Internationalising the curriculum : building intercultural understandings through music

This article reports of the power (influence) of music to develop intercultural understandings to better internationalise the curriculum. It argues that through internationalisation, we learn more about other people’s cultures hence, by providing an international/intercultural dimension into the teaching unit of ‘Discovering Music A’, tertiary students at Deakin University have opportunities to experience, investigate and participate in a different music and culture. Using the metaphor of the ‘talking drum’, this article reports through anecdotal notes, observations, journaling and student evaluation, how a different music, like that of Africa, communicates and promotes intercultural dialogue in a social and learning environment. The 2011 cohort included both international and local students from the Faculty of Arts and Education, Health and Business and Law, opening up a broad range of international dialogue in which all students in the cohort had a voice for expressing themselves about another culture and its music. I contend that the inclusion of a new and different music in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) curriculum and as an elective unit across all faculties provides a pathway for intercultural dialogue and understanding. As tertiary educators by internationalising the curriculum and through the process of reflection, observation and student feedback, we are able to make meaning around our practice and adapt our practice. I argue that units like Discovering Music A are an effective and useful dais to address cultural diversity and build intercultural relations and understandings in our tertiary courses.

FTMOntology: An ontology to fill the semantic gap between music, mood, personality, and human physiology

This paper presents a domain ontology, the FeelingTheMusic Ontology - FTMOntology. FTMOntology is designed to represent the complex domain of music and how it relates to other domains like mood, personality and physiology. This includes representing the main concepts and relations of music domain with each of the above-mentioned domains. The concepts and relations between music, mood, personality and physiology. The main contribution of this work is to model and relate these different domains in a consistent ontology. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

White spirituals in the southern uplands; the story of the fasola folk, their songs, singings, and "buckwheat notes,"

Includes music.

Sur cinq notes : petite suite pour piano à 4 mains : [op. 34] /

Ronde.--Barcarolle.--Mazurka.--Bercement.--Danse pyrenéenne.--Mélodie.--Pastorale.--Farandole.

Streichquartett, op. 54 no. 1, G moll = [music] : String quartet, G minor /

Duration: ca.. 25 min.

Präludium, Fuge und Allegro. [music] : für Klavier zu 2 Händen : Es dur = E[flat[ major = Mi[flat] majeur : BWV 998 /

Analytical notes: p. 12-15.

Complete school of technic for the piano : includes flexibility and independence, scales in all forms, extension, arpeggios in all orms, double notes, octaves and chords, trills, tremolo, glissando /

Mode of access: Internet.

The book of common prayer with musical notes; the first office book of the Reformation.

"Imprinted by Richard Grafton ... 1550"--Colophon.

Oeuvres complètes de Diderot, revues sur les éditions originales, comprenant ce qui a été publié à diverses époques et les manuscrits inédits, conservés à la Bibliothèque de l'Ermitage, notices, notes, table analytique. Étude sur Diderot et le mouvement philosophique au XVIIIe siècle,

Vol.17-20 ed. by Maurice Tourneux.

Tudor church music.

Edited by E. H. Fellowes and others.

One hundred folksongs of all nations. [music] /

"Notes on the songs": p. [ix]-xxvii.

Songs from the operas for alto. [music] /

"Notes to the songs": p. x-xxvii.

Lives of the twelve apostles : with explanatory notes /

Collects and hymns (without music): p. 144-148.

The theory and practice of tone relations; a condensed course of harmony designed for the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass.

Blank leaves, some with manuscript notes, bound at end.

A compilation of genuine church music : comprising a variety of metres, all harmonized for three voices : together with a copious elucidation of the science of vocal music /

Includes indexes.