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Full-Text Articles in Ethnomusicology
Lesson Plan: What Is Mei?, Jennifer Jolley
Lesson Plan: What Is Mei?, Jennifer Jolley
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This lesson plan provides background on the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and the process for converting digital .wav files from the Deborah Pacini Hernandez Bachata Music Collection housed at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute to .mei using the application Sonic Visualizer.
Msh 115 - World Music Writing Intensive, Margaret Farrell
Msh 115 - World Music Writing Intensive, Margaret Farrell
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This syllabus guided our exploration of music around the globe. In this writing intensive section, music served as a means to internalize information through writing as well as inspiration for developing a clear and persuasive writing style. Our investigations included consideration the forms of the music as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
Msh 115 World Music Syllabus, Smee Wang
Msh 115 World Music Syllabus, Smee Wang
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This course is designed to explore various musical culture in the world. I will introduce ethnic instruments and the distinguishing features, as well as the history and development. This course will cover traditional music and popular music of each region. It offers a general knowledge of non-western music, people and their unique culture. Students will gain a better understanding and appreciation of world music.
Neighborhood Soundwalk, Sarah Politz
Neighborhood Soundwalk, Sarah Politz
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This is an assignment for undergraduate students that asks them to go out into their environment and record their observations from listening in a focused way. It uses the work and writings of composer Hildegard Westerkampf as a jumping off point.
Song Analysis - Final Project For The American Musical Experience, Agustina Checa
Song Analysis - Final Project For The American Musical Experience, Agustina Checa
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Assignment designed as a final project for the undergraduate course MSH245: The American Musical Experience at Lehman College. This course surveys different musical expressions that emerged in the United States as well as the historical, social and technological contexts framing their popularization.This assignment asks students to analyze a song of their choosing performed by an American artist and to follow specific requirements in their study of this piece which include: historical and social contextualization, analysis of style, influences and lyrics, as well as the elaboration of a "listening guide" to fully appreciate the composition. Students are given the …
Intro To Jazz, Jon De Lucia
Intro To Jazz, Jon De Lucia
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OER Based Syllabus for MUS 145 Intro to Jazz course at City College. Covers the history and development of jazz along with basic music fundamental vocabulary.
Introduction To World Music, Antoni Piza
Introduction To World Music, Antoni Piza
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MUS102 Syllabus & weekly course schedule
What Is Jazz?: Exploring The Question, Dominick Tancredi
What Is Jazz?: Exploring The Question, Dominick Tancredi
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This writing assignment begins a semester-long exploration addressing the question “What Is Jazz?” Being introduced by film to two New Orleans jazz musicians, George “Kid Sheik” Colar (1908-1996) and Emanuel “Manny” Sayles (1907-1986), students will get a firsthand perspective of the various levels of commitment to the music these two individuals maintained as working musicians. They dedicated themselves professionally, personally, emotionally, and spiritually. They took inspiration from their life experiences. The films convey the message that jazz goes beyond the notes we hear.