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Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

Asian, African, and Euro-American Perspectives

Richard (Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies, Harvard University) Wolf & Christopher (Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University) Hasty & Stephen (Professor of Music, Professor of Music, City University of New York) Blum

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

Asian, African, and Euro-American Perspectives

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

 

Through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories, Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm responds to the critical need for developing richer ways of describing rhythm in all its complexity.


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Beschrijving Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical studies between universalistic and culturally relevant approaches to the study of rhythm. Reacting to commonplace ideas in (Western) music pedagogy, the essays explore a range of perspectives on rhythm: its status as an "element" of music that can be usefully abstracted from timbre, tone, and harmony; its connotations of regularity (or, by contrast, that rhythm is what we hear against the grain of background regularity); and its special embodiment in percussion parts. Unique among studies of musical rhythm, the collection directs close attention to ways performers and listeners conceptualize aspects of rhythm and questions many received categories for describing rhythm. By drawing the ear and the mind to tensions, distinctions, and aesthetic principles that might otherwise be overlooked, this focus on local concepts enables the listener to dispel assumptions about how music works "in general." Readers may walk away with a few surprises, become more aware of their assumptions, and/or think of new ways to shock their students out of complacency.


ISBN
9780190841485
Pagina's
440
Verschenen
NUR
660
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Muziek