Scribd
Upload
530 views25 pages

Introduction To World Music

This document provides an introduction to world music, including definitions and classifications of world music and musical instruments. It discusses the music of South America, focusing on Chilean Nueva Cancion and the songs of Victor Jara. The political situations in South America during the 1950s-1970s involved violent upheaval influenced by the US, Cuba, and other countries. Jara's song "El Aparacido" references Che Guevara and the turbulence of the time period. Students are assigned homework to research the song's rhythm, Jara's biography, and submit their answers.

Uploaded by

Sofia Hamdan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
530 views25 pages

Introduction To World Music

This document provides an introduction to world music, including definitions and classifications of world music and musical instruments. It discusses the music of South America, focusing on Chilean Nueva Cancion and the songs of Victor Jara. The political situations in South America during the 1950s-1970s involved violent upheaval influenced by the US, Cuba, and other countries. Jara's song "El Aparacido" references Che Guevara and the turbulence of the time period. Students are assigned homework to research the song's rhythm, Jara's biography, and submit their answers.

Uploaded by

Sofia Hamdan
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 25

WORLD MUSIC 1

HISTORY
INTRODUCTION TO WORLD MUSIC,
CLASSIFICATIONS OF MUSIC INSTRUMENTS
-MUSIC OF SOUTH AMERICA

MOHD YUSRI BIN HAMID


011-10830427
[email protected]
2

What is world music?

MUSIC OF THE WORLD? MUSIC OF EUROPEAN


TRADITION? MUSIC OF ASIAN TRADITION? AFRICAN?
MUSIC OF WESTERN ART?
World Music Definition 3

(somewhat…..)
 Can be a traditional (folk), popular or even art
music but it must have ethnic or foreign elements.
(Carl Rahkonen, 1994)

 Ideally the music of the whole Earth including the


European art traditions but in practice however, it
is music from outside of the European art
traditions. (Dale Olson, 1991)

 We know it when we hear it!


4

Ok now, what is music?


5
What is music?

 Ingeneral, music is sound that


is humanly organized.

 Sometimes it’s not easy to


separate sound and music.

 Any idea of John Cage’s 4’33”


?
Patterns in Music 6

 Rhythm & Meter


◦ Metrical rhythm: rhythm with recurring
accent pattern
 Melody
◦ Principal tune made of a succession of
tones in particular rhythm
 Harmony
◦ Accompaniment to a melody
 Form
◦ Structural arrangement of musical ideas
7
Texture
 Monophonic (distinct single melody)

 Homophonic (single melody with accompanying


harmony)

 Polyphonic (more than one melody)

 Heterophonic (single melody but each instrument plays


it differently)
8
Ways of Looking at Musical
Instruments: Classification
(Sachs-Hornbostel Instruments
Classification)

◦ Idiophone
◦ Membranophone
◦ Chordophone
◦ Aerophone
Idiophone

 a percussion instrument, for  Example?


example a gong or
xylophone, that is made from
resonating material that does
not have to be tuned

9
10
Membranophones

 instruments that make


sounds when a stretched
skin (membrane) vibrates
Chordophone

 a stringed instrument

11
12
Aerophones
 A wind instrument; noise is
made by pushing air
through a tube.
13

Landscape?
Soundscape???
Soundscape 14

 Characteristics sound of a place

 Can anyone give me an example…..?

 Gong-chime in Southeast Asia

 Percussions of Africa

 Latin music of South America


15

CHILEAN NUEVA
CANCION – Victor Jara
Music of South America
Class Activity 16

 Discuss in group (search online, google, or


anything….)

 The political situation in South America during 1950s


to 1970s

 Neighbouring countries of Chile. (Where is Chile


located actually??? Alexis Sanchez? Arturo Vidal?)

 Who is Che Guevara?


Nueva Cancion 17

 Nueva Cancion - a song movement through


which people stand up for their own culture—for
themselves as a people—in the face of
oppression by a totalitarian (??? – google now!!)
regime or in the face of cultural imperialism from
abroad, notably the United States and Europe

 Developed first in Southern cone of South


America (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay)

 Where is it?
18
19
Political Situations in South 20
America in 1950s,1960s
&1970s
 Very well known as violent upheaval times
(influenced by US, Cuba & Dominican Republic)
 Plaza de Mayo massacre in Buenos Aires and the
subsequent fall of Peron in Argentina (1955)
 the fall of Cuba’s Batista government and the
victorious Cuban Revolution (1959)
 the fall of the Joao Goulart government in Brazil
(1964)
 the death of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia (1967)
 The subsequent spread of guerrilla fighting in Central
America and Venezuela, and the Tlatelolco
massacre in Mexico (1968)
 the victory of the Unidad Popular in Chile (1970),
initiating three years of government under Salvador
Allende, followed by the 1973 military coup
El Aparacido (1967) – 21

Victor Jara
 Translate to English (The Apparition)??

 The lyrics reflect the turbulence of the times

 Dedicated by Victor Jara to Ernesto Che Guevara


(highlights are in the chorus)

 Let’s listen to it!


The lyrics… 22
Homework….. 23

 Name the traditional Latin type of rhythm/metric


that is used in this song.

 Short biography of Victor Jara.

 To be submitted via e-mail


[email protected]

 Latest by 24 hours from now!


References 24

 Titon, J (2009). Worlds of Music, An Introduction to


the Music of the World's Peoples. 5th edition.
Belmont, California: Schirmer/Thomson Learning

 Kamien, R. (2011). Music: An Appreciation. 10th


ed. New York: McGraw-Hill

 Rahkonen, C. (1994). World Music in Libraries.


Technical Report no.24, MA, Music Library
Association.
25

Thank you!!

You might also like