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war dance: A Native American dance performed by men. See fancy war dance.

Washakie, Chief: The leader who established the Shoshone Wind River Reservation. See also Ft. Washakie.

washboard: See rubboard.

The Weavers: A 1950s folk music group that helped internationalize the folk music revival.

Western classical music: The varied musical styles and practices derived from elite European and American musics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. See also classical.

Western harmonic system: See harmony.

Western music: Most broadly, music which is found in the Western hemisphere ó and thus by the twenty-first century, all of the musics discussed in Soundscapes. However, Western music is often used as a synonym for musics of Euro-American origins, especially Western classical music.

Western orchestra: The major instrumental ensemble of Western classical music from the late eighteenth century to the present. Commonly consists of bowed chordophones with the addition of aerophones, idiophones and membranophones.

The Wheat Song: A famous film song by composer ëAbd al-Wahhab, the melody of which is borrowed for pizmon Ramah Everai.

whole tone: The interval made of two semitones in Western classical music. There are six whole tones in an octave.

Wimoweh: Prototypical mbube song as transformed in Western popular and folk music.

wind instruments: Aerophones such as trumpets, flutes and reeds which rely on the vibration of an enclosed column of air to determine their pitch and quality.

Wind River Reservation: The Shoshone reservation founded in 1868 and located near Landers in central Wyoming.

Wind River Shoshone: The division of the Shoshone Nation living in the Wind River Reservation.

Windha, Nyoman: Balinese composer of Kembang Pencak for gamelan, male dancers and singer. Evan Ziporyn used Kembang Pencak as the basis for his 1990 composition, Kekembangan.

World Music: A cover term for a variety of musical styles from around the globe, increasingly referring to world pop.