What are three kinds of music you might find in Jakarta (capital of Indonesia, located at the western end of Java)? How might each of these kinds of music be used in the society? (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
• Western-style nightclub music, karaoke bars, and discos; gamelan (percussion ensemble) music used to accompany wayang orang (elaborate dance-drama from central Java); Jakarta's own gambang kromong (small percussion ensemble) performing at the national arts center Taman Ismael Marzuki, and so on.
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This chapter will take a close look at the musics of which four Latin American countries? Which two languages will be represented in the songs to be studied? Who speaks the Quichua (or, Quechua) language? What basic instrumentations and styles will be represented in the recorded selections for the chapter? The nine recorded pieces to be presented with the chapter “speak eloquently to their own
cultures’ _____________.” What is the central theme in several of the examples? What will be an ideal response?
Ternary form is represented by the letters
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