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Country. Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
A Cambodian musical instrument called a Sneng ស្នែង, made from a cow's horn, sits in front of a water buffalo horn. The reed where the instrument is played is visible on the side of the horn. Sneng (Khmer: ស្នែង) - water buffalo or ox horn with a single free reed photo. Pey pok (Khmer: ប៉ីពក) - free-reed pipe [1][2 ...
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...
Kulintang (Indonesian: kolintang, [ 13 ] Malay: kulintangan[ 14 ]) is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have ...
The history of the pinpeat can be traced back to the origins Khmer music. The orchestra and its lead instrument of that era, the pin (harp), were introduced to early Khmer kingdoms from India, where the pin was depicted far back as the Gupta period (3rd century a.d. – 543 a.d.). [8]
Dating to around c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. [4] [5] From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed; since each string played a single note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow ...
The name "Jew's Harp" first appears in 1481 in a customs account book under the name "Jue harpes". [10] The "jaw" variant is attested at least as early as 1774 [11] and 1809, [12] the "juice" variant appearing only in the late 19th and 20th centuries. It has also been suggested that the name derives from the French jeu-trompe meaning 'toy ...