The Wellsprings of Music
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1961, 1961
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1961 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One / Thoughts and Methods
- I. Preliminaries
- II. The advent of the ethnomusicologist
- III. The ethnomusicologist’s workshop
- IV. The question of origin
- Two / Early Music
- V. The oldest music: tumbling strains
- VI. The oldest music: one-step melodies
- VII. Conservatism and magic
- VIII. Vocal mannerisms
- IX. Instruments
- X. Rhythm and form III
- Three / On the Way
- Growth, personality, art
- Four / The Fate of Secondal and Tertial Patterns
- The widening nucleus — “ triadic and fanfare melodies” — tonal anatomy and physiology — chains — double, triple, quadruple, quintuple and sextuple thirds — skeletons and infixes — pentatonism and heptatonism — German chorale dialect — Landino third — four-line notation — six-five patterns — triadic octaves
- Five / The Fate of Quartal and Quintal Patterns
- Disjunction and conjunction — quartal chains — chains of fifths — hybrids — modulation — culture chance once more
- Six / Centric Melodies Gregorian tenor melodies — the concept of mesè
- Seven / Polyphony
- Vertical and horizontal — distribution — isochronous conductus — parallels — drones — grounds — alternation and canon — Stimmtausch- heterophony
- Eight / Cross- or Polyrhythm
- Independent accompaniment — hemiola — “ syncopation ” Afro-Indian concordances
- Nine / Professional Music and Musical Systems
- Semi-professionals and professionals — bards — minstrelsy — segregation and discrimination — professional waiters — musical vocabularies — pitch syllables — concomitant method of learning
- Ten / ‘Progress’?
- The fading theory of evolution — culture graft — progress — evidences against progress — our gain is our loss
- A note on Bibliography
- Index of Names