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Exploring the Global Perspective of Music - series
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Texture
From learner.org, produced by Annenberg Media
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The way different voices and instruments work together to produce the overall sound gives music its texture. This program examines texture in Japanese shakuhachi, Trinidadian steel band, Bosnian ganga, West African percussion, and modern Australian c...horal music. (26:41)
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April 22, 2011 at 12:15 AM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Melody
From learner.org, produced by Annenberg Media
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Melody — the part of music we most often remember — is examined here both scientifically and poetically, from a strict sequence of pitches to a group of notes "in love with each other." We see and hear melodies shaped, elaborated, and developed withi...n Western classical music, the Arabic maqam tradition, Irish dance music and sean-nós singing, and Indian raga. (26:30)
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April 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Form — the way music is organized and structured from beginning to end — guides composers, performers, and listeners in all musics. Here, the traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of tradition...al Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form. (Form — the way music is organized and structured from beginning to end — guides composers, performers, and listeners in all musics. Here, the traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form. (26:41)
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April 22, 2011 at 01:07 AM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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The tone color of music — or "timbre," as we call it in the Western tradition — is influenced by both technical and aesthetic factors. This program examines the creation and effects of timbre in jazz and Indian, West African, Irish, Bosnian, Indonesi...an gamelan, and Japanese musics. (26:42)
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April 21, 2011 at 11:45 PM
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Ages: 13 - 18
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Rhythm
From learner.org, produced by Annenberg Media
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Marking time and moving through our bodies, rhythm has a special relationship to both musical form and worldwide dance traditions. How rhythm structures music is examined through the American marching band, North Indian tala, Japanese shakuhachi trad...ition, West African drumming, and Afro-Cuban dance music. (26:42)
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April 21, 2011 at 10:47 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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How are a composer and an improvisor alike? How are they different? The marriage between fixed elements and new variation is examined in American rock, Indian raga, classical and contemporary Western music, jazz, and Arabic classical music. (26:42)
April 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM
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Ages: 12 - 18
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What do different cultures mean by music? This program explores the definition of music from the sine wave to poetic metaphor, and the impact of the cultural environment on music as different as Bosnian ganga and becarac singing; Tuvan throat singing...; Irish, West African, Trinidadian, and Japanese musics; and Western chamber music, jazz, and rock. (26:30)
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April 20, 2011 at 11:34 PM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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How we learn musical traditions and how we maintain, modify, notate, teach, and perform them for a new, younger audience are exemplified here in Indian classical music, African village drumming, and modern jazz and gospel. (26:42)
April 21, 2011 at 12:44 AM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Harmony
From learner.org, produced by Annenberg Media
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When two or more notes sound together, harmony occurs. This interaction of pitches, understood in vastly different ways around the world, is analyzed here in jazz, chamber music, Bosnian ganga singing, early music plainchants, and barbershop quartets.... (26:42)
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April 22, 2011 at 12:20 AM
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Ages: 14 - 18
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Music can inspire religious devotion, prepare individuals for war, motivate work, enrich play, and stimulate the passions. The musical healing ceremonies of the Kung people in Namibia and Botswana, Epirote music in traditional Greek weddings, and mod...ern rock, gospel, and folk musics all reveal music's power to transform lives. (26:42)
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April 20, 2011 at 11:59 PM
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