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Labanotation: Rudolf Labanís system of dance notation which uses ideograms to represent dance motion in great detail.


Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Famous South African vocal ensemble that continues to spread the mbube musical form.


lahan: The term for tune in Arab music theory, and for the melody to which a Middle Eastern Jewish pizmon is sung.


lament: A song of mourning.


ěThe Lark": See Hibari Misora.


layali: In Arab vocal music, an improvisation that introduces a song and which serves to establish the maqam used in the rest of the piece.


les haricots: See Zydeco.


Liguria: A region along the northwestern Italian coast.


Lisbon: The capital of Portugal.


liturgy: The context of a religious ritual.


Lomax, Alan: Ethnomusicologist who recorded an enormous number of American folk songs with his father, John Lomax and later launched the ěcantometrics and ěchoreometrics projects to study the meaning of music and dance on a worldwide basis.


lullaby: A song sung to babies and small children to help them fall asleep.


lutes: Chordophones with strings stretched along a neck and body, such as the ëud, ukulele and guitar


lyres: Chordophones whose strings are stretched over a soundboard and attached to a crossbar which spans the top of a yoke.