Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Global Music)

WHAT'S NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION?

* Simplified and incorporates recent additions to the Global Music Series

* New charts and diagrams delve into important musical concepts

* Updated companion website includes a new guide to online and print resources, a sample syllabi, and teaching tips

Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional material to accompany each study.

WHAT'S NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION?

* Simplified and incorporates recent additions to the Global Music Series

* New charts and diagrams delve into important musical concepts

* Updated companion website includes a new guide to online and print resources, a sample syllabi, and teaching tips

Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional material to accompany each study.

Preface

CD Track List

A Note to Readers

1. Thinking about Music

People

--Music Makers

--Listeners

Music

--In Terms of Sound

--Calling Something "Music"

--Aesthetic Values in Music

Meaning

--Music and Textual Meaning

--Music as Text

Use

Transmission of Musical Knowledge

--Oral and Aural Transmission

--Visual Transmission in the form of notation

2. Thinking about Instruments

Instruments as Objects

--Ideas about Instrument Types

--Ideas about Particular Instruments

---Associations of Sexuality and Gender

---Spiritual Associations

---Cultural Status

---Aesthetic Value

---Item of Technology

----Item of Commodity

---Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound

Instruments in Musical Practice

--Instrumental Capacity

--Ideas about Ensemble

---Heterogeneous and Homogeneous

---- Sound Ideals

---Musical Roles

---Aesthetics of Ensembles

3. Thinking about Time

Rhythm

--Free Rhythm

--Rhythm for the Text Alone

---From free rhythm to relatively more organized time

--Pulse/Beat

Organizing Time into Units

---At the lever of a Single Beat

---Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation

---Duple and Triple Meters

---Some Other Meters

---South Indian T?la

---Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation

---Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter

---North Indian T?la

---Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes

---Rhythmic Groupings

---Korean Changdan

---Polyrhythm

Speed

4. Thinking about Pitch

Pitch

--Pitch Names

---Syllables

---Numbers

---Letters

Setting the Pitch

--Who Sets the Pitch

--Pitch Placement

Pitches in Succession

--Intervals

---Naming Intervals

---Microtones

--Scale

---The Chromatic Scale

---Diatonic Scales

---The "Oriental" Scale

--Number of Pitches in an Octave

--Pitch Functions

--Melodic Mode

Simultaneous Pitches

--Naming "Vertical" Intervals

--Dissonance and Consonance

--Western Functional Harmony

--Tone Clusters

Interplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts

--Performing One Melody

---Solo and in Unison

---Interlocking Parts

---Rounds

---Heterophony

--Performing One Melody with Another Part

---Melody and Drone

---Melody and Chords

--Performing Multiple Melodies

---Polyphony

---Melody and Ostinato

5. Thinking about Structuring

Improvising and Composing

--Persons Who Compose

Putting Something Significant First

--Sonata Form

--North Indian Instrumental Form

Coming to an End

Telling the Story

--Music for the Moment

--Through-composed Music

--Contrasting Instrumentation

--Strophic Form

Responding to the Context

--Audience-Performer Interaction

--Intra-ensemble Interaction

--Music and Movement

Social Values

6. Thinking Critically about Issues

Encounters and Identities

--A Focus on Influences

--A Focus on Boundaries

---The National Community

---Regional Identity

---Gender

---Multiple Identities

Authenticity

Transcending Boundaries

--The Mass Media

--Globalization

--The Local

7. Thinking about Fieldwork

Picking a Project

Planning the Project

Doing the Project

Finishing the Project

Glossary of Musical Terms

References

Index