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Indian Music and the Sitar Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Students will experience traditional Indian music and internalize it by moving to it. There will be an opportunity to listen to, play and dance to sitar music and raga. Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/indian-sitar/classical/music/tools-for-teaching/smithso...

An Introduction to the Music of Mongolia Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Students will be introduced to the music of Mongolia through several activities looking into different aspects of Mongolian music. Students will be introduced to the sound of the Morin Khuur (horse-head fiddle), the techniques of Khöömei (throat singing), and given an opportunity to play a traditional Mongolian song with western instruments. Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/introduction-mongolia/throat-singing/music/tools-for-te...

Melodic Rhythms of India Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Introduce students to the melodic rhythms of the tabla tarang, classical drumming from India, through music and movement. Learn to improvise the jati system of vocalizing rhythms. Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/melodic-rhythms-india/jati-tabla-tarang/music/tools-for...

Musical Hooves on the Steppes: Morin Huur of Mongolia Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Explore rural nomadic life in Mongolia and the highly impressionistic music and arts of the Central Asian steppes. Students learn to imitate sounds of the natural environment through improvised dance, instrumental performance, and throat-singing. Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/hooves-on-steppes-morin-huur-mongolia/throat-singing/mu...

Musical Instruments of the Indian Subcontinent The Metropolitan Museum of Art A brief overview of musical traditions in South Asia: "The music of the Indian subcontinent is usually divided into two major traditions of classical music: Hindustani music of Northern India and Karnatak music of Southern India, although many regions of India also have their own musical traditions that are independent of these." With images of 16 instruments. Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/indi/hd_indi.htm

The Pipa The Metropolitan Museum of Art An introduction to the Chinese pipa, a four-string plucked lute that "descends from West and Central Asian prototypes and appeared in China during the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534)." Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pipa/hd_pipa.htm

The Rag-dung (Cloisonné Trumpets) The Metropolitan Museum of Art A brief overview of the history of the Tibetan rag-dung, "long trumpets played in pairs for morning and evenings calls to prayer, preludes, and processions. ... By the Ming dynasty, the rag-dung may have been used in court rituals, as the elegantly decorated examples illustrated here attest." Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dung/hd_dung.htm

Shintaro-san of the Mountain: Mountains, Minyo, and Japanese Culture Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage This tutorial provides an introductory view into Japanese traditional ballads or folksongs, known as minyo, and folktales involving the cultural heritage of Japanese mountains. Basic background of Japanese traditional music and Japanese mountain folklore will be discussed; musical activities, experiences, and stories support this lesson. Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/shintaro-san-of-the-mountain-mountains-minyo-and-japane...

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