MUS 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Professional Ethics, Cao Wei, Pentatonic Scale
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Lecture 20: case study: traveling the silk road. The silk road- a series of overland trade routes established millennia ago stretching from east asia to europe. A good example of musical mobility and human migration. The silk road is a metaphor for travel. Today the silk road concept is used to form new musics and resurrect old ones. The 36th annual smithsonian folklife festival in washington dc titled the silk. Featuring 400 artists, vendors, musicians and scholars from more than 2 dozen nations, speaking more than 30 languages. Cellist yo-yo ma conceived the concept of the silk road musical project. Ma launched the silk road project to study the historical and present-day flow of culture along the trans-eastern trade routes. He says: i believe that when we enlarge our view of the world we deepen our understanding of our own lives. Through a journey of discovery, the silk road.
