Ethnomusicology
Understand cultures through the music they make and why.
~$100Cost to start
ModerateDifficulty
1–3 hrTime / session
Is it you?
Nobody has scored this against your answers yet. 1–3 hr at a time, $100 to find out whether it sticks.
NoiseLoudSpaceTiny
The path14 quests
ASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$100
- Pick one tradition and find its recordings
- Get headphones you can wear for hours
Then the quests
- Listen deeply to music from a culture new to you
- Get a notebook and log what you hear
- Describe a piece's rhythm, scale and instruments
Same shape of evening, different thing to hold at the end. Or follow a tag sideways.
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