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As if music composition only happened in the Western world. Let's just call it the #WesternWorldComposerCup or maybe the #WorldColonialComposerCup to reflect that the options are composers in Western/European styles of music. #ComposerWorldCup #Colonialism #WesternImperialism
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My picks for an actual #ComposerWorldCup include include, but not be limited to:

Kassia, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Ki Narto Sabdo, Khosrovidukht Goghtnatsi, Montri Tramoj, Tanburi Cemil Bey, Tang Xianzu.

Ask me another day, and I'd choose differently.
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Maybe ask yourself, does the #ComposerWorldCup reflect the composition (much less, the actual freakin' World) if it doesn't include things like, well, compositional styles/traditions from around the world?

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Jan 13, 2023
Apparently there were organs on planes.

"An organ was installed on a Northwest Stratocruiser in the 1950s through an arrangement with local musician Swanee Swanson. The organists received free flights to New York and other East Coast destinations."

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Page 43 of "Northwest Airlines: The First Eighty Years"

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"Anne Kerr (center) explained the location of the organ installed on one of the Stratocruisers to Dave and Wendy McCarthy."

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Aug 5, 2022
Welsh Harp tablature from the *Robert ap Huw manuscript* (1613). The manuscript is the oldest extant source of primarily Late Medieval eisteddfod repertory that dates to 1340-1500 and was compiled by Robert ap Huw (c.1580-1665).

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Short segment on the *Robert ap Huw manuscript* in Rhodri McDonagh's wonderful "Welsh Trad Music | A Beginner's Guide" video (cued up to that segment below). The whole vid is worth a watch and is only 24 minutes.

Bangor University's "Music of the Robert ap Huw Manuscript" page with other resources for Cerdd Dant and other British Isles harp traditions.

bangor.ac.uk/music-and-medi…
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Aug 3, 2022
One of the things I love about Georgian Harmony is that it's based on what's essentially close to a functionally 7TET/EDO collection of pitches. Many global harmonic systems are built on different tuning systems than those in what's typically referred to as Western harmony.
The above image from Malkhaz Erkvanidze's "On Georgian Scale System" pg. 181

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"Tonal Organization of the Erkomaishvili Dataset: Pitches, Scales, Melodies and Harmonies"

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Aug 3, 2022
Just looking the bi/polymusical course offerings at Thai Universities (sample below) in a Dissertation from 1998.

"Undergraduate Piano Pedagogy Course Offerings in Thai Universities" Chindarat Charoenwongse. University of Oklahoma.
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Bi/polymusical education ecosystems are far more common outside of Europe and North America.

H/T to @FergusonGuitar for this.

"Bi-musicality in modern Japanese culture"
Alison Tokita
doi.org/10.1177%2F1367…
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Aug 2, 2022
Latest update to the <Solo Keyboard Repertoire - Southeast Asian Composers> resource. Added about another 50 or so pieces by (primarily) Vietnamese/Vietnamese diasporan composers.

I'm barely scratching the surface of solo keyboard rep here, folks.
doi.org/10.6084/m9.fig…
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And just hearing all those different composers that've created wonderfully expressive uses of the piano for native tunes, or how they've incorporated that into their compositional style or, in some cases, incorporated the piano into SEA folk and art musics, is just so refreshing!
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Finally getting a chance to read this and the intro piece "American Music and Racial Fantasy, Past and Present" is so excellent & lays out the backdrop for what I call the <Perpetually Foreign Music> idea & how Raceface Minstrelsy shapes current Anglo/American popular musics.
This, especially: "Dismantling the Black-white binary requires us to locate our discussion of music and race in the period prior to 1900" (pg. 573) though I'd argue we should extend this into discussion of race/music today & how the Black-white binaries create other...
...exclusions. Especially as this carries over into music education & how this "In every part of the globe that was touched by minstrelsy, fantasies served to advance white male status" plays into ehtno-nationalist views of what counts as "American Music."
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