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Whiteboards January 2010

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 19, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018
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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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Indonesian music

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 11, 2012 by oscarNovember 16, 2012

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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Posted in World music | Tagged gamelan, indonesia, kecak, music of asia

Turkish music

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 10, 2012 by oscarNovember 16, 2012
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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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Posted in World music | Tagged anatolia, bosporus, music of africa, music of asia, music of europe, ottoman empire, turkey

Greek Rembetika

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 10, 2012 by oscarNovember 16, 2012

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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Posted in World music | Tagged greece, music of europe, rembetika

Bosnian Sevdah

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 10, 2012 by oscarNovember 16, 2012

  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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Posted in World music | Tagged bosnia, music of europe, sevdah

Balkan music

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 10, 2012 by oscarJuly 19, 2014

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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Posted in World music | Tagged balkan, music of europe

Kora music

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 9, 2012 by oscarNovember 16, 2012

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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Posted in World music | Tagged kora, music of africa, world music composition

Pygmy music

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 9, 2012 by oscarNovember 26, 2020

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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Posted in World music | Tagged music of africa, polyphony, pygmy

Codarts project week Day 3 – Thursday 8 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 8, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016
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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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Codarts project week Day 2 – Tuesday 6 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 6, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016

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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Codarts project week Day 1 – Monday 5 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 5, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016
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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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Whiteboards December 2009

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Whiteboards November 2009

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Whiteboards October 2009

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Whiteboards September 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Whiteboards May 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Whiteboards April 2008

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 4, 2012 by oscarDecember 19, 2018

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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Paradox of Zeno

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 1, 2012 by oscarDecember 11, 2016

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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Posted in Tools for students | Tagged dot, duration, music theory, notation, paradox, perception, philosophy, time, zeno

Students categorizing music 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 30, 2012 by oscarSeptember 18, 2016

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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Posted in Tools for students | Tagged art, culture, music, music philosophy, music theory, outline of basic music theory, perception, philosophy, physics of sound, students

Overhauling www.oscarvandillen.com

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 28, 2012 by oscarApril 20, 2013

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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