Video Index by Voices and Instruments

VOICES

2-1: Vocal folds

2-2: Young voices (Ethiopia, PRC, Trinidad and Tobago)

2-3: Quechua traditional ensemble, Cuzco, Peru

2-4: Katajjaq, Inuit throat singing, Nunavut, Canada

2-5: Jimmie Rodgers

2-6: Tibetan love song

2-7: Old Time Camp Meeting song

2-8: West African praise singer

2-9: Japanese epic narrator

3-8: Prison work gangs

3-9: Ghanaian work rhythms

3-15: Alim Qasimov (Azeri traditional mugam)

3-19: Sijo (traditional Korean art song)

3-34: Isicathamiya, a cappella vocal ensemble

5-1:  John Lennon (“Mother”)

5-2:  Fado (Portuguese traditional song)

5-5: Mohammad Reza Shahjarian, Iranian vocalist

5-7: Bi Kidude, Zanzibari vocalist

5-14: South African lullaby

5-19: Byzantine hymn of Saint Kassia

5-22: Madagascan a cappella trio (“Lanitra Manga Manga”)

6-1: Tibetan “sky song” (Kajod Wangmo)

7-4: Otis Redding (“I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”)

7-5: Janis Joplin (“Ball and Chain”)

7-6: Umm Kulthum (Egyptian vocalist)

7-7: Acko Choedrag (Tibetan vocalist and songwriter)

7-11: Surinamese Creole teens (traditional Winti songs)

7-16: “One Love” (original by Bob Marley), Playing for Change version

8-3: Tuvan throat singing by Kongar-ol Ondar (“A Moment So Close” by Bela Fleck)

8-5: Cajun begging songs

8-14: Montagnard American song

8-15: Montagnard American hip hop 

9-4: Greenland hip hop

9-7: Tibetan love song

9-8: Tibetan nomadic song

10-1: Korean Buddhist chant

10-2: Vedic chant

10-3: Vedic chant, Kerala

10-4: Gregorian chant (Benedictine nuns of Notre-Dame-l’Annonciation)

10-5: Theravada Buddhist monks, Laos

10-7: Qur’anic recitation (tarteel)

10-8: Sheikh Abdul Basit ‘Abd us-Samad (tadjwid)

10-9: Adhan (Call to Prayer), Uganda

10-11: Qawwali (Sufi devotional song), India

10-12: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer

10-13: Azeri zikr (ritual prayer)

10-14: Mennonite choir

10-15: Thomas A. Dorsey (“Precious Lord,” African-American gospel)

10-16: Darlene Zschech (“Here in My Life,” Protestant praise and worship song)

10-18: Ugandan choral song

11-11: Japanese Buddhist chant

13-13: Croatian epic singer (guslar)

13-5: West African praise singer (jali)

13-8: Chinese storyteller (shuoshude)

13-10: Japanese epic narrator

13-11: Korean pansori epic

15-5: Marian Anderson

15-10: Trinidadian J’Ouvert carnival song

INSTRUMENTS

CHORDOPHONES

2-11: Kalumbu (musical bow), Zambia

2-12: Seperewa (bridge harp), Ghana

2-13: Celtic harp

2-14: Paraguayan harp

2-15: Saung gauk (Burmese harp)

2-16: Lyre documentary

2-17: Krar (Ethiopian lyre)

2-18: Ud (Arabic lute)

2-19: Tar (Iranian lute)

2-20: Setar (Iranian lute)

2-21: Sitar (North Indian lute)

2-22: Pipa (Chinese lute)

2-23: Ukulele (Hawaii, USA)

2-24: Akonting (Senegalese lute)

2-25: Banjo

2-26: Brazilian guitar (Sergio and Odair Assad)

2-27: Electric guitar (Jimi Hendrix)

2-28: Kamanche (Azerbaijan spike fiddle)

2-29: String quartet

2-30: Kamanja (Moroccan viola)

2-31: Sarangi (North Indian fiddle)

2-32: Santouri (Greek hammered dulcimer)

2-33: Qanun (Arabic zither)

2-34: Harpsichord

2-35: Guqin (Chinese long zither)

2-36: Guzheng (Chinese long zither)

2-37: Kayagum (Korean long zither)

2-84: South Indian violin

3-20: Ajaeng (Korean seven-string bowed zither)

5-6: Japanese shamisen (“Kyo no shiki”)

5-11: Chinese erhu (“Sai Ma”)

3-16: Tambur (five-string long-necked lute), ghichak (spike fiddle), and dutar (two-string long-necked lute)

3-17: Sarod (Ali Akbar Khan), sitar (Ravi Shankar), and tabla (Alla Rakha)

6-2: Sitar (Ravi Shankar)

7-1: Bandura (Ukrainian lute-zither)

8-6: Cajun twin fiddling

8-12: Gong (Montagnard tube zither)

8-19: Violin (“Nostalgia” by Ma Sicong)

13-3: Gusle (Balkan one-string fiddle)

