. Ghan – describe as a non-membranous percussive Sitar Gotuvadyam
instrument but with solid resonators.
- one of the oldest classes of instrument in India
Ghatam Karta

Ektar Gopichand

Manjira Nout

2. Avanaddh – described as a membranous percussive

instrument Rabab
5. Vitat – described as bowed stringed instrument Other Significant Middle Eastern Instruments

Banam Esraj

Oud Darbuk

Chikara
Sarangi
MUSIC OF PAKISTAN

MUSIC OF WEST ASIA - ISRAEL  Central Asian music encompasses numerous different
musical styles
 Pakistan is known for its unique vocals

Vocal Music of Israel Vocal Music

 Israel singers have a distinctive vocal style. They sing
with guttural and throaty enunciation.
2 divition of Jewish Music:
1. Devotional
 Almost entirely vocal
 Featured during Sabbath and other holy days
 The art of Hazan ( leader of prayer in the synagogue)
has always been evident in the culture
 Shofar is a special call to prayer and repentance; it is
sounded on the High Holidays (the Jewish New Year
and Day of Atonement)
2. Secular
 Instruments and voice are used
 Played during life passage events
 Context lies outside the religious domain
 Very rhythmic and have popular and romantic texts
Hora – a dance that often has strong off beats and asymmetric
meters
Accompaniments:
 Lute (similar to Philippine Banduria)
 Laud (similar to Indian Sitar)
 Darbuk (goblet drum)
 Tambourine
1. Ghazal
 Traditional expressions of love, separation, and
loneliness
 Tells about both the pain of loss of the lover and the
beauty of love inspite of that pain
 Can be sung by both men and women
2. Qawwali
 The devotional music of the Christi Order
 Originally performed mainly at Sufi shrines
Instrumental Music
 Punjabi Music – strengthens the important of musical
instruments in Pakistan
 Punjab – is a region in South Asia which is divided
into West Punjab, Pakistan and East Punjab, India
 Bangra – one of the most recognized forms of Punjab
is based on the drum, rhythm and dhol
Significant Instrument of Pakistan

Significant Instrument of Israel

Jewish Lyre Psalterion

Shofar Harmonium Rubab

Other Significant Instrument of Arab Countries

Goblet Toft