Description
PREREQUISITE: No Pre-requisite
The World Music course will foster an understanding and appreciation of music from around the world, especially non-Western music. Students will explore the music of the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The music of the many cultures represented by the students on campus will form the nucleus of the music studied. Students will learn how music expresses each group's sociological, historical, and geographical relationship to the music of other cultures. They will recognize and differentiate the ways in which the human voice and traditional instruments express the cultures of people around the world. Representative examples of musical forms and historical periods will be used to teach the students to appreciate that music has expressed the emotions and ideals of humanity in all places at all times.