1. What is the Muslim call to prayer called?
2. The opening of a traditional piece is called the _____, when players can introduce melodies and experiment with the sound.
3. What instrument heard in a traditional takht is a plucked string instrument?
4. The dispersal of people sharing cultural ties away from their original homeland is called?
5. The beat of traditional Arabic music is usually a pulse that repeats again and again. This pattern is called an ______.
6. What instrument heard in a traditional takht is a bowed stringed instrument with a small body and a long neck?
7. What technique is fast-paced moving back and forth between two notes?
8. Active since the late 1970s, this Iraqi singer and composer has worked to popularize modern styles of Arabic music.
9. What instrument heard in a traditional takht is an Arabic bagpipe?
10. This 10th-century philosopher was perhaps the most well-known early writer on music and Arabic culture.
11. What traditional ensemble consists of five to seven different instruments that contribute different sounds to the overall texture of the music?
12. What vocal technique is the act of holding out a consonant over a long pitch while using a nasal quality?
13. What instrument heard in a traditional takht is an Arabic flute?
14. The _______ is an emotional sense of ecstasy that describes how music affects the performer or listener.
15. What instrument heard in a traditional takht is a small drum?
16. What technique is a high-pitched trilling that sits in the upper part of the head voice?
17. The person who performs the azan is the ________.
18. The Arabic scale, which organizes pitches with microtonal tuning, is called?