Find out about the world’s music:

instruments

• accordion
• chordophones
• double reed instruments
• drums
• drums: barrel, conical, or cylindrical
• drums: frame
• flutes
• gongs
• guitars
• idiophones
• instruments in general
• lutes
• radio
• rattles
• singing
• sound recordings
• trumpets or horns
• violins and fiddles
• zithers

place with the most music research about it:

• China

religion with the most music research about it:

• Christianity

most researched musical genres:

• popular music
• vocal music

technique

• composition
• form and structure
• improvisation
• melody
• rhythm and meter
• scales and intervals
• tempo
• instrumentation
• tuning and temperament

people

• ensembles
• performance practice
• performers
• societies and organizations
• economics
• patronage
• politics
• power and status
• sexual differentiation
• social organization
• audiences
• performance contexts
• performance places
• processions and parades
• ceremonies
• competitions
• festivals, celebrations and holidays
• weddings

metamusical

• pedagogy
• oral tradition and transmission
• aesthetics
• language and music

extramusical

• costumes and clothing
• dance and movement
• narratives
• poetry
• songs, texts
• theater

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