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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.