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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is an introduction to selected musical traditions of West Africa. A variety of musical practices and their cultural contexts will be explored through listening, reading, and written assignments, with an emphasis on class discussion. The course includes in-class instruction in West African drumming, song and dance, as well as lec
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- music and theater arts
- african music
- world music
- west africa
- drumming
- song
- dance
- kora
- ethnomusicology
- senegal
- mali
- ghana
- nigeria
- lamine toure
- mbalax
- hip-hop
- rhythm
- wolof
- griot
- sabar
- salif keita
- oumou sangare
- ali farka toure
- highlife
- juju
- afro-beat
- afro-pop
- afrobeat
- afropop
- fela kuti
- king sunny ade
- ewe
- yoruba
- ethnography
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This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments. It includes a weekly seminar in composition for the presentation and discussion of work in progress. Students are expected to produce at least one substantive work, performed in public, by the end of the term. Contemporary comp
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- music and theater arts
- classical music
- composer
- contemporary music
- 20th century music
- chamber music
- atonal
- post-tonal
- avant-garde music
- orchestration
- art song
- song
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This course is for the singer and/or pianist interested in collaborative study of solo vocal performance. This term we will focus upon the works of Women Composers. Students will gather biographical data and explore art songs, operatic arias, choral masterpieces, and arrangements employing sacred and secular texts. Additionally, students wi
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- music and theater arts
- vocal repertoire
- vocal performance
- art song
- opera
- aria
- choral music
- sacred music
- singing
- vocal
- song
- amy beach
- women composers
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