Music of the World's People

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This course is designed to encourage critical listening by bringing the studentinto direct contact with music of Western and non-Western cultures. It stresses theelements of music-rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, tone color-by studyingand analyzing their juxtapositions, and their total effect on musical forms andstyles of the world. Musical illustrations are analyzed not only in musical termsbut in relation to important historical, geographical and ethnological factors. (Previously NJCU Course MDT-104)