Chapter2: Chapter 2: Thinking About Instruments

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Chapter2: Thinking about Instruments • When people design and craft instruments, they both showing their culture and value and create musical instruments by their value. • Instruments are items to express people’s culture, work of art, and symbol. • China, the eight sounds: metal, stone, skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, and earth. • An instrument on which a vibrating membrane produces sound is a membranophone. • The West African Igbo provide two conjunct systems for categorizing their musical instrument: according to the sounding material or the technique of the sound. • Some instruments transmit meaning to a knowledgeable group of people. • Some musical instruments are accorded sexual associations. • Ideas about gender sometimes dictate

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