ELEGGUA, WHO IS HE? WHAT MUSIC IS PLAYED TO HONOUR HIM by Jeanne Schmartz – University of Amsterdam, Musicology (2008) Coached by Wim van der Meer (UVA) and Oscar van Dillen (CODARTS) Introduction Since I have participated in my first Bata drum workshop with Jérôme Goldschmidt some years …
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Music and Trance – What are the relations between music and Trance in the Palo Monte and Santeria cults? by Jean-Luc Jossa, Codarts Rotterdam Latin Percussion, 2007 Thesis-counselors: Eli ´t Hart and Oscar van Dillen Introduction Since I have started playing Latin Percussion, I have always been interested …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in January 2010. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Indonesia is a huge country astride the equator, an archipelago consisting of over 17,500 islands; a little over 6,000 of these are inhabited. The archipelago stretches out from East to West over 5120 km, in three time-zones. Indonesia has an enormous wealth of musical styles and traditions, and some …
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Turkish music: a cultural cartographical survey What is today called Turkish music seems to be largely coming from Anatolia, but it also comes from the western side of the Bosporus. All this variety of music is in fact part of a widespread culture belonging to the larger area the …
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Cartography Greece is part of one of the Balkan peninsulas. One of the best known musical traditions from Greece is called Rembetika. To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two interpretations of what the Balkans are: …
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Cartography Bosnia today is part of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and this in turn is part of one of the Balkan peninsulas. Bosnia’s best known musical tradition is called Sevdah. To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two …
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Balkan cartography Let us first look at a historical map of the Balkans during Ottoman times in 1699: To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two interpretations of what the Balkans are: a narrow one, including …
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The kora is a 21-string bridge-harp, originating from, and used extensively in, West-African countries, such as Mali, Gambia, and Senegal. Kora music being part of the oral tradition, its music was not written until the 20th century. The ethnomusicologists were the only ones to notate the instrument in the …
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Pygmy music, as it is found in Africa. Pygmy is a term used for various ethnic groups worldwide whose average height is unusually short; anthropologists define pygmy as any group whose adult men grow to less than 150 cm (59 inches) in average height1. The map below shows the …
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This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. This is a report of the final day 3 of this project, after a concept of Carlo de …
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This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. This is a report of day 2 of this project, after a concept of Carlo de Wijs and …
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This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. Working after a concept of Carlo de Wijs, coordinated by Ronald Kool, and with a working plan by …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in December 2009. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in November 2009. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in October 2009. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in September 2008. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in May 2008. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book …
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Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in April 2008. All these images and whiteboards deal with music, more especially with music theory, so they have two companion pages here that treat this in more depth: Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning …
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The Paradox of Zeno is a famous philosophical riddle by the Greek philosopher Zeno. It is an example of how too strict logical thinking can completely fail to do justice to a trivial truth of reality. The paradox Picture this scene: Imagine a running contest between Achilles (the Greek …
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Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Complete overhaul Overhauling any website is a lot of work, especially when one migrates server and software at the same time, and isn’t a specialist at that. Although I grew up with computers and actually did my first attempt at what would later be called a “hack” way back …
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