Survey Of World Music

Music is a listener's art and this course concerns itself with just that: learning to listen. We will find ways to better understand and listen to many pieces and styles of music. Survey of World Music is a course designed to help you learn and better understand the skills required to hear music from varying places, times and cultures from around the world. The goal of the course is to provide the student a basic vocabulary of music, to teach musical and cultural literacy by examining a number of styles and traditions, to sharpen listening and critical skills, and to develop the ability to present ideas about music in writing.

Lessons

PART I & II: Introduction to Listening Rhythm

Lesson 1          Active Listening, Elements of Music, 
                        Music in Society

Lesson 2          Our Response to Music - Reggae

Lesson 3          Beat, Accent, and Tempo - Native American

Lesson 4          Meter - Klezmer Music

Lesson 5          Polyrhythm - West African Music

TEST 1

PART III & IV: Melody and Harmony

Lesson 6          Vocal Music - Gregorian Chant

Lesson 7          Instrumental Music - Indian Classical Music

Lesson 8          Vocal Melody in Opera - Japanese Noh and 
                         Kabuki

Lesson 9          Harmony and Harmonizing - Folk Music

TEST 2

PART V & VI: Dynamics, Timbre,Texture, Form

Lesson 10        The Balinese Gamelan                                   

Lesson 11        Sectional Forms: Jazz/Binary, 

                        Ternary, Sonata - Music of the Andes

Lesson 12        Continuous Forms - Sufi Qawwali Music

TEST 3