Thinking Musically Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Name: Thinking Musically Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
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ISBN: 9780195136647

ISBN-10: 0195136640

ISBN-13: 9780195136647

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bonnie C. Wade

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Thinking Musically is the central volume in the Global Music Series. Designed for undergraduates and general readers with little or no background in music, it incorporates music from many diverse cultures--including the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe--and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure--covering historical information and traditions as they relate to the present--and comes with an audio CD of musical examples discussed in the text. The case…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Bonnie Wade earned her B.Mus. from Boston University in 1963, her M.A. in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1967, and her PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1971. She taught at Brown University until 1975, when she moved to to the University of California Berkeley, where she is professor of music.



Foreword


Preface


CD Track List



Thinking about Music


People


Music Makers


Listeners


Music


In Terms of Sound


Calling Something "Music"


Musical Values


Meaning


Music and Textual Meaning


Music as Text


Use


Transmission


Oral and Aural Transmision


Written Transmission



Thinking about Instruments


Instruments as Objects


Ideas about Types of Instruments


Ideas about Particular Instruments


Spiritual Associations


Associations of Gender and Sexuality


Cultural Status


Aesthetic Value


Item of Technology


Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound


Instruments in Music


Instrumental Capacity


Ideas about Ensemble


Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Sound Ideals


Musical Roles



Thinking about Time


Rhythm


Pulse


Irregular Durations


Rhythm for the Text Alone


Organizing Time into Units


Duple and Triple Meters


Simple and Compound Meters


Additive Meters


South Indian Tala


Southeast Asian Colotomic Structure


North Indian Tala


Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes


Korean Changdan


African Polyrhythm


Music in the African Diaspora


Speed



Thinking about Pitch


Pitch


Pitch Names


Syllables


Numbers


Letters


Setting the Pitch


Who Sets the Pitch


Pitch Placement


Thinking Horizontally


Intervals


Naming Intervals


Microtones


Scales


The Chromatic Scale


Diatonic Scales


The "Oriental" Scale


Number of Pitches in an Octave


Pitch Functions


Mode


Thinking Vertically


Tone Clusters


Naming Vertical Intervals


Dissonance and Consonance


Functional Harmony


Thinking Horizontally and Vertically


Performing One Melody


Solo and in Unison


Interlocking Parts


Rounds


Heterophony


Performing One Melody with Another Part


Melody and Drone


Homophony


Performing Multiple Melodies


Polyphony


Melody and Ostinato



Thinking about Structure


Improvising and Composing


Putting Something Significant First


North Indian Instrumental Form


Sonata Form


Telling the Story


Music for the Moment


Part-Counterpart


Contrasting Instrumentation


Through-composed Music


Strophic Form


Responding to the Context


Expectation for Audience-Performer Interaction


The Need for Intra-ensemble Interaction


The Ritual Context


A Series of Changdan


Call and Response


Music and Movement


Coming to the end


Aesthetic choice and intellectual play


Contrasting Rhythmic Modes


Contrasting Melodic Modes


Social Values



Thinking about Issues


Music and Culture Contact


A Focus on Influences


A Focus on Boundaries


Gender


The National Community


Other Groups


Authenticity


Transcending Boundaries


The Mass Media


Transnationalization


The Local



Thinking about Fieldwork


Picking a Project


Planning the Project


Doing the Project


Finishing the Project


Glossary of Musical Terms


References


Resources


Index