World Music

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World Music
MU354
undergraduate registration
MU654
graduate registration
Fall Semester 2010
MU354: 2 credits. Prerequisite: none
MU654: 1 credit. Prerequisite: none
Instructor: James Dalton jdalton@bostonconservatory.edu

Course Objectives
This course provides the means and the vocabulary to understand and discuss non-Western musics of both cultivated and vernacular traditions. Focusing primarily on the various musics of the Asian continent with specific attention paid to performance practices, methods of pedagogy, and the theoretical underpinnings of the music.

Textbooks
Required texts are available online from www.textbookx.com
THINKING MUSICALLY
Bonnie C. Wade
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195136647

MUSIC IN BALI
Lisa Gold
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195141498

MUSIC IN SOUTH INDIA
T. Viswanathan, and Matthew Harp Allen
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195145915

Grading
homework, classwork, quizzes
midterm
final

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