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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.