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• What makes Classical music so different from traditional and popular music? Give an example of each type of music.

Chapter 2

Section 2.3Traditional Music Cultures

Mexico

• Traditional musical styles and genres are often associated with specific cultures or areas.

• Some cultures have musical expressions so distinctive that they are immediately recognizable.

• This section talks about Mexico and Bali and their contributions to the music community.

Mexico

• This is a country with many different regions.• The official language of Mexico is Spanish.• For many centuries, music has played a central

role in the lives of the Mexican people.• The Spanish introduced a rich musical

heritage, including a wide variety of music and instruments.

• Enslaved Africans and Caribbean immigrants also influenced Mexican music.

Music of Mexico

• The legacy of the past has been reworked through centuries of creativity.

• The result is regional musical forms that are at once different but yet similar.

• Each region produces its own unique musical forms and compositions.

• All use Spanish instruments such as a folk harp, violin, and guitar-type instruments.

Music of Mexico

• Mexicans use music to celebrate baptisms, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, civic ceremonies, and religious holidays.

• The people often join in with the musicians and sing along.

• They tend to burst out with enthusiastic yells, laughter, clapping, and dancing.

Music of Mexico

• Now listen to the song “La Bamba.”

• Clap the rhythm with bass notes.

Bali

• Bali is a province of the Republic of Indonesia.• One thousand of Indonesia’s 13,000 islands are

home to 180 million people, making the country the world’s fifth most populous.

• The Balinese people are known for their uniquely ritualistic forms of music, drama, and dance.

• All children learn to dance and sing both in and out of school.

Bali

• Nearly everyone in Bali is an artist- a sculptor, painter, dancer, or musician.

• After a busy day working in the rice fields, the men gather in the late afternoon to practice gamelan music.

• Gamelan- Balinese music ensemble, or performing group

Music of Bali

• The term, which is generically applied to “gone-chime” orchestras throughout Indonesia, is central to Balinese music.

• There are different types of gamelan ensembles on the island.

• Some have 25 members or more in the ensemble.

Music of Bali

• Males take up gamelan instruments when they are young and learn to play “by ear” from the older men.

• Females often take up weaving and dancing.• Both young men and women dance with the

gamelan when they have mastered the difficult movements the music is meant to accompany.

• The dances relate to stories often taken from religion.

The Barong Dance

• There is no dance or drama in Bali without music.

• One of the most popular dance dramas is the story of Barong and Rangda, also know as the Barong Dance.

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Listening

• Now listen to the Overture to the Barong Dance (Balinese Gamelan)

• Does the tempo change?• Can you detect two different moods?• What instrument leads the group?