| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 434 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
Introduction : Analysis, categorization and theory of musics of the world / Michael Tenzer -- Part I. Sectional Periodicities -- Chapter 1. Navā'i, a musical genre of Northeastern Iran / Stephen Blum -- Chapter 2. How to spin a good horo : melody, mode and musicianship in the composition of Bulgarian dance tunes / Donna A. Buchanan and Stuart Folse -- Chapter 3. Flamenco in focus : an analysis of a performance of Soleares / Peter Manuel -- Chapter 4. An Afro-Cuban Batá piece for Obatalá, king of the white cloth / Robin Moore and Elizabeth Sayre -- Part II. Isoperiodicity -- Chapter 5. Aka polyphony : music, theory, back and forth / Susanne Fürniss -- Chapter 6. Oleg Tumulilingan : layers of time and melody in Balinese music / Michael Tenzer -- Chapter 7. Flexing the frame in Javanese gamelan music : playfulness in a performance of Ladrang Pangkur / R. Anderson Sutton and Roger R. Vetter -- Part III. Linear Composition in Periodic Contexts -- Chapter 8. "Yang's Eight Pieces" : composing a musical set-piece in a Chinese local opera tradition / Jonathan P.J. Stock -- Chapter 9. Architectonic composition in South Indian classical music : the "Navaragamalika Varnam" / Robert Morris -- Chapter 10. Mozart : Piano concerto no. 17 in G major, K. 453, Movement I / William Benjamin -- Chapter 11. Autonomy and dialogue in Elliott Carter's Enchanted preludes / John Roeder |
| Summary |
Assembles eleven distinguished writers on music to discuss the ingenuity with which sound is organized in musical traditions all over the world. This work contains an introductory chapter which proposes ways to think about musical structures cross-culturally. It also contains recordings, notations, diagrams, and imaginative descriptions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World music -- Analysis, appreciation
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MUSIC -- History & Criticism.
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World music -- Analysis, appreciation
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Weltmusik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tenzer, Michael, editor
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| LC no. |
2005016398 |
| ISBN |
9780199864843 |
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0199864845 |
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9780195346411 |
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0195346416 |
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0195177886 |
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9780195177886 |
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0195177894 |
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9780195177893 |
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9786610845095 |
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6610845093 |
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