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Intercultural music education:What have the students learnt?
Trevor Wiggins
Anyone for Bach?
Neporo
Krobo Matakole Kainka Brass Band, 1897-8
A Xylophone?
Language acquisition
‘Human fetuses are able to memorize auditory stimuli from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language.’
(Mampe, Friederici et al. 2009)
Enculturated Musical Tuning
Bi-Musical/Bi-Lingual
Levels of ability/understanding?
• Phrase book
• Basic communication and vocabulary
• Good competence
• Equivalent of native speaker
Summary
• Intercultural education?
• More cultures = better?
• No cultural hierarchy.
• ‘Immersion’ using authentic instruments.
• Collaborative teaching.
• Understand what you don’t know.
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