Study Guides

Note: The following study guides are part of a work in progress, a manual of intercultural music making titled 'Orchestrating the World. All materials here are the property of the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, and may be utilized for personal education purposes only.

There are two kinds of entries - the guides marked 'general interest' are for laypeople, composers, and musicians alike. Those marked 'composers and musicians' have everything the general interest guides have, but in addition have technical information beyond the grasp of most non-musicians.

Further we have categorized the guides into non-western cultural interest areas, to whatever extent possible.

Far East - Korea, Japan, etc

Far Eastern Musical Marriages
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Korean Music, the Kayagum, and Western Forces
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Scottish Highland Bagpipes and Japanese Taiko Drums
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

China

Chinese-Western Musical Bridges
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Classical Western and Classical Chinese
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Western New Music and Chinese Sensibilities
General Interest

India and Southeast Asia

Tabla and Orchestra
General Interest

Indian-Western Fusions
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Gamelan Music and the West
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Middle and Near East

Celtic and Iranian Bridges
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Islamic Choral Music & Aboriginal Music: Unique Bridges
General Interest

Persian Influenced Intercultural Music
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Africa

Afro-Latin Fusions
General Interest

Latin America

Intercultural Orchestra Spiced with Tango and Andean music
General Interest
Composers and Musicians

Other Topics

World Music and Jazz Improv
General Interest

Planetary Spirits - Music of the Whole Spooky World
General Interest
Musicians