The Anthropology of MusicNorthwestern University Press, 1 Des 1964 - 376 halaman In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior—one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the sound-analysis of music from its cultural context of people thinking, acting, and creating. The study begins with a review of the various approaches in ethnomusicology. He then suggests a useful and simple research model: ideas about music lead to behavior related to music and this behavior results in musical sound. He explains many aspects and outcomes of this model, and the methods and techniques he suggests are useful to anyone doing field work. Further chapters provide a cross-cultural round-up of concepts about music, physical and verbal behavior related to music, the role of the musician, and the learning and composing of music. The Anthropology of Music illuminates much of interest to musicologists but to social scientists in general as well. |
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... notes: Yet, while recognizing the diversity of musical languages, we must also admit that these languages have important characteristies in common. The most important of these, and the one to which least attention has been paid, is the ...
... notes: Yet, while recognizing the diversity of musical languages, we must also admit that these languages have important characteristies in common. The most important of these, and the one to which least attention has been paid, is the ...
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... notes are strung out along a strand of time and certain musical phrases have come to be closely associated with a theme or message. ... I would then say that conveyance of knowledge is not the primary concern of the nonlinguistic arts ...
... notes are strung out along a strand of time and certain musical phrases have come to be closely associated with a theme or message. ... I would then say that conveyance of knowledge is not the primary concern of the nonlinguistic arts ...
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... note that although the goal of the artist or musician is a product which is visually or aurally tangible, he must behave in order to produce that product. An understanding of the product therefore inevitably involves an understanding of ...
... note that although the goal of the artist or musician is a product which is visually or aurally tangible, he must behave in order to produce that product. An understanding of the product therefore inevitably involves an understanding of ...
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... note that both definitions proceed from the premise that music need only be defined in Western terms. Music in other cultures is not necessarily concerned with beauty as such; the problem of the expression of ideas and emotions through ...
... note that both definitions proceed from the premise that music need only be defined in Western terms. Music in other cultures is not necessarily concerned with beauty as such; the problem of the expression of ideas and emotions through ...
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... lever until the playing of the composition they were hearing was at the rate they deemed proper. The lever settings given by this group were generally in the neighborhood of 116 quarter-notes 28 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC.
... lever until the playing of the composition they were hearing was at the rate they deemed proper. The lever settings given by this group were generally in the neighborhood of 116 quarter-notes 28 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MUSIC.
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