Closing the Gap Between Different Cultures Through Music

Closing the Gap Between Different Cultures Through Music

Michael Ventura

Abstract

The objective of my Culminating Experience project was to investigate various musical cultures around the world and learn how to compose in these different styles. During my research I learned about the importance of simple musical ideas and the communities that music has been born from. By listening to music, interviewing musicians from across the globe, and practicing by writing in these different styles, I was able to integrate these sounds into my ear, slowly but surely finding ways to combine it with Jazz music. Jazz itself comes from marginalized communities formed a style of music that they felt reflected the struggles of their time, just as African slaves did in Cuba when they could not express their religions, or just as the Roma communities in Spain when they were creating Flamenco music. With my research I sought to find how related all this music really is while also writing music that combined different compositional elements I learned from these different styles.

Publication Date

7-1-2023

Campus

Valencia (Spain) Campus

Closing the Gap Between Different Cultures Through Music

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