
Welcome to World Music 110
This survey course serves as an introduction to the traditional music of the world's peoples. Focus is on the purposes and roles of music within each culture, musical characteristics, and cross-cultural influences between each region studied. The course will include a survey of the following regions: The Middle East, India, Indonesia, China, Japan, Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and Latin America . I Hope you are looking forward to an exciting quarter discovering a little about the world's music. This is a big topic and we'll be covering a lot of territory!
Here is all the basic information on course policies and grading procedures. There is also a master course schedule (you may need to increase the viewing size!). The home page for each unit will summarize important due dates and remind you of when you need to bring instruments to class.