Chapter 1

Section 4The Global Roach of Music

World Influences• Modern technology has allowed us

to look up cultures far away from our own.

• We tend to find out that far away places have been affected by their visitors.

• Some musicians blend the music of their native lands with visitor’s music.

• For example, singer Angelique Kidjo infuses West African music with American, European and Latin American music.

Angelique Kidjo

West African Music

• Music of West Africa has influenced has culture for years.

• These unique percussive rhythms find their basis in African drumming.

• Much of these rhythms include clave.• Clave- basic rhythmic pattern that provides

the foundation for the complex rhythms played by multiple drums.

West African Rhythms

• This pattern is played on an iron bell or two rounded wooden sticks called “Claves.”

• This can be played on any instrument as long as it is louder than the rhythmic drumming.

Bell Ringer 8/28/12

Why would you not tell someone a certain song has a nice “beat?”

European Influence on World Music

• A large part of today’s American population has European influences.

• Many people can trace their family back to a certain country.

• Germany and Austria have a particular influence on musical culture.

European Influences

• These countries have given us traditional folk songs, hymns, and works by certain classical masters.

• One of these masters is composer Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706).

• Pachelbel is famous for writing his famous Canon in D.

Johann Pachabel

• http://www.last.fm/music/Johann+Pachelbel

• Melody- an intentionally organized succession of musical tones

• Pitch- the highness or lowness of sound determined by its frequency of vibration

• In the case of Pachelbel, the pitch is D or (DO)

Johann Pachelbel

Listening

• Let’s listen to Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel• CD 1 #22

• This has a follow the leader structure like “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”

• Canon- a musical form where parts enter at different times but have the same melody throughout.

European Influences

• Most people don’t think about how Western classical music can relate to Jamaican reggae music.

• CD 1 #23 “The Best Times of Our Lives”• CD1 #24 “Symphony No.40”

• Let’s try to find something that both pieces have in common.

Technology and the Future

• We live in a technology driven world.• Satellite radio makes it possible to hear live

broadcasts not carried by conventional radio stations.

• If the Voyagers ever do come in contact with some faraway civilization, our musical store may become enriched in unimaginable ways.

• Music may one day be shared between galaxies.