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  Wesleyan East Asian Music - Courses
This course examines the relationships between music and modernity in China, Japan, and Korea, and the interactions between the impact of Western music and nationalism and contemporary cultural identities.
In particular, it explores the historical significance of the Meiji Restoration on Japanese music tradition, the Japanese influence on Chinese School Songs, the origins of contemporary music in China, Japan, and Korea, the adaptation and preservation of traditional music genres, and the rise of popular music and the music industry.
The course aims to provide knowledge on East Asian music genres, insight on the issues of global/local cultural contacts, and a better understanding of music's central role in political and social movements in twentieth century East Asia.
www.wesleyan.edu /music/eam/courses.html   (291 words)

  
  Music genre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gospel is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian.
Gong and chime music is a musical genre characterized by ensembles consisting of a variety of traditional instruments, most notably wooden or metal xylophones and bronze vessels (gongs or bells).
Music genres : A-F G-M N-R S-Z Cultural and regional · Musical Attributes of the Genres
www.tocatch.info /en/Music_genre.htm   (3400 words)

  
  Wikipedia:WikiProject World music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This includes articles like Music of Sweden, Music of Tanzania, Inuit music, Shinto music, Roma music and Esperanto music; all member articles should be listed at list of cultural and regional genres of music.
In some cases, variants might be used -- Music of the United States uses a musicbox which is different than those used for Music of Hawaii, Music of Puerto Rico, Music of Louisiana and Music of Texas, each of which have their own varieties.
Music of the United Kingdom and Music of Canada both have three different boxes; one of the UK boxes (such as at Music of the Cayman Islands) is a variant of the Caribbean musicbox, which has different varieties at Music of Jamaica and Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe, among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_World_music   (820 words)

  
 World music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
World music is a term that covers all music that is not part of mainstream popular music or classical music and has some kind of "ethnic" component.
The connotation of the term is popular and folk music from the third world, European popular and folk music that uses influences from the third world, and traditional music especially but not only from the third world.
A music festival, 'Crossing the Border' was held at the, London and it was the start of the winter season for both WOMAD and.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/World_music   (1156 words)

  
 List of cultural and regional genres of music
List of cultural and regional genres of music is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
List of cultural and regional genres of music: Encyclopedia II - List of cultural and regional genres of music - Geographic genres
List of cultural and regional genres of music: Encyclopedia II - List of cultural and regional genres of music - Cultural genres
www.experiencefestival.com /list_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music   (1775 words)

  
 Elementary Education Resources: Music
Land of Music - Elementary Music Education -- The Land of Music is a wonderful world where notes, other musical symbols and instruments come alive.
Music Page--Hungarian folk songs (charts, midi and karaoke), animated Hungarian folk tales in Italian, drawings of animals, etc.
History and Music --This site combines historic events and classical musical compositions
www.pitt.edu /~poole/eledMusic.html   (596 words)

  
 Music Regional Shopping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Music of Myanmar - The music of Myanmar is a mixture of many regional varieties, including Chinese music, Indian music and Thai music.
Music of Kentucky - The Music of Kentucky is heavily centered on Appalachian folk music and its descendants, especially in eastern Kentucky.
Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in Rosine, Kentucky, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.
ca29.mavgeo.com /musicregionalshopping.html   (692 words)

  
 Knowledge King - List of cultural and regional genres of music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Music of Cambodia (pinpeat orchestra, kantrum, jamrieng samai)
Music of the Czech Republic (polka, bluegrass, trampská hudba, cimbalom)
Music of Martinique and Guadeloupe (biguine, chouval bwa, gwo ka, kadans, zouk)
www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music.html   (1144 words)

  
 List of music genres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Music can be divided into genres in many different ways.
Many do not believe that generic classification of musical styles is possible in any logically consistent way, and also argue that doing so sets limitations and boundaries that hinder the development of music.
While no one doubts that it is possible to note similarities between musical pieces, there are often exceptions and caveats associated.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_musical_genres   (130 words)

