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.
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