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Grade 8 MUSIC
- 2. CC: Tokyo L: Nihonggo C: Yen („) FP: Mt. Fuji
- 6. Traditional Japanese music is basically meditative in character. Its performance is highly ritualized, as much in the music itself, as in the composure of the musicians when performing it.
- 10. Tsuzumi (hourglass-shape) â There are two varieties, the smaller kotsuzumi and the larger otsuzumi.
- 12. Taiko drums
- 14. Koto - is a 13-string zither
- 16. Biwa - is a Japanese short- necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling.
- 18. Shakuhachi
- 20. Hichiriki - is a double reed Japanese fue (flute)
- 21. Sho - is a Japanese free reed musical instrument
- 24. CHINA
- 25. CC: Beijing L: Chinese C: Renminbi FP: Great Wall
- 29. ï”Confucius - music in the highest sense as a means of calming the passion of dispelling of unrest and lust, rather than as a form of amusement. ï”Traditionally the Chinese have believed that sound influences the harmony of the universe. ï”Chinese theoretically opposed music performed solely for entertainment.
- 32. Yunluo is a set of ten small tuned gongs mounted in a wooden frame.
- 33. Pengling These are two small bells made of high-tin bronze, without internal clappers, and hemispheric or bottomless gourd-like in shape.
- 35. Yueqin Moon-shaped lute with shorter neck and four strings, played with a spectrum, used for accompanying local operas.
- 36. Pipa Four-stringed lute with 30 frets and a pear-shaped body.
- 37. Erhu Two-stringed fiddle and one of the most popular Chinese instruments.
- 38. Zheng An ancient Chinese instrument that has an arched surface and an elongated- trapezoid with 13 to 21 strings stretched over individual bridges.
- 40. Sheng Chinese mouth organ, looks like a set of panpipes, with 12 to 36 bamboo pipes.
- 42. NORTH KOREA
- 44. LC: Seoul L: Korean C: Won FP: Jeju Island
- 45. JEJU ISLAND
- 47. Korea's folk music tradition, with its generous use of bright rhythms and melodies, offers a more energetic and capricious.
- 48. Chong-ak - means literally "right (or correct) music", - cultivated mainly by the upper-class literati of the Joseon society. - refers to ensemble music for men of high social status outside of the court. - In this category, three important terms are a-ak, tang-ak, and hyang-ak.
- 49. Sog-ak or minsogak - traditionally associated with the lower classes or for the general public and are vibrant and energetic - It includes genres such as pansori and minyo.
- 50. Pansori is a kind of music presented to audiences by skilled vocal singers and drummers. But even the unskilled could sing these songs. They sang when they worked in the rice paddy or fields, sang when they went off their lover and sang when their life was troubled and weighing them down.
- 51. Kayagum (gayageum) - is a traditional Korean 12 string Zither.
- 52. Geomungo Six-string plucked zither with both bridges and frets.
- 53. Haegum (two-string vertical fiddle) It is held vertically on the knee of the performer and played with a bow.
- 54. Piri It is made of bamboo. Its large reed and cylindrical bore gives it a sound mellower than that of many other types of oboe.
- 55. Changgo It is an hourglass-shaped drum with two heads made from animal skin. The two heads produce sounds of different pitch and timbre, which when played together are believed to represent the harmony of man and woman.
- 63. Aerophone any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing body of air to vibrate Chordophone any musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points
- 64. Idiophone any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument's vibrating by itself. Membranophone any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane