Be sure to read the indicated sections in your textbook, as well as view the PowerPoint slideshows, and especially listen to the YouTube examples on the slideshows.

1. Know some very basic facts about the country of Indonesia. Where and what is it, both geographically and politically?
2. What is a Gamelan (What exactly does the word mean)? What sorts of instruments are included in a gamelan, and what are the primary instruments, i.e., the Gongs, made of? What instrument is the Saron and what is its primary function?
3. How are instruments tuned, especially with regard to one another, and what is the relationship of all the instruments in a particular gamelan to one another?
4. What does a Gamelan sound like in performance? What is Colotomy or Colotomic structure, and how do you hear it?
5. What is the Balungen or the Nuclear Melody (also called the Skeletal Melody in the textbook), and how do you hear it?
6. What are the elaborating Instruments and what sorts of parts do they play? What are Interlocking Parts and who plays them? What instrument directs and controls the performance, e.g., determining tempos, giving cues to other instruments, etc.?
7. Read your textbook, pp. 431-433, and know the CD example for Listening Guide 53.

1. Know some very basic facts about the country/region of India. Where is it, and how large is it? What are its neighboring countries?
2. How is Indian music preserved, passed down, and taught? What do the terms Ustad and Guru mean and what signficance do they have in Indian music?
3. What are some of the most important musical instruments used in India? In general, to what familes do each of these instruments belong, how is each constructed, and how is each played? You should especially know the Sitar, Sarod, Tabla, Tampura, Vina, Pakhavaj, Mridangam, and Harmonium.
4. What is a Raga? How do Indians define a Raga, i.e., what are the things that make each Raga unique? What western concept is similar to "raga," but is not quite the same (and what are some of the differences)? How does the Indian system divide the octave and how does that affect the way Indian music sounds to most westerners? How does a performer learn a raga? Know terms like Sa, Ma, and Pa.
5. What is a Tal(a) (or Tala)? What element of a composition or performance does it control? What western concept is similar to tal, but is not quite the same (and what are the differences)? How do Indian musicians and audiences sometimes keep track of the Tal? What is Teental (or Tintal)? What is a Bol and how is it used? Know terms like Matra, Vibhag, Tali, Khali, Sam, and Avartan.
6. What is the general manner in which classical Indian music is performed? How do pieces begin, what happens next, and so on? How do the various performers relate to one another when they are playing, i.e., what is each doing and how does that contribute to the whole? Know terms like: Alap, Jor, Jhala, and Gat.
7. Read your textbook, pp. 112-113, and also see the picture on p. 50.

1. What is Sub-Saharan Africa and how uniform is this region? What is the geography like, and how are the various countries throughout this region defined (how were their boundaries drawn)? Why is Northern Africa not considered part of this region?
2. What about the people of Sub-Saharan Africa? How uniform or diverse are the cultures of this continent, and how uniform might the culture of a single country in this region be? What role did European colonialism play in all of this?
3. What are some of the most important basic traits common to most African musics, i.e., what elements are similar or treated in a similar fashion in the majority of African musics? What sorts of instruments, textures, amd structural techniques are favored by many African cultures? How important are such elements and techniques as ostinato, interlocking parts, improvisation, call and response, etc.?
4. Who are the Shona, where and how do they live, and what is their belief system like? What is a Bira and how is music a part of this ceremony? What is a Mbira, how is it played, and what does it sound like?
5. Why are drums important in the cultures of Ghana (notably the Ewe and Yoruba tribes) and other countries of the West African Coast? How does the organization of drumming ensembles reflect social values of the region? How is this music made and what does it sound like? What are the large talking drums, and what is their function in the drum ensemble? What is the function of a time-line instrument?
6. How do musicians like King Sunny Adé, Fela Kuti and others mix elements of traditional Yoruba culture with Western music to form genres like Juju and Afrobeat?
7. Read your textbook, pp. 459-60, for a very brief mention of Africa, and also see the pictureon p. 38