Dorze polyphonic singing ( edho) may employ up to five parts Majangir, four parts. In certain southern areas, some music is polyphonic. Music in the Ethiopian highlands is generally monophonic or heterophonic. When played on traditional instruments, these modes are generally not tempered (that is, the pitches may deviate slightly from the Western-tempered tuning system), but when played on Western instruments such as pianos and guitars, they are played using the Western-tempered tuning system. Some songs take the name of their qenet, such as tizita, a song of reminiscence. Three additional modes are variations on the above: tezeta minor, bati major, and bati minor. The music of the Ethiopian Highlands uses a fundamental modal system called qenet, of which there are four main modes: tezeta, bati, ambassel, and anchihoy. Ethiopian music is a term that can mean any music of Ethiopian origin, however, often it is applied to a genre, a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.
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