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Author: Richard Widdess
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-07-07
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521340717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fifth volume of Musica Asiatica is a collection of essays on the music of East Asia.
Author: Allan Marett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-16
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780521390507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the sixth volume in a series of books devoted to the history, documentation and analysis of music in Asia. Four essays are dedicated to documents from the past: fifth-century Korean tomb paintings; tenth-century Chinese scores for lute; eighth-century Japanese documents; early Chinese sutras on the perception of sound. The remainder concern contemporary documents: the notations of the Japanese end-blown flute (shakuhachi) and lute (biwa) and their relationship to performance; acoustical analysis of contemporary shakuhachi. The focus on musical documents, whether ancient or modern, provides a unifying thread which renders this volume unique in the ethnomusicological literature on East Asian music.
Author: Laurence Picken
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1984-03-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521278379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this fourth volume of studies in the historical musicology and organology of Asia, Jonathan Condit completes his survey of Korean scores in mensural notation, and Roger Blench examines the morphology and distribution of sub-Saharan musical instruments of North African, Middle Eastern, and Asian origin.
Author: R. F. Wolpert
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1990-06-29
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780521347761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fifth volume in this study of the music of the Tang Court.
Author: Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 749
ISBN-13: 1316297756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine maritime and land-based networks of long-distance trade and migration in agricultural and nomadic societies, and the transmission and exchange of cultural forms, scientific knowledge, technologies, and text-based religious systems that accompanied these. The final section surveys the development of centralized regional states and empires in both the eastern and western hemispheres. Together these essays by an international team of leading authors show how processes furthering cultural, commercial, and political integration within and between various regions of the world made this millennium a 'proto-global' era.
Author: Michael Tenzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-06
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0199874700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from across the world, concentrating on how the music works as sound in process. It suggests analytical approaches that apply across cultures, proposes a new way of classifying music, and treats provocative questions about the juxtaposition of music from different cultures.
Author: E. Rust
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-08-23
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 0313033358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Despite the world-wide association of music and dance with religion, this is the first full-length study of the subject from a global perspective. The work consists of 3,816 references divided among 37 chapters. It covers tribal, regional, and global religions and such subjects as shamanism, liturgical dance, healing, and the relationship of music, mathematics, and mysticism. The referenced materials display such diverse approaches as analysis of music and dance, description of context, direct experience, observation, and speculation. The references address topics from such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, history, linguistics, musicology, ethnomusicology, theology, medicine, semiotics, and computer technology. Chapter 1 consists of general references to religious music and dance. The remaining 36 chapters are organized according to major geographical areas. Most chapters begin with general reference works and bibliographies, then continue with topics specific to the region or religion. This book will be of use to anyone with an interest in music, dance, religion, or culture.
Author: Dusadee Swangviboonpong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1351546848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thai classical singing is a genre that blossomed during the golden age of music in the royal court at Bangkok during the nineteenth century. It took a variety of forms including unaccompanied songs used for narration in plays, instrumental music that was used to accompany mimed actions, and songs of entertainment accompanied by an instrumental ensemble. Today, Thai classical singing is found widely outside the court, and its influence is evident in many traditional songs. This book is the first in English to provide a detailed study of Thai classical singing. Dusadee Swangviboonpong discusses the historical background to this long-established genre, the vocal techniques that it employs, the contexts in which it is performed, the degree of improvisation that performers use, the setting of texts and the methods used to teach the songs. Teaching methods still tend to focus on oral transmission, although there have been recent attempts by the Thai authorities to standardize the way singing is taught and practised. These controls are, argues the author, a threat to the the variety in style and approach that has characterised this music and kept it alive. The book features transcriptions of Thai classical songs and a glossary of Thai terms, so making it a useful introduction to the genre.
