College of the Arts 2023-2024 Projects

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• Music (Peter Fielding): Analysis of Visayan/Bisayan/Cebuano Philippine Traditional Vocal Repertoire

  2023-2024 First Year Scholars: Mikkel Cullen
  

  • Project Description

    This project will conduct basic survey of the scales, modes, and pitch collections of Visayan/Bisayan/Cebuano Philippine folk song repertoire. Students will use music notation software to create Kodály-style pitch maps as part of the encyclopedic surveying of these repertoires. Select songs will be sung with solfa syllables, to help assess the pedagogical merits of the repertoire for use in Aural Skills curriculum.

    Rationale:
    In preparation for KSU's Year of Canada in AY 2024-25, this project surveys and appraises the pedagogical value of the traditional vocal repertoire of Canada's third largest source of new permanent residents; namely the Philippines. This work builds on prior multi-lingual Canadian folk song analysis utilizing post-tonal and Kodály techniques. As a pilot study, this analysis will focus on Visayan/Bisayan/Cebuano Philippine folk song repertoire collected by Priscilla Magdamo, under the auspices of the Silliman University; utilizing her six-volume Folk Songs of the Visayas, corresponding field recordings, and her more recent unpublished transcriptions. Research outputs will be of value to the music and academic communities of the Philippines, as well as the broader Filipino diaspora, including those residing in Canada and the United States.

  • Student Outcomes
    1. Grow awareness, appreciation, and understanding of global folk music (focus- Central Visayas, Philippines, Filipino diaspora)
    2. Develop expertise using music notation software to produce publication-level music engravings
    3. Build skills in tonal music theory analysis (scale/mode/collection identification)
    4. Learn about music analysis techniques (tonic-centered Successive-Interval-Array)
       sight singing solmization skills
  • Student Weekly Duties
    1. Weekly consults
    2. Review of repertoire being assessed
    3. Creation of pitch maps using music notation software
  • Modality (Face-to-Face, Hybrid, Online)

    Hybrid

  • Contact

    Dr. Peter Fielding, pfieldin@kennesaw.edu