Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder

Brings together the fields of music composition, ethnomusicology and music theory
Focuses on world music genres as music and offers deeper analysis than that generally available
Includes innovative chapters focusing on the explicit comparison of music across cultures
Perfect for college music theory or history classes that want to introduce world music in a technical, analytical way
Includes Western and non-Western musics together-a border-erasing perspective
Promotes the integration of ethnomusicology into the core mission of training students as musicians

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder

Description

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents 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 Brazil, solos by the jazz pianist Thelonius Monk and by the sitar master Budhaditya Mukherjee, form-and-timbre improvisations of a Boston sound collective, South Korean folk drumming, and the ceremonial music of indigenous cultures in North American and Australia--much of which has never been so thoroughly analyzed before. Thus the essays diversify and expand the scope of this book's companion volume, Analytical Studies in World Music, to all inhabited continents and many of its greatest musical traditions. An introduction and an afterword point out common analytical approaches, and present a new way to classify music according to its temporal organization. Two special chapters consider the juxtaposition of music from different cultures: of world music traditions and popular music genres, and of Balinese music and European Art music, raising provocative questions about the musical encounters and fusions of today's interconnected world. For everyone listening in wonderment to the richness of world music, whether listener, creator, or performer, this book will be an invaluable resource and a fount of inspiration.

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder

About the Companion Website

Introduction, John Roeder

Part I: Analytical Encounters with Music in Diverse Cultures

1. Surface and Deep Structure in the Tôgaku Ensemble of Japanese Court Music (Gagaku). Naoko Terauchi

2. Form, Counterpoint, and Meaning in a Fourteenth-Century French Courtly Song.
Elizabeth Eva Leach

3. Nuances of Continual Variation in the Brazilian Pagode Song "Sorriso Aberto".
Jason Stanyek and Fabio Oliveira

4. Thelonious Monk's Harmony, Rhythm, and Pianism. Evan Ziporyn and Michael Tenzer

5. Dynamics of Melodic Discourse in Indian Music: Budhaditya Mukherjee's ?l?p in R?g P?riy?-Kaly?n. Richard Widdess

6. Timbre-and-Form: The BSC and the Boston Improvising Community, Lou Bunk

7. Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P'ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness in South Korean Village Society. Nathan Hesselink

8. Strophic Form and Asymmetrical Repetition in Four American Indian Songs.
Victoria Lindsay Levine and Bruno Nettl

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

Part II: Cross-Cultural Analytical Comparisons

10. Integrating Music: Personal and Global Transformations. Michael Tenzer

11. Combining Sounds to Reinvent the World: World Music, Sociology, and Musical
Analysis. Simha Arom and Denis-Constant Martin

Afterword: A Cross-Cultural Topology of Musical Time. Michael Tenzer

Contributors

Index

Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music

Edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder

Author Information

Michael Tenzer is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two previous books, Balinese Music (Periplus, 1991 [1998, 2nd. Ed.]) and Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth Century Balinese Music (Chicago 2000) which received the 34th ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Society for Ethnomusicology's Merriam Prize. He edited this book's predecessor, Analytical Studies in World Music (Oxford 2006). The first western composer to create new music for Balinese groups in Bali, his compositions in diverse genres have been commissioned, performed and acclaimed internationally. In 2009 New World Records released a CD of his music, Let Others Name You.
John Roeder, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, is a music theorist who specializes in explaining music outside the traditional Western canon, especially contemporary art music and world music. He focuses on basic processes of pitch and rhythm, but he has also developed mathematical and computational models of music, and has directed research into the preservation of the digital records of art, government, and science.

Contributors:

Simha Arom - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris).

Lou Bunk - Franklin Pierce University

Linda Barwick - University of Sydney.

Nathan Hesselink - University of British Columbia.

Elizabeth Eva Leach - University of Oxford

Victoria Lindsay Levine - Colorado College

Denis-Constant Martin - University of Bordeaux

Bruno Nettl - University of Illinois

Terauchi Naoko - Kobe University, Japan

Fabio Oliveira Federal University of Goiás, Brazil

John Roeder - University of British Columbia

Jason Stanyek

Michael Tenzer - University of British Columbia

Richard Widdess - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Evan Ziporyn - Massachusetts Institute of Technology