Exploring the World of Music
Timbre: The Color of Music (#107)
This program examines the creation and effects of timbre in jazz, Indian, West African, Irish, Bosnian, Indonesian gamelan and Japanese music. [26 minutes]
This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.
Information For Teachers
- Grade Levels
- 9-12
- Curricular Areas
- The Arts
- Literacy & Languages
- Series Length
- 12 episodes
- Average Episode Length
- 26 minutes
- Record Rights
- Record only; no duplication allowed
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Series Description: Exploring the World of Music takes students on a world tour through both sight and sound and promotes understanding of musical concepts through demonstrations and discussions with instrumentalists, vocalists, improvisers and composers from many diverse cultures.
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All Upcoming Episodes
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Music and Memory (#103)
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. [26 minutes]
- Mon, June 24, 4:00 AM on IPTV
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Transmission: Learning Music (#104)
This program demonstrates how we learn musical traditions and how we maintain, modify, notate, teach and perform them for a new, younger audience. [26 minutes]
- Mon, June 24, 4:30 AM on IPTV
Past Episodes
These episodes of Exploring the World of Music aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.