- Colección:
- Global music series
- Autor / Intérprete:
- Stone, Ruth M.
- Datos de edición:
- Oxford University Press Inc.; New York; 2005
- Temas:
- HERRI MUSIKA
SOINU-TRESNA
- Situación:
- XIV / 5
- Notas:
- Liburu honek berekin CD bat du
- Contenido:
- Contents
Foreword....xi
Preface....xiii
CD Track List....xv
1. Traveling to West Africa....1
Journeys........1
Tools........9
West Africa in Perspective........11
Music in the Arts and Life........15
Style Areas........18
Ideas about Performance........18
Musical Instruments........19
Conclusion........20
2. Performance Facets....22
Vocal Facets in Epic Performance........25
Instrmental Facets in Horn Ensemble........27
Continuity in Performance: Woni Ensemble........30
Vocal and Instrumental Facets in Bush Clearing Songs........36
Parallels in the Arts........39
Faceting: Cutting the Edge........40
Cloth Pattern........40
Masks and Carved Figures........42
Greeting Sequences........42
Obscuring Facets........44
3. Voices: Layered Tone Colors....47
Timbre in African Music........47
Instruments: The Sounds of a Triangular Framezither........52
The Centrality of the Voice........54
Instruments: Musical Bow........54
Sound Texture in Epic........56
Social Resonance........61
Other Timbral Dimensions of Sound........61
Symbolic Association of Tone Color........62
Cloth Color........63
4. Part-Counterpart: Call and Response....64
Call and Response Variations........64
Nonoverlapping Call and Response........65
Rice Planting Song........65
Children's Counting Song........66
Kpelle Rubber Camp Music........66
Entertainment Love Song........67
Overlapping Call and Response........68
Musical Dramatic Folktale (Chante Fable)........68
Epic Performance........70
Dialogic Relationships........72
Resonance........74
Drummer-Supporting Drummer........74
Gifts that Keep the Performance Going........74
Chief-Counterpart........76
Poro-Sande........77
5. Time and Polyrithm....79
A Master Drummer's Life History........79
Fitting the Pieces Together........84
Rhythmic Patterns in the Epic........85
Contingency........85
Action........88
Inner Time........89
Kpelle Performance in Liberia........89
The Island of Lamu, East Africa........89
The Shona of Southern Africa........90
The Spiritual World........90
The Larger Process........91
Life History........92
Time in Local Life........93
Balancing the Qualitative and Quantitative........93
6. Surveying the Trip: Cutting the Edge....93
Central Themes........95
Glossary....99
References....102
Resources....104
Index....108
- ISBN:
- ISBN: 0-19-514499-6 (cloth: acid-free paper); ISBN: 0-19-514500-3 (pbk: acid-free paper)
- Medidas:
- 21; 14
