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Gaelic: The language associated with Celtic culture. Its three modern dialects are Irish Gaelic, Manx and Scots Gaelic.

gamelan: A large Indonesian ensemble consisting mainly of metallophones. Gamelans differ in their instruments and musical systems, with substantial differences between Javanese and Balinese gamelan.

Gardel, Carlos: An early twentieth-century singer who internationalized the tango by moving it from the barrio of Buenos Aires to Paris.

Garvey, Marcus: Jamaican founder of the "Back to Africa movement in the late 1920s.

gaucho: The Argentinian equivalent of a "cowboy.

Ge'ez: The most important of three categories of mode in Ethiopian Christian ritual music. Also the name of the Ethiopian Christian liturgical language.

genre: A "type or "kind.

ghost dance religion: Indigenous Native American religion with associated ceremonial dances.

giddha: A dance performed by Punjabi women and equivalent to the all-male bhangra.

glide: A slide between pitches.

glissando: A musical gesture which entails sliding from one pitch to another.

gong kebyar: The Balinese gamelan most often heard in modern concerts, known particularly for its shimmering sound and interlocking parts (kotekan).

Government Center: Built in 1963 on what was previously known as Scollay Square, Government Center is a complex that includes Boston City Hall and a large multi-functional, concrete plaza which hosts celebrations important to varied ethnic communities.

grace notes: The addition of one or more notes in slight anticipation of the main pitch.

gracing: The practice of inserting grace notes into bagpipe melodies.

grass dance: Womanís dance in present-day powwow named after the fringed regalia worn in performance.

Great Basin: Inland region of the western United States between theSierra Nevada and the Wasatch Mountains where the Shoshone originated.

Great Highland Bagpipes: See Scottish Highland bagpipes.

grips: A quick ornamental figure of two non-adjacent pitches which serve as grace notes in bagpipe music.

ground: An English term for the slow moving air or melody that is used as the theme in a set of variations.

Guillory, "Queen Ida": Bay Area zydeco singer, songwriter, accordionist and band leader born in South Louisiana.

guitar: A plucked lute which generally has a hollow resonating body with waisted sides. Members of the guitar family include the guitarrûn, Hawaiian steel guitar, ukulele and the vihuela.

guitarrûn: A large, plucked four- or five-string bass lute with an expanded belly. A key instrument in the mariachi ensemble.

Gyuto Tantric Choir: A choir of Tibetan monks from the Gyuto Tantric College in India who sing dbyangs.