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Trends in World Music Analysis New Directions in World Music Analysis

Edited By Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, Noé Dinnerstein Copyright 2022
    356 Pages 113 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    356 Pages 113 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    356 Pages 113 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This volume brings together a group of analytical chapters exploring traditional genres and styles of world music, capturing a vibrant and expanding field of research. These contributors, drawn from the forefront of researchers in world music analysis, seek to break down barriers and build bridges between scholarly disciplines, musical repertoires, and cultural traditions. Covering a wide range of genres, styles, and performers, the chapters bring to bear a variety of methodologies, including indigenous theoretical perspectives, Western music theory, and interdisciplinary techniques rooted in the cognitive and computational sciences.

    With contributors addressing music traditions from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, this volume captures the many current directions in the analysis of world music, offering a state of the fi eld and demonstrating the expansion of possibilities created by this area of research.

              Introduction

    1. Phenomenology of Segah Mugham Creativity on the Tar

      2. Polina Dessiatnichenko

    2. Rhythm, Form, and Performance in Ladakhi Traditional Songs

      3. Noé Dinnerstein

    3. Moving to the Music: Quantity of Motion as a Tool to Study North Indian Raga Performance

      4. Laura Leante

    4. From Dusk till Dawn: Analysis of Cretan Music Festivities

      5. Andre Holzapfel

    5. The Continua of Sound Qualities for Tanya Tagaq’s Katajjaq Sounds

      6. Kristi Hardman

    6. Representing and Experiencing Rhythm in Drumming from Santiago de Cuba

      7. Andy McGraw and Fernando Benadon

    7. Tapping to Recordings of Bulgarian Music: A Cross-Cultural Study of Meter and Tempo

      8. Daniel Goldberg

    8. Tempo, Meter, and Form: An Analysis of "Dansa" from Mali

      9. Rainer Polak and Justin London

    9. Mapping Timbral Surfaces in Alpine Yodeling: New Directions in the Analysis of Tone Color for Unaccompanied Vocal Music

      10. Lawrence Beaumont Shuster and Yannick Wey

    10. Creative Processes in Improvising Jíbaro Décima

      11. Jaime O. Bofill Calero

    11. "Da mihi manum": An Irish Arcanum

      12. Áine Heneghan

    12. Toward a Theory of İka: The Rhythmic Identity of Melody in Late Eighteenth-Century Turkish Art Music

      13. Nikolaus Grill and Stefan Pohlit

    13. Applying the Generative Theory of Tonal Music to World Music Idioms: An Analytical Approach to the Polyphonic Singing of Epirus

      14. Costas Tsougras

    14. Language Models and World Music Analysis

            Somangshu Mukherji

    Biography

    Lawrence Beaumont Shuster is Lecturer in Music Theory at Cornell University.

    Somangshu Mukherji is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan.

    Noé Dinnerstein is Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

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