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It may seem strange that we're discussing music from a Broadway production in this class. The Lion King especially since it's based on a popular Hollywood movie. I mean music performed for Broadway theater in the heart of New York city surely would seem to be in the western tradition of popular music and not have much in common with the music we have been studying in this course such as gamelan music of Indonesia or Zulu chants of South Africa music that developed outside the western tradition of Europe and America. But in fact, musicians have a long-standing tradition of borrowing from one another's cultures. And this production's director intentionally included both western and non-western music. That way some of the rhythms, instruments, harmonies typical of non-western music contrast with and complement popular music more familiar to audiences in North America and Europe, music like rock, jazz, or Broadway style show tunes. So I want to spend the rest of this class and most of the next one on the music from the show The Lion King as a way of summarizing some of the technical distinctions between typical western music and the nonwestern music that we've been studying. Now, the African influence on the music is clear. The story takes place in Africa. So the director got a South African composer to write songs with a distinctly African sound. And the songs even include words from African languages. But we'll get back to the African influence later. First, let's turn to the music that was written for the shadow puppet scenes in The Lion King music based on the Indonesian music used in the shadow puppet theater of that region.
生词摘录：
1.Broadway: 百老汇
2.The Lion King: 狮子王
3.Hollywood: 好莱坞
4.gamelan: 加麦兰(一组印尼的民族管弦乐器)
5.Indonesia: 印度尼西亚
6.Zulu: 祖鲁人的
7.chant: n. 旋律，歌曲
8.long-standing: adj. 长期的，长久的
9.intentionally: adv. 有意地，故意地
10.tune: n. 曲调，调子
11.composer: n. 作曲家
12.shadow: n. 影子
13.puppet: n. 木偶
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