Write your responses to the short-answer questions below. You will be researching and explaining the connections and commonalities among the Persian setar, North Indian sitar, and Western guitar based on your own critical, objective thinking and supported by your own online research in order to answer these questions. You will need to find and cite at least one source for each instrument.
What evidence can you provide for why the word for these instruments in the Middle East, the setar, is spelled similarly to a chordophone from North India, the sitar? (3 pts)
What does the Western guitar have in common with both the setar and sitar? (3 pts)
How does this mini-research exercise influence your thinking about the origin of music instrument types? (3 pts)
Source citation (at least 3). (1 pt)
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