Analytical Studies in World MusicMichael Tenzer Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ingenious music analyses. Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere. |
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SECTIONAL PERIODICITIES POETRY SONG RITUAL | 39 |
ISOPERIODICITY FORM STRICT TO DISCURSIVE WITH VARIATIONS | 161 |
LINEAR COMPOSITION IN PERIODIC CONTEXTS | 273 |
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accompaniment analysis appears basic beat become beginning cadence called cello chapter chord clave close complex composer composition Continued contrast create culture cycle dance described distinctive drum example figure final flamenco flute four fourth gamelan gong gongan heard horo important improvisation Indian instruments intervals irama itótele iyá Javanese kind lead listeners main melody major material means measure meter move musicians notation notes opening particular passage pattern performance periodicity phrase piece pitch played players practice present Press provides raga recording reference repeated repertoire repetition represent rhythm rhythmic scale shift shows singer singing solo song sound structure style sung syllables takes tempo third tion tonal tone tonic track tradition transcription tune types University variation varied verse vocal voice Western
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Page 4 - ... compare it to a journey leading through the boundless reaches of the external world, on and on, farther and farther. Variations also constitute a journey, but not through the external world. You recall Pascal's pensee about how man lives between the abyss of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. The journey of the variation form leads to that second infinity, the infinity of internal variety concealed in all things.