Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tenzer, Michael; Roeder, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from across the world, concentrating on how the music works as sound in process. It suggests analytical approaches that apply across cultures, proposes a new way of classifying music, and treats provocative questions about the juxtaposition of music from different cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199874705
• Artikelnr.: 38135736

Autorenporträt

Michael Tenzer is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two previous books, Balinese Music (Periplus, 1991 [1998, 2nd. Ed.]) and Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth Century Balinese Music (Chicago 2000) which received the 34th ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Society for Ethnomusicology's Merriam Prize. He edited this book's predecessor, Analytical Studies in World Music (Oxford 2006). The first western composer to create new music for Balinese groups in Bali, his compositions in diverse genres have been commissioned, performed and acclaimed internationally. In 2009 New World Records released a CD of his music, Let Others Name You. John Roeder, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, is a music theorist who specializes in explaining music outside the traditional Western canon, especially contemporary art music and world music.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Companion Website
* Introduction, John Roeder
* Part I: Analytical Encounters with Music in Diverse Cultures
* 1. Surface and Deep Structure in the Tôgaku Ensemble of Japanese
Court Music (Gagaku). Naoko Terauchi
* 2. Form, Counterpoint, and Meaning in a Fourteenth-Century French
Courtly Song.
* Eva Elizabeth Leach
* 3. Nuances of Continual Variation in the Brazilian Pagode Song
"Sorriso Aberto ".
* Jason Stanyek and Fabio Oliveira
* 4. Thelonious Monk's Harmony, Rhythm, and Pianism. Evan Ziporyn and
Michael Tenzer
* 5. Dynamics of Melodic Discourse in Indian Music: Budhaditya
Mukherjee's ?l?p in R?g P?riy?-Kaly?n. Richard Widdess
* 6. Timbre-and-Form: The BSC and the Boston Improvising Community, Lou
Bunk
* 7. Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P'ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of
Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society. Nathan
Hesselink
* 8. Strophic Form and Asymmetrical Repetition in Four American Indian
Songs.
* Victoria Lindsay Levine and Bruno Nettl
* 9. Musical Form and