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trikitixa — dance and music from the Basque Country; triki-traka — walk rhythmically; trikun-trakuntza — gipsy con; tringili-trangala — rattle; trinka-trinka — press too much; triska-traskatu — fight tooth and nail; trisket — doorknocker; trist — instant; truskul — man with a malformation who walks clumsily, running into people
An ideophone is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property. The class of ideophones is the least common syntactic category cross-linguistically; it occurs mostly in African, Australian, and Amerindian languages , and sporadically elsewhere.
Castanets are commonly used in several Spanish folk music and dances, such as the Jota, a music/dance probably originated in Aragón, and the Fandango.It spread, partly with these genres, throughout Central Spain/Castile, and Southern parts of Spain.
Electrophones are instruments in which sound is generated by electrical means. While it is not officially in any published form of the Hornbostel–Sachs system, and hence, lacking proper numerical subdivisions, it is often considered a fifth main category.
121.1 Clack idiophones - The lamella is carved in the surface of a fruit shell, which serves as resonator. Cricri; 121.2 Guimbardes and Jaw harps - The lamella is mounted in a rod- or plaque-shaped frame and depends on the player's mouth cavity for resonance.
It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: List of dance style categories
Set of bell plates, range C2–E4, a struck idiophone (played with mallets) or friction idiophone (bowed) Claves (foreground), a struck idiophone. An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).
Rattle from Papua New Guinea, made from leaves, seeds and coconut shell, to be tied around a dancer's ankle Maracas from Mexico Rattles from Pompeii.. A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.