World Music

Music from outside North America and Europe

 China

 Chinese choral music, to take the broad definition

encompassing folk singing/songs, will go back
centuries. But the modern concept of part-song starts
about the end of the Qing Dynasty when the
missionaries played a more prominent part in the
Western Music Education in China, starting with
hymns, songs and simple solfege.
 Choral pieces can be roughly categorized into:
 Contemporary compositions (eg. Those by Tan Dun)
 Folksong arrangements
 Communist choral works
 Early “western-style” choral compositions
 Works

 Cantata “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” by Huang Zi

 Yellow River Cantata by Xian Xinghai

 Picking Tea Leaves arr. Zhang Yida

 Jasmine Flower – various versions found in

different regions from China but basically the same
melody
 Japan

 Geography in music
 In Hokkaido (the northern-most region of Japan)
winters are very cold and share a similar geographical
position to Russia. In these harsh oceans, fishermen
work as a team managing the heavy nets. From this
team work, folksongs developed emphasizing heavy
downbeats.
 Okinawa (the southern-most group of islands ) is very
close to the tropical belt (Tropic of Cancer) and stays
warm all year. Folksongs here use long, slow phrases
and colorful scales.
 Works

 Sakura (Choral Suite) by Toru Takemitsu

 Jubilate Deo by Ko Matsushita

 South Korea

 Arirang Mass and Inchon Mass by Jung-Sun Park

 Gloria I, II & III by Hyo-Won Woo

 Brazil

 Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959)

 Choros No. 10

 Carlos Alberto Pinto-Fonseca (1933 – 2006)

 Jubiabá
 Cuba

 Beatríz Corona (b. 1962)

 Corazón, Coraza

 Guido López-Gavilán (b. 1944)

 El Guayaboso
 Argentina

 Alberto Ginastera (1916 – 1983)

 Lamentaciones de Jeremías

 Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

 La Pasión Según San Marcos

 Ariel Ramírez (b. 1921)

 Missa Criolla
 Navidad Nuestra
 Venezuela

 Antonio Estévez (1916 – 1988)

 Mata del Anima Sola
 Cantata Criolla

 Alberto Grau
 Dies Irae
 Como Tú
 Mexico

 Manuel de Sumaya (c. 1678 – 1755)

 Celebren, Publiquen
 Hieremiae Prophetae Lamentationes
 Sol Fa de Pedro

 Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590 – 1664)

 Missa Ego Flos Campi
 Peru

 Tomás Torrejón y Velasco (1644 – 1728)

 A Este Sol Peregrino

 Juan de Araujo (1646 – 1712)

 Dixit Dominus a 3 coros
 Australia

 Peter Sculthorpe
 Requiem

 Ross Edwards
 Dawn Mantras

 Stephen Leek
 Ngana

 Sarah Hopkins
 Past Life Melodies
 Honour the Earth
 Australia

 Iain Grandage
 Three Australian Bush Songs

 Paul Stanhope
 Three Geography Songs

 Paul Jarman
 Pemulwuy

 Joseph Twist
 Lux Aeterna

 Dan Walker