Exploring the World of Music
Form: The Shape of Music (#110)
The Western sonata, the blueprints behind jazz, traditional Japanese music, call-and-response forms in West African music, American gospel and Irish fiddle tunes exemplify worldwide variations in musical form.
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Program 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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Past Episodes
These episodes of Exploring the World of Music aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Music and Technology (#112)
- Composers and Improvisers (#111)
- Form: The Shape of Music (#110)
- Harmony (#109)
- Texture (#108)
- Timbre: The Color of Music (#107)
- Melody (#106)
- Rhythm (#105)
- Transmission: Learning Music (#104)
- Music and Memory (#103)
- The Transformative Power of Music (#102)
- Sound, Music and the Environment (#101)