  
 Music
Sing, with appropriate stylistic expression, the music of diverse genres and cultures.
Exemplify knowledge of the elements of music by composing an 8 to 32 measure piece illustrating unity and variety, tension and release, and dynamic interpretation.
Analyze aural examples of music from diverse genres and cultures by examining the uses of the elements of music.
www.mde.k12.ms.us /acad/id/curriculum/arts/MUSIC.HTM   (9670 words)

  
 Polish Art Center - Music Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Ceremonial music is represented on this CD by the harvest-home song (ex.4), the song connected with the podkoziolek carnival custom (ex.5) and wedding songs for oczepiny (the ceremony of placing a woman's bonnet on the bride's head, ex.7,8,9).
Instrumental music is represented by the simplest music bands composed of two instruments: a violin with a drum of a violin with a bass.
The music performed on this CD is representative of the music from this mountain region and was recorded in November, 1999.
www.polartcenter.com /cgi-bin/shop.pl/page=music.htm   (7340 words)

  
 ipedia.com: List of cultural and regional genres of music Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Music of Guinea-Bissau (gumbe, brosca, kussundé, kundere, djambadon, tina, tinga, calibash)
Music of the Maldives (boduberu, thaara, Gaa odi lava, langiri, bolimalaafath neshun)
Music of Nigeria (apala, Igbo highlife, Yo-pop, Afrobeat, fuji, juju)
www.ipedia.com /list_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music.html   (1371 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Announcements October 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikiproject:World music announces that there is an article on the music of every single independent country in the world, as well as numerous dependent territories and subnational entities.
They range from the briefest of stubs, such as music of Bhutan, to multi-page series, such as music of the United States.
The last one written was on the music of the Vatican City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements_October_2004   (460 words)

  
 List of cultural and regional genres of music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
afoxê - bumba-meu-boi - Capoeira music - choro - repentismo - samba
Baul music - bhangra - dandiya - lavani
bongo - calypso music - lavway - leggos - steelpan
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music   (700 words)

  
 Shaping American Cultural Identities Through Music Abstracts
The study of the music is not to be in-depth but rather to expose the students to the types of music being composed, played, and enjoyed by the people of the era.
The study of music during this time period will be used as a motivational device and a memory aid in helping students learn and remember the events and people of the pre-civil war and the Civil war era.
The overall intent is to have students gain a greater understanding of their immediate world and their place in it by tracing the history and evolution of the regional music of their home.
www.unm.edu /~abqteach/music/music_abstracts.htm   (1772 words)

  
 Learn more about List of genres of music in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Learn more about List of genres of music in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
List of cultural and regional genres of music
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_genres_of_music.html   (113 words)

  
 Thai classical music Related List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Thai classical music is classified by level (‘chan’), according to the speed of tempo.
Music: Thai classical music is influenced by Indian culture through the Mons and Khamers.
Music was an important part of life during this period, and what is now known as Thai classical music arose during the Ayuthaya period.
www.thaiclassicalmusic.com /thailink.html   (1268 words)

  
 Pop_music
Successful pop music, which is often measured in terms of its commercial success, is usually performed by charismatic performers who look attractive, are fashionable, and usually are able to dance well.
This is also at least partially why genres that manage to attain a certain level of credibility as styles in their own right are often no longer considered "pop"; as several of the more serious musicians, as well as their fans, strive to separate themselves from the commercialism-over-creativity aspect of current pop music.
It was created as a synonym of "rock-n-roll", during the birth of the rock era in the 1950's, in order to separate the then-new, then-controversial form of music from the jazz, gospel, big band, and classical music that had come before it.
www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Pop_music   (1188 words)

  
 Qatar Culture : Middle East Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Choose yours Culture and Customs of Philippines by Paul Rodell, ISBN 0313304157 Culture and Customs of the Philippines provides the best general overview to the Asian archipelago and to a people with close ties...
The necklace is comprised of baroque cultured freshwater pearls.
The pendant is mother-of pearl, and its bail is fashioned with two rows of baroque cultured freshwater pearls...
www.gulfunion-bah.com /294-Qatar-Culture.html   (965 words)

