| World Music ________________________________________________________________________________ World Music MU254 (undergraduate registration) MU654 (graduate registration) Fall Semester 2008 Credits: MU254: 2 credits, MU554: 1 credit Prerequisites: 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 |
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