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Exploring the World of Music
Basic elements of music from a global perspective
Grade Levels:
9-12
Length:
30 minutes
Taping Rights:
Unlimited
Teaching Materials:
See Below

Through rare archival footage and contemporary performances, this series presents themes such as music and the environment, music as cultural memory, and the effect of technology on music. It also demonstrates how musical elements can express culture and create an infinite variety of sounds.


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2007/08 Block Feeds on KET ED

Block Feed: Programs 101-108 Program Details
3 hours, 59 minutes
    Monday, August 6 at 6:00 am on KETED
    Monday, September 17 at 2:00 am on KETED
    Monday, January 7 at 6:00 am on KETED
    Tuesday, January 8 at 2:00 am on KETED

Block Feed: Programs 109-112 Program Details
1 hours, 59 minutes
    Monday, August 6 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, September 17 at 10:00 am on KETED
    Friday, October 5 at midnight on KETED
    Monday, November 26 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, January 7 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Wednesday, January 9 at 2:00 am on KETED
    Tuesday, January 22 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, April 28 at 2:00 pm on KETED

Block Feed: Programs 101-104 Program Details
1 hours, 59 minutes
    Wednesday, October 3 at midnight on KETED
    Monday, November 12 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, April 14 at 2:00 pm on KETED

Block Feed: Programs 105-108 Program Details
1 hours, 59 minutes
    Thursday, October 4 at midnight on KETED
    Monday, November 19 at 2:00 pm on KETED
    Monday, April 21 at 2:00 pm on KETED


Episodes Included in These Block Feeds

101. Sound, Music, and the Environment
Explores various definitions of what music is, from the sine wave to poetic metaphor, and the impact of the cultural environment on music. Examples include Bosnian ganga and becarac singing; Tuvan throat singing; Irish, West African, Trinidadian, and Japanese music; and Western chamber music, jazz, and rock. 27 minutes.

102. The Transformative Power of Music
The musical healing ceremonies of the !Kung people in Namibia and Botswana; Epirote music in traditional Greek weddings; and modern rock, gospel, and folk music all reveal music's power to transform lives. 27 minutes.

103. Music and Memory
West African griots, the Walbiri people of Australia, folksingers of Ireland and Appalachia, and modern practitioners of early music show us how our musical pasts live again today. 27 minutes.

104. Transmission: Learning Music
How people learn musical traditions and how they are maintained, modified, notated, taught, and performed for a new, younger audience are exemplified in Indian classical music, African village drumming, and modern jazz and gospel. 27 minutes.

105. Rhythm
How rhythm structures music is examined through American marching bands, North Indian tala and Japanese shakuhachi traditions, West African drumming, and Afro-Cuban dance music. 27 minutes.

106. Melody
Illustrates how melodies are shaped, elaborated, and developed within Western classical music, the Arabic maqam tradition, Irish dance music and sean-nós singing, and Indian raga. 27 minutes.

107. Timbre: The Color of Music
Examines the creation and effects of timbre in jazz; Indian, West African, Irish, Bosnian, and Japanese music; and Indonesian gamelan. 27 minutes.

108. Texture
Explores texture in Japanese shakuhachi, Trinidadian steel band music, Bosnian ganga, West African percussion, and modern Australian choral music. 27 minutes.

109. Harmony
Harmony, understood in vastly different ways around the world, is analyzed in jazz, chamber music, Bosnian ganga singing, early-music plainchants, and barbershop quartets. 27 minutes.

110. Form: The Shape of Music
The traditional Western sonata, the blueprints behind improvisational jazz, the narrative structure of traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music and American gospel, and Irish fiddle tunes demonstrate worldwide variations in musical form. 27 minutes.

111. Composers and Improvisers
How are a composer and an improviser alike? How are they different? The marriage between fixed elements and new variation is examined in American rock, Indian raga, classical and contemporary Western music, jazz, and Arabic classical music. 27 minutes.

112. Music and Technology
How technology affects music is examined in a case study of the flute and in an exploration of developing recording and composing technologies that are fusing the roles of composer, musician, arranger, and conductor. 30 minutes.

Teaching Materials

AUDIOCASSETTE
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Annenberg Media Educational Sales
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CD
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Annenberg Media Educational Sales
(202) 879-9600
401 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
info@learner.org

TEXTBOOKS
http://www.learner.org/resources/series105.html
Annenberg Media Educational Sales
(202) 879-9600
401 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
info@learner.org

VIDEO
http://www.learner.org/resources/series105.html
Annenberg Media Educational Sales
(202) 879-9600
401 9th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004
info@learner.org



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