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Academic Year 2002/2003
South Indian Music--Flute
MUSC 432 SP
Beginning: Concepts of raga and tala (metrical cycle) are introduced through the medium of the South Indian bamboo flute. Intermediate and advanced: There will be a continuation covering advanced technique and musical
forms.
MAJOR READINGS
Required: Brown, Robert E., "India's Music" in CHAPTERS IN INDIAN CIVILIZATION, ed. Joseph Elder.
Optional: Powers, Harold S., "India", NEW GROVES DICTIONARY OF MUSIC, ed. Stanley Sadie.
Sambamoorthy, P., SOUTH
INDIAN MUSIC, Vols. I-VI.
Wade, Bonnie C., MUSIC IN INDIA: THE CLASSICAL TRADITIONS.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Regular practice of lessons, periodic reading assignments, memorization of technical exercises and compositions; at the end of two semesters, students will give an informal presentation of their work.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Rudimentary sense of pitch and rhythm is required, along with at least one year's experience with any transverse flute. Admission by interview and audition. Those interested students should sign up in room 313 in the
Music Studios.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Performance
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA MUSC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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