Rob's courses

Applied Ethnomusicology (MUMIN 3902: 2 hours)
This course provides the philosophy and tools for cross-cultural music ministry. Areas covered include teaching other missionaries about music and missions, music ministry program planning and strategies, music workshops, project management styles, working within the context of a mission, and strategies for dissemination of indigenous Christian music. It can be taken by missionaries without formal musical training.
June 6-10, daily 9:00 am to 11:50 and 1:00 pm to 3:50 pm

Field of Ethnomusicology/Anthropology of Music (MUMIN 3923: 3 hours)
This course provides an overview of the major issues and scholars in the field of ethnomusicology, with special emphasis on studies of music culture. The practical usefulness of this for the music missionary is profound since it provides methods to discover answers to essential questions relating to the encouragement of indigenous hymnodies.
June 13-23, daily except for weekends 9:00 am to 11:50 am and 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Analysis of Non-Western Music (MUMIN 3913: 3 hours)
Building on the generative analysis of Vida Chenoweth with the addition of computer-aided transcription and analysis, the course provides the student with the ability to analyze a non-Western music system so that he or she can compose new melodies within that system. The purpose is to aid the student in becoming bi-musical and to make it possible to create Christian songs within a music system without using previously existing melodies. Undergraduate Music Theory courses or permission of instructor is required.
July 5-15, daily except for weekends 9:00 am to 11:50 am and 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm