Cross-culture Choral Music Education: Issues for Western Choral Conductors Related to the Performance of Arabic Choral Music
Description:
The concept of choral music as defined by the Western world was foreign to Arab cultures until the colonization of the Arab world began in the seventeenth century when we began to see the Western choral style emerging in the churches of the Arab world. Group singing of traditional music was done in unison or heterophonic textures. Notated part-singing is a product of colonization, Westernization, Christianization, and now globalization. In recent years, singing music in mixed or multiple voi…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Earnhart, Cari L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries