Course Description. This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is performed, through studying selected musical traditions from around the world. Specific case studies will be examined closely through listening, analysis, and hands-on instruction.
Designed for the general student, this course serves as an introduction to music and musical practices around the world. This course addresses the challenge of listening to unfamiliar sounds as “music” and explores the relationship between music and society. This course fulfills the Core Curriculum requirement in Cultural Perspectives.
The World Music chapter of this course is designed to help you plan and teach the various facets and dimensions of international music in your classroom. The …
This can not only help create new opportunities for music making, but it can make that music making more enjoyable and in many instances, more ethical. 3. Transferable skills. Ethnomusicology courses teach students skills such as research, critical thinking, and writing that are entirely applicable and even necessary for most other careers.
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This course explores the ways that music is both shaped by and gives shape to the cultural settings in which it is performed, through studying selected musical traditions from around the world. Specific case studies will be examined closely through listening, analysis, and hands-on instruction.
George Ruckert. 21M.030 Introduction to World Music. Fall 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.
The World Music chapter of this course is designed to help you plan and teach the various facets and dimensions of international music in your classroom. The video lessons, quizzes and transcripts can easily be adapted to provide your lesson plans with engaging and dynamic educational content.
In this lesson, you will explore the musical traditions of East Asia and discover the musical scales, characteristics, and instruments of this regions. Then, test your understanding with a brief quiz.
West Asia is one of the oldest continually inhabited regions in the world, and it has rich musical traditions. Explore the defining characteristics of West Asian music in this lesson, and then test your understanding with a brief quiz.
In this lesson, explore the musical traditions of West Africa and discover how rhythms and melodies interact to create a complex song structure. Then, test your understanding with a brief quiz.
In this lesson, you will explore the musical traditions of Eastern Europe, and discover common traits in the meters, modes, instruments, and other characteristics. Then, test your understanding with a brief quiz.
Latin music is becoming more and more popular in the United States and it's really not hard to see or hear why. Explore the basic traits of Latin music and test your understanding with a brief quiz.
Oceania is full of various musical traditions. In this lesson, explore the distinct musical styles of Polynesia and Australia, and test your understanding with a brief quiz.
In the flash and color and familiarity of the modern it is easy to forget that South Asia—India , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and several smaller countries—is home to one of the world’s most ancient civilizations. History, Culture, and Music The facts about India are staggering.
The greatest of the kingdoms provided royal patronage to the arts. The massive technical book of theater, music, and dance, the Natya Sastra (perhaps as early as 200 B.C.E.), describes performance, theory, and professional training in great detail.
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Dissonance- tension in sound; unstable tone combination which demands onward motion to a stable chord Consonance- relaxed sound; stable tone combination which indicates a point of rest Concerto- soloist and orchestra Cadenza- solo spot within a concerto Nationalism- homeland; expressed when romantic composers deliberately created music with a national identity using the folk songs, dances, legends and history of their homelands (e.g.