MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to World Music
Art: Praetorius Trombones 1614-1620 Syntagma Musicum · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. George Ruckert
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 9 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 21M.030 · Spring 2013 · Study here
- 21M.030 · Fall 2006 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21M.030 Introduction to World Music, Fall 2006, Prof. George Ruckert — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Assignments
- Guidelines for Formatting Papers Download
- Assignment Description Download
- “Samba: Brazil’s Defining Personality” by Aaron Sarfati Download
- “Maninka Music in Guinea” by anonymous student Download
- “The Samba Experience” by Aaron Sarfati Download
- “Ba Cissoko” by anonymous student Download
Study Materials
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. George Ruckert, 21M.030 Introduction to World Music, Fall 2006.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2006 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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