MU 504 - Form and Analysis in Diverse Musics

3.00 credits.

This course develops aural and analytic skills within diverse musical contexts. Students will encounter challenges of transcribing and analyzing musics in ways that are responsive to idiosyncratic structures of each studied tradition. In particular, students will study the analysis and organization of musical traditions within the African Diaspora in ways that inform work within World Music Drumming Curriculum. Students will also form an analysis within Arabic traditions, Central Asian timbre-dominant traditions, Indian traditions, Gamelan, and a selected Southeast or Eastern Asian tradition. *Prerequisite(s): MME 501. Summer semester.