13-5: Kora (West African harp-lute)

13-13: Ravanhatta (Rajasthani folk fiddle)

AEROPHONES

2-38: Native American Wooden flute

2-39: Enkwanzi (Ugandan panpipes)

2-40: Ocarina

2-41: Nplooj (Hmong leaf)

2-42: Taepyongso (Korean oboe)

2-43: Nadaswaram (Indian oboe)

2-44: Suona (Chinese oboe)

2-45: Cornamusa (Italian bagpipe)

2-46: Clarinet

2-47: Launeddas (Sardinian triple-pipe clarinet)

2-48: Klezmer (Hungarian clarinet)

2-49: Khaen (Thai mouth organ)

2-50: Chinese sheng (mouth organ) and accordion

2-51: English concertina

2-52: Wanamaker Organ

2-53: Dung-chen (Tibetan trumpets)

2-54: Brass Band

2-55: Bugle

3-5: Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute)

3-24: Gaida (Bulgarian bagpipe)

5-15: Scottish Highland bagpipes (Royal Military Tattoo)

6-3: Gaida (Bulgarian bagpipe) and wedding band

7-3: Bandoneon (Argentine dance orchestras)

8-7: Afro-Cajun accordion style

8-13: Ding nam (Montagnard mouth organ)

11-1: Trombone shout band

12-8: Shofar (ram’s horn)

15-2: Sarewa flute (Nigeria)

MEMBRANOPHONES

2-56: Timpani

2-57: Pat waing (Burmese drum circle)

2-58: Talking drum (West African)

2-59: Derbake (Middle Eastern goblet drum)

2-60: Changgo (Korean hourglass drum)

2-61: Powwow drum (Native American)

2-62: Frame drum

2-63: Pandeiro (Brazilian frame drum)

2-64: Congas

2-67: Agogo (iron double bell)

3-2: Dumbek (Middle Eastern goblet drum)

3-6: West African percussion ensemble (Guinea)

3-13: Timbales (Tito Puente)

3-17: Tabla (Alla Rakha), with sarod (Ali Akbar Khan) and sitar (Ravi Shankar)

5-9: Remo talking drum

5-10: Apenti (Surinamese talking drum)

5-13: Tassa drumming (Trinidad)

7-9: Surinamese drumming patterns

15-2: Jauje talking drums (Nigeria)

IDIOPHONES

2-65: Church bells (Spain)

2-66: Large hanging bell (Korea)

2-67: Agogo (iron double bell)

2-68: Castanets (Spain)

2-69: Dhantal (Suriname)

2-70: Musical saw

2-71: Embaire (Ugandan xylophone)

2-72: Jaltarang (Indian, tuned, water-filled ceramic bowls)

2-73: Endongo (Ugandan thumb pianos)

2-74: Zil (finger cymbals)

2-75: Rolmo (Tibetan cymbals)

2-76: Soultone cymbals

2-77: Hand-held gongs (PRC)

2-78: Filipino tuned gong

2-79: Tam tam

2-80: Javanese gamelan

2-81: Steel bands (Trinidad and Tobago)

3-11: Ghanaian hand and foot drum

3-12: Ghatam (South Indian clay pot)

3-14: Gamelan (Java, Indonesia)

7-14: Surinamese gamelan

8-10: Montagnard hanging gongs

8-11: Trung (Montagnard bamboo xylophone)

11-3: Mbira (thumb piano)

12-2: Sound of gongs at the Golden Rock, Kyaiktiyo, Myanmar

ELECTROPHONE

2-82: Theremin

3-39: Electronic instruments (“Sonnez La Cloche”)

ENSEMBLE

2-10: National Gugak Orchestra (Republic of Korea)

2-29: Ciompi String Quartet

2-48: Hungarian Klezmer

2-54: North Carolina Brass Band

2-81: Steel bands (Trinidad and Tobago)

2-84: South Indian violin, kanjira (tambourine), and mridangam (barrel drum)

2-83: Shinawi Korean folk ensemble

3-1: University of Michigan Marching Band

3-6: West African polyrhythm (percussion ensemble)

3-7: Bateria (Brazilian carnival percussion ensemble)

3-14: Gamelan (Java, Indonesia)

3-17: Sarod (Ali Akbar Khan), sitar (Ravi Shankar), and tabla (Alla Rakha)

6-3: Bulgarian wedding band

7-3: Argentine dance orchestras

7-14: Surinamese gamelan

8-1: Johann Pachelbel, Canon in D (traditional instruments)

8-21: Ala Kondre ensemble, Henk Tjon's funeral, Paramaribo, Suriname

13-6: Kaira Ba, West African-American fusion band

13-9: Touring company of blind musicians, PRC

15-6: Celtic music session, Cape Breton, Canada

15-7: Celtic music session, Cape Breton, Canada

NATURAL SOUNDS

1-1: Competing Amazonian songbirds

1-2: Buzzing beetle

4-1: Humpback whales

4-2: Gibbons

4-3: Gelada baboons