List some of the conclusions about European music in general presented throughout this section in WOM. (Answers may vary.)
What will be an ideal response?
- "Compared with music throughout the rest of the world, most music in Europe has relatively simple symmetrical structures in rhythm and overall form."
- "European music tends towards rhythmic organization of even pulses in repeating groups of two or three beats."
- ". . . [M]elodic structures tend toward pairs of melodic ideas (A and B phrases) and repeating structures (such as the strophic song form, i.e., verses with the same repeating melody, as is common in many hymns).
- Melodies tend to be based mostly on a major scale or less commonly on a minor scale and their associated harmonies.
- The concept of independent harmony and harmonic rhythm is a unique European contribution in world music.
- European musics represent a vast diversity and variety of music styles, genres, and associated cultural practices shaped in some degree by common religious and political institutions.
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