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early music: Music of the European past, as well as its twentieth-century revivals.

electromechanical instruments: Electrophones, such as the Hawaiian steel guitar, whose vibrations are produced mechanically and transformed into electric oscillations which are amplified and reproduced by electric speakers.

electrophones: Instruments which produce sound using electricity. One of the five main classes of instruments in the Sachs-Hornbostel system, subdivided into electromechanical instruments, radioelectric instruments and more recently digital electronic instruments.

engergari: A group of celebratory Ethiopian Christian chants, one of which is the Christmas chant, Yome fesseha kone.

English ballad: A ballad which commemorates important historical events and memorable individuals in British history; often based on texts from broadsides.

enka: An important genre of popular song with melodramatic themes of love used in Japanese karaoke.

ensemble: A group of instruments or musicians who perform together. Some examples are the bat·, chamber music, conjunto, gamelan, mariachi, pipe band and Western orchestra ensembles. There are innumerable performing ensembles such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Moe Family.

Ethiopia: A country in the horn of East Africa. See also dabtara, Geëez and zema.

Ethiopian Christian chant: The music of the Ethiopian Christian liturgy. See also chant (zema).

ethnic recording: Targeted for a particular subgroup united by shared national, linguistic, racial, and/or religious background (Gronow 1992: 12), ethnic recordings were distributed in the U.S. on 78 RPM records between 1900 and 1950.

ethnomusicology: A field of study that joins the concerns and methods of anthropology with the study of music.

ezengileer: Literally, "stirrup, a type of khoomii which has a rhythmic pulsing said to reflect its roots in being sung while riding a horse.