Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Name: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music
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ISBN: 9780195384574

ISBN-10: 0195384571

ISBN-13: 9780195384574

Edition: 2011

Authors: Michael Tenzer, John Roeder

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Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Musicpresents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts, deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the contexts in which the music is created and performed, and then hone in on elucidating how the music works as sound in process. Accompanying the explanatory prose is a wealth of diagrams, transcriptions, recordings, and (online) multimedia presentations, all intended to convey the richness, beauty, and ingenuity of their subjects. The music ranges across geography and cultures--court music of Japan and medieval Europe, pagode song from…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Michael Tenzer teaches at the University of British Columbia and is a recognized authority on Balinese gamelan. He has studied and performed with teachers and groups all over Bali since 1977. Tenzer holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from the UC Berkeley, and taught at Yale from 1986—96.



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Introduction




Analytical Encounters with Music in Diverse Cultures



Surface and Deep Structure in the Togaku Ensemble of Japanese Court Music (Gagaku)




Form, Counterpoint, and Meaning in a Fourteenth-Century French Courtly Song




Nuances of Continual Variation in the Brazilian Pagode Song "Sorriso Aberto"




Thelonious Monk's Harmony, Rhythm, and Pianism




Dynamics of Melodic Discourse in Indian Music: Budhaditya Mukherjee's Alap in Rag Puriya-Kalyan




Timbre-and-Form: The BSC and die Boston Improvising Community




Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P'unpnut) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society




Strophic Form and Asymmetrical Repetition in Four American Indian Songs




Musical Form and Style in Murriny Patha Djanba Songs at Wadeye (Northern Territory, Australia)




Cross-Cultural Analytical Comparisons



Integrating Music: Personal and Global Transformations




Combining Sounds to Reinvent the "World: "World Music, Sociology, and Musical Analysis




A Cross-Cultural Topology of Musical Time: Afterword to the Present Book and to Analytical Studies in World Music (2006)



Contributors


Index