Entertainment / Music Glossary

Woodwind Quintet: Standard chamber ensemble consisting of one each of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn (not a woodwind instrument).

Word Painting: Musical pictorialization of words from the text as an expressive device: a prominent feature of the Renaissance madrigal.

Work Song: Communal song that synchronized group tasks.

World Beat: Collective term for popular third-world musics, ethnic and traditional musics, and eclectic combinations of Western and non-Western musics. Also ethno-pop.

Xylophone: The xylophone, a pitched percussion instrument of African origin, consists of tuned blocks of wood laid out in the shape of a keyboard.

Yangqin: A Chinese hammered dulcimer with a trapezoidal sound box and metal strings that are struck with bamboo sticks.

Zither: Family of string instruments with a sound box over which strings are stretched: they may be plucked or bowed. Zithers appear in many shapes and are common in traditional music throughout Eur . . . View Full Definition

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