Use traditional and/or homemade instruments to investigate relationships between musical expression and place (e.g., world music, African and Latin drumming, Indonesian gamelan, North American First Nations' flutes, Caribbean steel bands, urban street culture).
| (a) |
Use drums and other percussion instruments (traditional and/or homemade) to play world music rhythms (e.g., African and Latin rhythms). |
| (b) |
Create various call and response patterns, follow a leader, and collaborate in percussion groups such as drum circles. |
| (c) |
Play traditional world rhythms and notate using traditional and/or invented notation. |
| (d) |
Create improvised rhythms using percussion instruments, or digital technologies where possible, and notate using traditional and/or invented notation. |
| (e) |
Research using the Internet and other sources of information (e.g., books, CDs, local musicians) to investigate how musicians and composers are influenced by music from various parts of the world. |
| (f) |
Analyze and describe how musicians and composers incorporate world music into contemporary work (e.g., STOMP). |
| (g) |
Demonstrate imaginative use of world rhythms in own sound compositions. |
| (h) |
Investigate ways that the elements of music are used expressively in different places of the world and apply this understanding to own work. |
| (i) |
Describe how music is a unique means of communication and recognize the importance of musical expression in various world locales. |
