Cross-culture choralmusic education: Issues for western choral conductors related to the performance of Arabic choral music
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[Thesis]
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Cari L. Earnhart
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McCoy, Jerry
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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University of North Texas
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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61
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-53428-2
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Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
D.M.A.
Discipline of degree
Music
Body granting the degree
University of North Texas
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.