The Other Classical Musics by Church, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Michael Church

Parallels Definitions Our selection Contrast and congruence Erosion and conservation The new kaleidoscope

1: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam: Terry E. Miller

History (Mis)understanding the music Creating the music Forms Tunings, scales, modes Preserving tradition Performance contexts Vietnam Chamber music

2: Java: Neil Sorrell

Form, shape, function Performance Tuning Systems The canon Notation Notation and theory in practice: a case study Music theory Today Influences

3: Japan: David W. Hughes

Gagaku, noh and kabuki The shakuhachi and its music The koto and its music Musical aspects of Japanese classical genres

Notation and transmission Scale and mode Togaku Noh Nagauta (and most other shamisen genres), shakuhachi, koto Melody and polyphony Rhythm and metre Tone colour and timbral preferences

Musical forms

Togaku Noh Nagauta Shakuhachi honkyoku

Japan's classical musics today

4: China: The Guqin Zither: Frank Kouwenhoven

Qin and concepts of classical music in China A static tradition? The seven-stringed zither in earliest times The birth of modern qin ideology From mountains and rivers to birds and trees Qin music from Tang to modern times Narration, musical structure, vocal aspects and freedom of rhythm Playing and players in modern times

5: Chinese Opera: Terry E. Miller & Michael Church

History Visual elements Kunqu Jingju, or Beijing Opera

6: North India: Richard Widdess

Raga and tala, composition and improvisation Invasions, empires, Independence Voices and instruments

7: South India: Jonathan Katz

History The classical and canonical Concerts and programmes Melody and rāga Rhythm and tāla Voices and instruments

8: Mande Jaliyaa: Roderic Knight

Mande music and its history From kingdoms to colonies The instruments of jaliyaa Tonal material of Mande music Structure of jaliyaa Aesthetics of Mande music Metre and rhythm in jaliyaa Learning jaliyaa Jaliyaa today Conclusion

9: North American Jazz: Scott DeVeaux

Forms History Performance

10: Europe: Ivan Hewett

From sound to symbol Music as divine euphony Spectacle, drama, dance Music in the market-place Things fall apart

11: North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean: Andalusian Music: Dwight F. Reynolds

History Forms Performance Modes, rhythms and the nūba Instruments Today

12: The Eastern Arab World: Scott Marcus

Early history Recent history Melodic and rhythmic modes: Maqām and Īqā' Maqqām Nahqāwand Īqā' Instruments Regionality highlighted in two portraits Today

13: Turkey: Robert Labaree

A street-level survey of Turkish music History

A Euro-Ottoman symbiosis4 Diversity as an Ottoman policy

The Ottoman Empire and its Mediterranean inheritance Music and the end of the Ottoman Empire Turkish makam music Makam: melodic system, melodic strategy, and melodic family Usul: the rhythmic mould Musical form Instruments The practice of Turkish makam music: a summary and supplement Turkish makam in the world

14: Iran: Ameneh Youssefzadeh

Historical background The Qajar era (1785-1925) The Pahlavi era (1925-79) The revolution of 1978-9 to today Canon Instruments Music in Iran today

15: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan: Will Sumits

History Central Asian maqom during the Soviet era Maqom in Central Asia today Instruments

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