Traditional opera, often referred to as " number opera ", consists of two modes of singing: recitative, the plot-driving passages sung in a style designed to imitate and emphasize the inflections of speech, and aria ( an " air " or formal song ) in which the characters express their emotions in a more structured melodic style.

Traditional Minangkabau music includes saluang jo dendang which consists of singing to the accompaniment of a saluang bamboo flute, and talempong gong-chime music.

Traditional Melanesian choir singing features heavily in the soundtrack of the film The Thin Red Line, which is set against the backdrop of the Battle for Guadalcanal.

Traditional Inuit music, the music of the Inuit, has been based around drums used in dance music as far back as can be known, and a vocal style called katajjaq ( Inuit throat singing ) has become of interest in Canada and abroad.

Traditional folk rituals include groups of young men and women singing ritual songs to each other.

* Traditional Sephardi singing of Yah Ribbon Olam

* Traditional Sephardi singing of Yoducha Rayonay

* Traditional Sephardi singing of Yom Zeh M ' chubad

Traditional music from the island consists of choral singing and chanting, similar to Tahitian music.

Traditional Navajo music is always vocal, with most instruments, which include drums, drumsticks, rattles, rasp, flute, whistle, and bullroarer, being used to accompany singing of specific types of song ( Frisbie and McAllester 1992 ).

His many interests included Irish Traditional singing and he even provided the notes for an album entitled " Ireland Her Own " ( Topic Records, 1967 ), recorded by two former IRA volunteers-Paddy Tunney and Arthur Kearney-who had been imprisoned with him in the Crumlin Road Gaol in the 1940s.

Traditional accounts tell of several esoteric sadhanas that he performed, including standing neck-deep in the river Ganges, singing songs to Kali.

Traditional Scottish Gaelic psalm singing, or " precenting the line " as it is correctly known, in which the psalms are called out and the congregation sings a response, was the earliest form of congregational singing adopted by Africans in America.

Traditional dances are generally accompanied by the drumming of the pate.

Traditional songs related to topics such as wine and the mountains are accompanied by dances and the music of traditional instruments such as leather drums.

Traditional dances in Doha are performed on Friday afternoons ; one such dance is the Ardah, a stylized martial dance performed by two rows of dancers who are accompanied by an array of percussion instruments, including al-ras ( a large drum whose leather is heated by an open fire ), tambourine and cymbals, along with small drums.

Traditional Kabylian music consists of vocalists accompanied by a rhythm section, consisting of t ' bel ( tambourine ) and bendir ( frame drum ), and a melody section, consisting of a ghaita ( bagpipe ) and ajouag ( flute ).

Traditional Faroese music was primarily vocal, and was not accompanied by musical instruments.

Traditional African cuisine in most of Africa is characterized by use of starch as a focus, accompanied by stew containing meat or vegetables, or both.

Traditional foods are accompanied by wines from Chiclana.

A Symphony of Lights ( Traditional Chinese: 幻彩詠香江 ) is a synchronised building exterior decorative light and laser multimedia display, featuring 44 buildings on both sides of the Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong accompanied by music.

Traditional music is well represented by many Aurassian singers.

Traditional printed sources are subtitled by the ' epoch year, which refers to the positions of celestial objects at a given time to the nearest year ( e. g., J2005, J2007 ).

* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

Traditional survey methods of measurement and calculation have been replaced by inertial orientation and navigators and GPS.

Traditional bundle theory, according to Professor Dustin Moriarty, explains the compresence of properties by defining an object as a collection of properties bound together.

Traditional bock is a sweet, relatively strong ( 6. 3 %– 7. 2 % by volume ), lightly hopped ( 20-27 IBUs ) lager.

Traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM ) is based on Yinyangism ( i. e., the combination of Five Phases theory with Yin-yang theory ), which was later absorbed by Daoism.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, good health is believed to be achieved by a balance between yin and yang.

Another schism in the Conservative ranks, this time from the movement's right wing, would come when a number of the traditionalist Rabbis led by JTS Talmudics professor David Weiss Halivni split from the United Synagogue to form the Union for Traditional Judaism.

Traditional plant photosynthesis has terraformed the atmosphere by sequestering carbon from carbon dioxide, increasing the proportion of molecular oxygen, and by participating in the nitrogen cycle.

Critical theory was first defined by Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School of sociology in his 1937 essay Traditional and Critical Theory: Critical theory is a social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding or explaining it.

Traditional chiropractic assumes that a vertebral subluxation interferes with the body's innate intelligence, a vitalistic notion ridiculed by the scientific and healthcare communities.

Traditional encyclopedias are written by a number of employed text writers, usually people with an academic degree, and distributed as proprietary content.

* A multi-edition transcription of Playford's The Dancing Master, compiled by Robert M. Keller, hosted by the University of New Hampshire's New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music & Dance.

Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers.

* 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

Traditional DNA sequencing techniques such as Maxam-Gilbert or Sanger methods used polyacrylamide gels to separate DNA fragments differing by a single base-pair in length so the sequence could be read.

Gardnerian Wicca and other forms of British Traditional Wicca operate as an initiatory mystery cult ; membership is gained only through initiation by a Wiccan High Priestess or High Priest.

Traditional wet curing requires immersing the ham in a brine for an extended period, often followed by light smoking.

The different script systems resulting from the preservation or simplication of original pre-Republic Chinese characters are used by Chinese people living under different jurisdictions: " Simplified Chinese " in Mainland China ( the People's Republic of China ), " Traditional Chinese " in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and " Proper Chinese " ( which is the same script as " Traditional Chinese ") in Taiwan ( the Republic of China ).

Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew, whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew forever.