JS 223 - World Music Rhythms for Non-Majors

Institution:

The New England Conservatory of Music

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Description:

A world music workshop for instrumentalists and vocalists that focuses on the students' ability to internalize and comprehend a range of rhythms. The teaching emphasizes speaking rhythm and then performing the lessons on the frame drum. Course materials are based upon a contemporary application of old-world teaching methods from North Africa, the Mideast, and South India. The rhythms are polyrhythmic and cyclical in nature. The playing techniques implemented are basic hand and finger techniques adapted from South Indian drumming and can be applied to a variety of percussion instruments. (2 credits) Haddad

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

necmusic.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 585-1100

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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