  
 Cambridge University Press - Music
The Cambridge Music list is one of the largest music book lists in the world.
Mozart's enduring popularity, among music lovers as a composer and among music historians as a subject for continued study, lies at the heart of The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia.
No musical genre has had a more controversial critical history than the concerto, but has simultaneously retained as consistently prominent a place in the affections of the concert-going public.
www.cambridge.org /us/music   (402 words)

  
 UCSB Libraries - Internet Resources in Music
Explores the full breadth of Puerto Rican music, with descriptions of native music genres including danza, folk music, plena, bomba, and salsa, as well as related genres such as the Cuban son, merengue, bolero, and jazz.
There are descriptions and photos of native musical instruments and an extensive collection of artist biographies (mostly Puerto Ricans) from all genres, each with a discography, photo, and sample audio clips of their music.
A.pdf list of all works in the archive is available; users may also browse by composer or genre (barbarshop, hymns, etc.) or search by title, number of voices, and other categories.
www.library.ucsb.edu /subjects/music/music.html   (5625 words)

  
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See live article   List of cultural and regional genres of music Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Cultural genres 1.1 By race or ethnicity 1.2 By religion 1.3 By language 2 Geographic genres 2.4 By country 2.5 By continent or other international region 2.
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 American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings: A Selected List 1991 (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Each year a panel of specialists in American traditional music meets to select a group of outstanding recordings from the approximately three hundred compact discs, audiocassettes, and phonograph records submitted by producers and manufacturers or suggested by various interested parties.
The music is performed here by the trio that usually provides accompaniment in the three villages with a typical instrumentation of violin, six-string guitar, and twelve- string guitar.
Side one contains the music that is used in both Alcalde and Chimayo versions of the matachines, as well as six social dance tunes; side two contains the music of the San Juan Pueblo matachines.
www.loc.gov /folklife/selectlst/selrec91.html   (4482 words)

  
 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Worldwide Internet Music Resources page is a listing of dubject directories to Internet resources organized by individual musicians and popular groups; groups and ensembles; other sites related to performance; composers and composition; genres and types of music; research and study; commerical world of music; journals and magazines; and general and miscellaneous.
The sheet music illustrates a broad spectra of music genres, from the ragtime of Scott Joplin to the dixieland of W. Handy to the smooth ballads of Irving Berlin to the stirring patriotic anthems of John Phillips Sousa and George M. Cohan to the early roots of big band sounds.
The music also reflects the fabric of a society struggling to come to terms with an increasingly multi-cultural heritage, its role as an emerging world power, and its vulnerability to erratic economic and political forces.
www.jsu.edu /depart/library/graphic/music.htm   (7600 words)

  
 List of cultural and regional genres of music help – Wiki at Help.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Cultural and regional · Musical Attributes of the Genres
afoxê - bumba-meu-boi - Capoeira music - choro - repentismo - samba
bongo - calypso music - lavway - leggos - steelpan
help.com /wiki/List_of_cultural_and_regional_genres_of_music   (741 words)

  
 LIST OF REGIONAL GENRES OF MUSIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Music of France (hurdygurdy, motete, minuet, gwerz, Breton pipes, bal-musette, chanson)
Music of the United Kingdom (heavy metal, electronic music, Britpop, dream pop, synth pop, folk-rock, psychedelic rock, punk rock, progressive rock, New Wave of British heavy metal, lovers rock, New Wave music, two-tone, drum and bass, twee pop, space rock, shoegazing, trip hop, house music, techno, jungle, British blues)
Music of the United States (rock and roll, jazz, country music, psychedelic rock, gospel, rockabilly, doo wop, soul, CCM, heavy metal, punk rock, bluegrass, hillbilly music, honkytonk, slack-key guitar, Western swing, salsa, hip hop, jug band, folk-rock, grunge, hardcore punk, klezmer, zydeco, blues)
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/LIST+OF+REGIONAL+GENRES+OF+MUSIC   (1044 words)

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