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zema: Ethiopian Christian chant:
the music
of the Ethiopian
Christian liturgy.
Ziporyn,
Evan: Composer and performer of avant-garde music
and long-time director of the Balinese gamelan
ensemble in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
zithers: Chordophones
without a neck or yoke and whose strings are stretched parallel to the
soundboard.
zydeco: Dance music
that emerged in the 1950s among the Creoles
of the Gulf coast. The name ìzydeco is said to derive from a French expression,
les haricots (literally, ìthe beans), alluding to a metaphor popular
among Creole peoples of color that ìthe beans
are not salty, that is, they are unflavored by expensive salted meat. |