world sound cultures

ALVES Music of The Peoples of The World TEXTBOOK WEBSITE. I recommend that students download, install and use the Listening Guides. For music readers, there are transcriptions of some of the examples available on the website.

Concert Reviews - instructions

Concert recommendations

A list of SF Bay Area concerts that would be appropriate and recommended for this class.

Various Bay Area Flamenco events: http://www.sfflamenco.com/pages/nightlife.html

The San Francisco-based group Melody of China lists its performances on this calendar.

GENERAL –

Elements of music (pitch, rhythm, meter, timbre, etc. . . all in the textbook, but here is a condensed presentation of this basic info)

Components of a sound culture (generic outline)

These outlines, found under each subject region, are methodically suspect in terms of proper ethnomusicological approaches, in that they apply a single cookie-cutter format to diverse societies. For example, the first entry in the outline is about pitch, something that reveals a Euro-centric frame of mind. These sins being now confessed, please consult these outlines as a way of organizing the diverse facts of music and society as presented in class.

Perspectives on ethnomusicology: Steven Feld & the Kaluli – Feld’s questions

Interesting supplemental websites:

The Virtual Instrument Museum (http://learningobjects_devel.wesleyan.edu/vim/has a selection of excellent instrument sounds and images, but is as yet frustratingly incomplete.)

rev. Aug 2007

David Meckler

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