World Music

Catalog description

Credits: 3 Typically Offered: SPRING World Music is a survey course of music, culture, and people from across the non-Western world. The course explores the fundamental aspects of music including pitch, harmony, rhythm, meter, texture, and timbre as found in Indigenous, folk and popular music from the non-Western world. Music from many countries and cultures will be studied including: Native America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Centralasia, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Caribbean. A background in music is not required.