MUS 239 Introduction to World Music

1. MUS 239Introduction to World Music M, W, F 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. Ellis Hall Room 226 Instructor: Dr. John Prescott Office: HHPA 309 Office Hours: T.B.A. Phone: 836-5748 Email: johnprescott@missouristate.edu Course Web Site: www.faculty.missouristate/edu/j/jsp304f Introduction to World Music, SMSU

2. 18 January 2006 • Distribution of Syllabus • Class Overview • Student/Teacher Course Expectations • …text… (next page) Introduction to World Music, SMSU

3. Text Titon, Jeff, ed. Worlds of Music, An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples. Shorter Version/Second edition. Belmont, California: Schirmer/Thomson Learning, 2005. http://www.wadsworth.com/music Introduction to World Music, SMSU

4. Reading Assignmentfor Week One • Chapter 1 • What are the four components of a Music-Culture? • Can you hear and feel the metrical rhythm in the pieces you are listening to? • Chapter 9 • What type of music do YOU want to learn about? Introduction to World Music, SMSU

5. MUS 239Introduction to World Music Chapter 1: The Music-Culture as a World of Music Introduction to World Music, SMSU

6. What is music? • Soundscape: characteristic sounds of a place • In general, music is sound that is humanly organized. • Sometimes it’s not easy to separate sound and music. Introduction to World Music, SMSU

7. Patterns in Music • Rhythm & Meter • Metrical rhythm: rhythm with recurring accent pattern • Melody • Principal tune made of a succession of tones in particular rhythm • Harmony • Accompaniment to a melody • Form • Structural arrangement of musical ideas Introduction to World Music, SMSU

8. Harmony; Four Kinds • Monophonic (distinct single melody) • Homophonic (single melody with accompanying harmony) • Polyphonic (more than one melody) • Heterophonic (single melody but each instrument plays it differently) Introduction to World Music, SMSU

9. Ways of Looking at Musical Instruments: Classification • (Sachs-Hornbostel Instrument Classification) • Idiophone • Membranophone • Chordophone • Aerophone • (Electrophone) Introduction to World Music, SMSU

10. Idiophone: examples a percussion instrument, for example a gong or xylophone, that is made from resonating material that does not have to be tuned Introduction to World Music, SMSU

11. Membranophones: examples instruments that make sounds when a stretched skin (membrane) vibrates Introduction to World Music, SMSU

12. Chordophone: examples a stringed instrument Introduction to World Music, SMSU

13. Aerophones: examples A wind instrument; noise is made by pushing air through a tube. Introduction to World Music, SMSU

14. Lines are not always easy to draw • There are hybrids such as tambourines or kazoo; distinctions can be fuzzy • Greater interest now in insider’s words, context, style. Introduction to World Music, SMSU

15. Ways of Looking at the Cultural Elements that Surround and Give Meaning to Music Four Components of a Music Culture • Ideas about music • Activities involving music • Repertories of music • Material culture of music Introduction to World Music, SMSU

16. First: Ideas About Music • Music and the Belief System • Aesthetics of Music • Contexts for Music • History of Music Introduction to World Music, SMSU

17. Second: Activities Involving Music • Basic aspects of social organization • Status and role • Other considerations Introduction to World Music, SMSU

18. Third: Repertories of Music • Definition: stock of ready performances • Style; combined elements • Genres • Texts • Composition • Transmission • Movement Introduction to World Music, SMSU

19. Fourth: Material Culture of Music • Material objects that a culture produces, such as • Musical instruments • Paintings, documents, art • Scores, books, sheet music, books • Impact of mass media Introduction to World Music, SMSU

20. Worlds of Music, General Comments • Co-existent musics in most communities; music-cultures are dynamic rather than static; rarely “dies out; ” world is a fluid, interactive, overlapping soundscape • Changes occur to meet expressive and emotional desires • Ethnocentrism is generally not a positive element in the study of world musics Introduction to World Music, SMSU

21. Discovering and Documenting a World of Music Some Organizing Principles: • Family • Generation & Gender • Leisure • Religion • Ethnicity • Regionalism • Nationalism • Commercial Music Introduction to World Music, SMSU

22. Subject Options • Chart the music you hear daily (journal, recordings, mappings, etc.) • Examine music in your own background • Explore music in your community • Individual musician Introduction to World Music, SMSU

23. Research, Documentation & Reporting:some things to consider • Gaining Entry • Library & Internet Research • Participation and Observation • Ethics • Gain permission • Honesty • Field Gear • Interviewing (open questions, not leading) • Sharing the information (Report) Introduction to World Music, SMSU

24. Homework • Project Proposals • Assignment No. 1 • Online quiz on chapter 1, sent to my email by Monday, January 23, 5:00 PM. • Your answers to questions 3, 11, 17, on pp. 29-30, and question 5 on p. 339, due in class Friday, January 27. • Read Chapter 2: North America/Native America Introduction to World Music, SMSU