September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Just as composers toward the end of the 20th century began to use rock as an avid influence in their classical compositions, they also began to use world music as a source for inspiration. Actually, this trend was already present as early as the 1920s and ’30s when composers such as Béla Bartók used folk songs from around the world as part of their music.
There are two trends in world-music influence. In one, Western composers used instruments from other cultures; some examples are Chinese traditional instruments, Indian ragas, and the Indonesian gamelan. These ...
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