Reading Rocks Log #3: World Music
Find the rhythm of a good book and color in a world music instrument for each book or 15
minutes you read. Return log to teacher for next music reading log.
LUTE
DIDGERIDOO
BOWL LYRE
HALF TUBE ZITHER
PANPIPES
BAGPIPES
THUMB PIANO
MARIMBA
ALPHORN
ACCORDION
Reading Rocks Log #3: World Music
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Teacher:________________________
Capitol Hill Cluster School Winter Reading Incentive Program Dec 2014-March 2015
Read to the BEAT of a great book... and read your way from one music genre to the next.
Reading logs in order: #1 Pop Radio #2 Classical #3 World Music #4 Blues #5 Rock and Roll
#6 Motown #7Country & Folk #8 Jazz #9 Hip Hop
World Music Instruments
• LUTE - any pear-shaped, plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep, round back; the lute is
the descendent of the Arabic oud, which traveled into Europe during the time of the Crusades. The
modern Near-Eastern oud is played in Greece, Turkey, Afghanistan and most Arabic countries.
• DIDGERIDOO - a wind instrument that was developed by indigenous Australians of northern
Australia around 1,500 years ago and is used not only in Australia but other parts of the world. It is
sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet.
• BOWL LYRE - The lyre is a string instrument that is best known for its use in Greek classical
antiquity. The strings are attached to a yoke which lies in the same plane as the sound-table. In
Uganda, the Kiganda bowl lyre is called an “endongo” and is the national instrument. The face of
the bowl is covered with the skin of a monitor lizard or ant lizard.
• HALF-TUBE ZITHER - Known as “zheng” in China, this zither has 18 or more strings that are
plucked by picks made from the shells of a Hawksbill turtle. While the strings were once made of
silk, today they are almost always metal-nylon. One usually plucks with the right hand with four
picks attached to the fingers although advanced players may use picks attached to both hands.
• PANPIPES - Known as the national instrument of Ecuador, the “rondador” is a set of chorded cane
panpipes that produces two tones simultaneously. The pieces of cane are placed side by side in
order of size. One plays by blowing across the top of the instrument.
• MARIMBA - a common percussion instrument originating in Mexico, the marimba consists of a set
of wooden bars struck with mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators attached to the bars
amplify their sound.
• BAGPIPES - In the “aerophone” class of musical instruments, bagpipes use enclosed reeds that
are fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. While most Americans are familiar with
the Scottish and Irish bagpipes, although bagpipes have been and continue to be played throughout
much of Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Persian Gulf and Northern Africa.
• ALPHORN - An alphorn is a long wooden horn that was originally used for communication in
Switzerland and other mountainous regions of Europe. It is carved from a solid piece of soft wood,
often spruce or pine, and has a conical-shaped bore.
• THUMB PIANO (mbira) - The national instrument of Zimbabwe, the mbira (thumb piano) is an
African musical instrument made of a wooden board with attached staggered metal tines played by
holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the the tines with the thumbs.
• ACCORDION - The accordion is in a family of box-shaped musical instruments and is played by
compressing or expanding the bellows while pressing buttons or keys, causing valves to open,
which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel, called reeds, that vibrate to produce sound
inside the body. It is widely spread across the world from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to North
America and Europe.