Analytical studies in world music
Michael Tenzer (Editor)
This text assembles 11 distinguished writers on music to discuss the ingenuity with which sound is organized in musical traditions all over the world. It contains an introductory chapter which proposes ways to think about musical structures cross-culturally
1 online resource (451 p.)
9780198039587, 0198039581
1327516381
CHAPTER 5 Aka Polyphony: Music, Theory, Back and ForthCHAPTER 6 Oleg Tumulilingan: Layers of Time and Melody in Balinese Music; CHAPTER 7 Flexing the Frame in Javanese Gamelan Music: Playfulness in a Performance of Ladrang Pangkur; PART III: LINEAR COMPOSITION IN PERIODIC CONTEXTS; CHAPTER 8 "Yang's Eight Pieces": Composing a Musical Set-Piece in a Chinese Local Opera Tradition; CHAPTER 9 Architectonic Composition in South Indian Classical Music: The "Navaragamalika Varnam"; CHAPTER 10 Mozart: Piano Concerto No.17 in G Major, K. 453, Movement I CHAPTER 11 Autonomy and Dialogue in Elliott Carter's Enchanted PreludesContents of the Compact Disk; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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