Cross-culture choralmusic education: Issues for western choral conductors related to the performance of Arabic choral music
[Thesis]
Cari L. Earnhart
McCoy, Jerry
University of North Texas
2015
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-53428-2
D.M.A.
Music
University of North Texas
2015
The concept of choral music as defined by the Western world was foreign to Arab cultures until the colonization of the Arab world began in the seventeenth century when we began to see the Western choral style emerging in the churches of the Arab world. Group singing of traditional music was done in unison or heterophonic textures. Notated part-singing is a product of colonization, Westernization, Christianization, and now globalization. In recent years, singing music in mixed or multiple voicings not of a heterophonic nature has spread beyond the churches to the secular Arab world. As choral singing has increased in the Arab world, a new genre of Arabic choral music has emerged.