ANALYTICAL STUDIES IN WORLD MUSIC: Analytical Studies in World Music

by Tenzer

Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ingenious music analyses.

Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere.

Genres: Music

434 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The only problem with this book is that it took so long for it to appear and that there's only one of them. Someday, analytical work related to non-Western music won't seem like such a novelty (indeed, there's a journal slated to appear soon that will be dedicated to the topic, and contributors to this book are on the editorial board). Some essays are more engaging than others, but as a whole this book represents an important disciplinary milestone.