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TEST # 1. ONE WEEK FROM TODAY (26 March 2019) Includes “Music of India” (chapter 6) Includes “Music of Middle East” (chapter 10) Written only (no listening) All “India” and “Arab / Middle East PowerPoints & review sheets posted
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TEST # 1 • ONE WEEK FROM TODAY (26 March 2019) • Includes “Music of India” (chapter 6) • Includes “Music of Middle East” (chapter 10) • Written only (no listening) • All “India” and “Arab / Middle East PowerPoints & review sheets posted • Mix of short answer, brief explanations (use of relevant terminology), basic concepts- YOU WRITE
LISTENING QUIZ # 1 • TUESDAY, 2 April 2019(beginning of class period) • Covers items related to Chapters 2 (India) and 3 (Middle East) [either set] • Things to know:- which culture?- which instruments used?- improvised or pre-composed?- kind of piece (genre)? (from style, events)- evidence of influences?
Titon – Chapter 10 The Arab World(cont’d – last day!)
Popular Music As opposed to “folk” or “traditional” music- commercially oriented- may use traditional elements, but…- draws on modern methods of dissemination “Pan-Islamic” style (my term)- mixes indigenous and western- heard everywhere in Islamic world Examples- Umm Kulthum (Egyptian, 1898-1975)- Delkash (Persian/Iranian, 1924-2004)- Fairuz (Lebanese, b. 1935)
Umm Kulthum (1898-1975) • Egyptian family- Father = Iman- taught Quran (memorized!) • Classic Arab Music (Ud)- trained in Cairo • Popular mixed w/ Classic- radio & motion pictures • Umm Kulthum live; "Enta Omri“ • El Atlal (Concert) - Umm Kulthum
“Delkash” (1924-2004) • Esmat Bagherpour Baboli (home city = Babol) • To Teheran for music study • Radio Iran (1945) • Worked w/ important Traditional Persian musicians • Motion pictures, etc. • Delkash w/ Traditional Persian Ensemble • Delkash : "Yadegare Koudaki" • Delkash : "Delam Mikhast" (w/ Viguen - "King of Iranian Pop")
Fairuz (b. 1935) • Nouhad Wadie' Haddad (b. Beirut) • Eastern Orthodox Christian • Studied @ Lebanese Conservatory • Lebanese Radio w/ Rahbani Bros.- patriotic themes, musicals, etc. • Fairuz : "Îtab" (pan-Arab hit) • Theater, TV/Radio, Motion Pictures • Political figure • Fairuz : "I Love You Lebanon" • Live concerts – world traveler • Fairuz : "Li Beirut" ("To Beirut") • “First Lady of Lebanese Singing”
Tradition! • “the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice” [Dictionary.com] • “a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices” [Dictionary.com] • See Titon, pp. 19-20 and ff. (background)- I. Ideas about music (d. history of music)- II. Activities involving music • “Folk” music and culture (no known “author”)
“Zaffa”(textbook p. 530ff.) • Pre-Wedding march (may pre-date Islam!) • Al Rachad Zaffa El Shamiya (location?) • Moroccan Zaffa Band • Egyptian Zaffa in Paris • Chicago's Best Zaffa Group • Lebanese Wedding in Sydney • Bendir drums, Nafir trumpets, etc. (noise makers) • Cross-cultural events in Arab world (old, new, East, West, etc.) • Cf. Western Shivaree : V's Shivaree , Iris' Shivaree , etc….
TEST # 1 Materials END Here Nothing after this slide will be used on Test # 1 (26 March 2019)
Titon – Chapter 7 Asia / Indonesia
Eruption from Mount SinabungSinabung Lava Dome Collapse and Pyroclastic Flow 2016
Indonesia – some basic facts • World’s largest “Island Country”- 17,000 islands (c. 7,000 inhabited) • Population: over 260,000,000 (# 4 in world) • Largest “Muslim majority” country (87%)- strongly influenced by Hindu, Buddhists, etc. • “Spice Islands” – European trade since 17th C- Dutch East India Co. (1602) • Independence since 1949 • Extreme diversity (over 200 languages, etc.) • “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika” (“out of many, one”)
Dutch Exhibition at1889 Paris World’s Fair From a Dutch magazine describing the “colonial exhibition” at the Paris World’s Fair (1889).
Java Village (“Dutch Settlement”)at Columbian Exposition (2)