The wellsprings of music.
Collection
Titre
The wellsprings of music.
Auteur
Type de document
Ouvrage
Date de parution
1962
Origine géographique
International
Langue
fr
Anglais
Contenu
fr
Reprint of the 1962 ed. published by M. Nijhoff, The Hague
Editor's preface (Jaap Kunst, Irene Sachs)
Chapter one. Thoughts and methods
I. Preliminaries
II. The advent of the ethnomusicologist
Theology and humanism as fundaments of earlier education - early music histories : Martini Hawkins, Burney, Laborde, Forkel, Krause, Fétis, Hullah, Ambros - early non-historical sources : Rousseau and the romantics, Villotteau, Jones, doctoral theses - beginnings of modern method with Ellis, Edison and Fewkes-Gilman-Stumpf - phonographic archives - change of name from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology.
III. The ethnomusicologist's workshop
Field work - phonograph, gramophone, tape - tone measurements - acoustical devices forks, Tonmesser, tonometer, monochord - visual devices : oscilloscope, photophonography, stoboscope, electronic counter - editing - transcribing - logarithms and cents - savarts - Reiner's music rule - notation.
IV. The question of origin
Theories - tone languages - mouth music - drum languages etc. - absence of singing - prehistory - radio carbon method of dating - fluorine method - stone and metal ages - anthropology - culture changes - the "savages" - primitive and non-literate man - scriptless society and folk music - monogenism and polygenism - Kulturkreislehre - "races".
Chapter two. Early music
V. The oldest music : tumbling strains
Major and minor - tumbling strains or stair melodies - high and low - domestication - triadic and tartaric octaves.
VI. The oldest music : one-step melodies
Terminology - sharping the pitch - affixes and infixes - tatrachords - bare fifths and sixths - pathogenic and logogenic - meaningless syllables - burdens - glossolalia - repetitive style - flexa - ontological remarks - imitation and dramatization - animal dirges or epikkedia.
VII. Conservatism and magic
Paleolithic survivals - the fight of music and poetry - strict tradition - magic - charms against sickness, death and dearth - mana - unnatural singing - kazoos.
VIII. Vocal mannerisms
Von Hornbostel's and Merriam's descriptions - European, Asiatic, Australian, Polynesian, Melanesian, African styles - quilisma, pressus, mlica - tessitura - proposed terminology - tempo and intensity - sense and value - aesthetical aspects.
IX. Instruments
Literature - extensions - other rudiments - male and female - cosmology - connotations of the flute - of stinged instruments and jaw's harp - conflicting connotations - bull roarer - gourd rattle - on the way to melody - finger holes - foot and inches - Blasquintentheorie - tuning of strings - isotonic - tuning of xylophones - East African and Indonesian parallels - chimes - the lithophones of the Musée de l'Homme - panoramic view - Europe and Africa - early instrumental music - zanza.
X. Rhythm and form
General notions - rhythmic patterns - quintary rhythm - downbeat and upbeat - metric alteration - meter and time - additive meters - "fascinating rhythm" - art and folk music - cycles - strictness and freedom - overall patterns - isorhythm - panoramic view - form - repetition - stimulus and narcotic medieval parallels : lai, estampie, lied, rondeau - antiphony and response - variation - zanza cylclic forms.
Chapter three. On the way
Growth, personality, art
Culture changes - musical criticism - musical contests - individualism and art - copyright.
Chapter four. The fate of secondal and tertian 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.
Chapter five. The fate of quartal and quintal patterns
Disjunction and conjunction - quartile chains - chains of fifths - hybrids - modulation - culture chance once more.
Chapter six. Centric melodies
Gregorian tenor melodies - the concept of mesè
Chapter seven. Polyphony
Chapter eight. Cross- or polyrhythm
Chapter nine. Professional music and musical systems
Chapter ten. "Progress" ?
A note on Bibliography
Index of names
Editor's preface (Jaap Kunst, Irene Sachs)
Chapter one. Thoughts and methods
I. Preliminaries
II. The advent of the ethnomusicologist
Theology and humanism as fundaments of earlier education - early music histories : Martini Hawkins, Burney, Laborde, Forkel, Krause, Fétis, Hullah, Ambros - early non-historical sources : Rousseau and the romantics, Villotteau, Jones, doctoral theses - beginnings of modern method with Ellis, Edison and Fewkes-Gilman-Stumpf - phonographic archives - change of name from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology.
III. The ethnomusicologist's workshop
Field work - phonograph, gramophone, tape - tone measurements - acoustical devices forks, Tonmesser, tonometer, monochord - visual devices : oscilloscope, photophonography, stoboscope, electronic counter - editing - transcribing - logarithms and cents - savarts - Reiner's music rule - notation.
IV. The question of origin
Theories - tone languages - mouth music - drum languages etc. - absence of singing - prehistory - radio carbon method of dating - fluorine method - stone and metal ages - anthropology - culture changes - the "savages" - primitive and non-literate man - scriptless society and folk music - monogenism and polygenism - Kulturkreislehre - "races".
Chapter two. Early music
V. The oldest music : tumbling strains
Major and minor - tumbling strains or stair melodies - high and low - domestication - triadic and tartaric octaves.
VI. The oldest music : one-step melodies
Terminology - sharping the pitch - affixes and infixes - tatrachords - bare fifths and sixths - pathogenic and logogenic - meaningless syllables - burdens - glossolalia - repetitive style - flexa - ontological remarks - imitation and dramatization - animal dirges or epikkedia.
VII. Conservatism and magic
Paleolithic survivals - the fight of music and poetry - strict tradition - magic - charms against sickness, death and dearth - mana - unnatural singing - kazoos.
VIII. Vocal mannerisms
Von Hornbostel's and Merriam's descriptions - European, Asiatic, Australian, Polynesian, Melanesian, African styles - quilisma, pressus, mlica - tessitura - proposed terminology - tempo and intensity - sense and value - aesthetical aspects.
IX. Instruments
Literature - extensions - other rudiments - male and female - cosmology - connotations of the flute - of stinged instruments and jaw's harp - conflicting connotations - bull roarer - gourd rattle - on the way to melody - finger holes - foot and inches - Blasquintentheorie - tuning of strings - isotonic - tuning of xylophones - East African and Indonesian parallels - chimes - the lithophones of the Musée de l'Homme - panoramic view - Europe and Africa - early instrumental music - zanza.
X. Rhythm and form
General notions - rhythmic patterns - quintary rhythm - downbeat and upbeat - metric alteration - meter and time - additive meters - "fascinating rhythm" - art and folk music - cycles - strictness and freedom - overall patterns - isorhythm - panoramic view - form - repetition - stimulus and narcotic medieval parallels : lai, estampie, lied, rondeau - antiphony and response - variation - zanza cylclic forms.
Chapter three. On the way
Growth, personality, art
Culture changes - musical criticism - musical contests - individualism and art - copyright.
Chapter four. The fate of secondal and tertian 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.
Chapter five. The fate of quartal and quintal patterns
Disjunction and conjunction - quartile chains - chains of fifths - hybrids - modulation - culture chance once more.
Chapter six. Centric melodies
Gregorian tenor melodies - the concept of mesè
Chapter seven. Polyphony
Chapter eight. Cross- or polyrhythm
Chapter nine. Professional music and musical systems
Chapter ten. "Progress" ?
A note on Bibliography
Index of names
Éditeur
Da Capo Press
Collection
fr
Dépôt Pierre Bois
Format
fr
14x21,5 cm
Nbre de pages
228
ISBN
fr
0-306-80073-X
Mots-clés
Couleur
fr
Noir et Blanc