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1 What your class asks
This lesson asks you to identify and describe the ways music is used in a community, and to identify, by performing or listening, musical forms from different communities, times and places. The museum offers one case from the Islamic world: a festival of sacred music in Fez. The performing, the listening and your own community are for your class to bring. 1
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- C3.1 identify and describe ways in which music can be used in the community […]
- C3.2 identify, through performing and/or listening, a variety of musical forms or pieces from different communities, times, and places […]
2 The lesson
Why is music used in a community?
The expectations ask you to describe ways music is used. Think of three questions to put to any community: who makes the music, who listens to it, and what it does for the people who gather around it.
Go deeper
Think about it
The festival puts the music of different faiths on the same stages. What could people in a town learn by listening to music that is not their own, and why might listening teach what talking cannot?
Into the museum
- The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music: the year it began and where in the city it is held.
- Fez: the city that hosts it, as the museum's records describe it.
Try this
Read about the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. Draw a chart with two columns, "what I read" and "our community", and fill the first from your reading and the second with what music is used for in your life.
3 Carry it further
Where this lesson leads in the museum.
4 Check yourself
Nothing here is marked or sent anywhere. It is for you.
In your own words: what does Fez Festival of World Sacred Music have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
A festival that gathers sacred music. The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music is an annual festival in Fez, begun in 1994, that brings together Sufi chants, qawwali and hymns with the music of other faiths on the stages of the old city. What does music gather people for in your own community?
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