Article: Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture.(Book Review)

Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, by Bonnie C Wade. Oxford University Press (198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016),

2004. 171 pp. $19.95. For those of us who learned the basics of music by mastering the building blocks of so-called Western music--diatonic scales, triads, five-line staves and so on--the burgeoning interest in global music presents both a wonderful world of mysteries to explore and a challenge. How can we teach rudimentary music skills and introductory appreciation of music without being parochial? Even what we have called folk music, be it from Iceland, Scotland or Appalachia, is firmly rooted in those tonal parameters we ...

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