For Tuesday:

Read: Theodore C. Levin and Michael E. Edgerton, “The Throat Singers of Tuva,” Scientific American (September 1999): 80-87.  [Note: you can skip section labeled “Forming Formants.”]

Listen: Podcast from NPR about cowboys, both Mongolian and American.

Write: Keep Journal notes on reading and listening, including responses to one or more of the reflection questions that accompany the podcast.

Other: Practice your throat-singing technique, using this triangle from a book by Mark van Tongeren:

For Thursday:

Read: Begin reading Ch. 2 in anticipation of Tuesday’s TBL.  (Chapter 2 is the longest of the chapters.)

Listen:  Wade CD tracks that correspond to Ch. 2:  1-11, 1-13, 1-14, 1-19, 1-21, 1-22, 1-23, 1-29, 1-30, 1-31, 2-1, 2-2, 2-4, keeping descriptive notes in your journal so you learn to recognize the music and connect it with concepts in the text.

Other: Library Sandbox task is due today.

For Tuesday:

Read: Wade, Preface, Note to Readers, and Chapter 1

Listen: Wade CD 1—1-10 (same as last week) + CD 2-35 (“Artii-Sayir”)

Write: Keep Journal notes on reading and listening.

Other prep: Prepare for TBL assessment on Chapter 1

For Thursday:

Read: Wade, Chapter 7, pp. 195-204 as prep for “fieldwork” related to final project

Listen and write: Prepare for Listening Quiz 1 (LQ 1) [See word bank posted on Canvas]

Other: Sketch out any notes on possible project topics as they occur to you.

For Tuesday:

Read:

• University of Exeter. “Humans around the world dance to the same beat: Study reveals a common beat in global music.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 29 June 2015.
• The following 3 blog pieces by Andrew Dell’Antonio from The Avid Listener [the website Dell’Antonio coedits with ethnomusicologist Felicia Miyakawa]
  • Spiritual Listening
  • Structural Listening
  • Distracted Listening

Write:  (Journal assignment — bring to class):

For each of the 3 types of listening described in The Avid Listener posts above, identify and briefly describe a musical example from your own experience that relates to it. [OR, if nothing comes to mind, seek out 3 musical examples and experience them according to the 3 types of listening, then reflect about it in writing.]

For Thursday:

Listen:  Wade CD 1—1-10

Write :(Journal assignment — bring to class):

Make descriptive notes for each selection: how do you distinguish one musical example from another? Be sure to note the title of the selection and the “source” (composer, performer, or context) for each.

Use the prompts from Tuesday’s Practice TBL Application for at least a portion of the assigned listening as follows:

• All team members apply it to the 2d sura and to “Blue Horse Special.”
• Then divide remaining selections among team members: some apply it to tracks 2-6; some apply it to tracks 7-10.