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Which is not part of Insular Southeast Asia?
Thailand
What is the climate in Southeast Asia?
Tropical
What is another term for Southeast Asia?
East Indies
Identify the main influences of India in the culture of Southeast Asia.
Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Metallurgy
Identify the main products that attracted European colonizers to Southeast Asia.
Spices, Rubber, Petroleum
What is the place that Britain and France conquered?
Indochinese Peninsula
What material is not used in Southeast Asia to make an instrument?
Shells
What kind of religion do early Southeast Asian inhabitants have?
Animism
What instrument is used for communicating in courts?
Gong
This Indonesian ensemble is an ensemble of metallophones played together.
Gamelan Selunding
Which of the following is an activity associated with Gong Kebyar?
attracting Hindu Deities
Interlocking and shimmer effects are done by what kinds of instruments in the
Gamelan ensemble?
metallophone
This instrument punctuates the ends of each cycle.
Gong Ageng
Classify if an activity is for the Javanese Gamelan Ensemble or the Balinese
Gamelan Ensemble.
Sudden shift in mood with virtuosic passages. - Balinese Gamelan
Highlights female solo with men choir - Javanese Gamelan
Superhuman speed because of high rhythmic density - Balinese Gamelan
Playing in courts for Sultan - Javanese Gamelan
What similarities do Javanese and Balinese Gamelan share?
Polyphony of instruments
What is the playing structure of Gamelan?
Colotomic Structure
What is not a Gamelan instrument?
Ranat Ek
, What tuning of gongs should one use to play happy tunes?
Slendro
The gongs, the gambang and all other instruments are said to be sacred. What is
the best way to show respect for the instrument?
Bow first before playing and not step over the instrument
When pitches from the overlapping tones of the gambang are heard, it creates a
sound like a tremolo. What technique is being applied here?
Shimmer effect
The Piphat ensemble usually accompanies all of these, but this event most
especially.
funerals
The Piphat ensemble usually accompanies funerals.
Ranat Ek
What is the double-reed aerophone that is part of the group?
Pi
Describe the Piphat Ensemble of Thailand.
continuous, busy, without direction
When playing for the Piphat ensemble one must know that the songs are in a
meter.
duple meter
When playing syncopations, what is the best instrument to use?
Ranat Thum
When playing the "Ching" what pattern should it follow?
Ching-chap-ching-chap
Classify the following instruments if an instrument is an idiophone, aerophone,
chordophone, or membranophone.
Ching - idiophone
Khawng Wong Yai - idiophone
Ranat Ek - idiophone
Pi - aerophone
The instruments of the Piphat ensemble play the melody in what kind of
harmony?
Polyphony
Which of these does not describe the Khawng Wong Lek?
xylophone
What empire inhabited Cambodia during the 7th Century?
Khmer Empire
The main influence of Cambodia's traditions came from?
China and India
This statement best describes Pinpeat Ensemble.
Gong-chime Music
Pinpeat accompanies all of these except for:
Wayang Kulit
What is the counterpart of Ranat Ek of Thailand in the Pinpeat Ensemble?
Roneat
Name the two membranophones from Pinpeat ensemble.