The ethnomusicologist / Mantle Hood.

Author/creator Hood, Mantle
Format Book
EditionNew edition.
Publication InfoKent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©1982.
Descriptionxxviii, 400 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 3 phonodiscs (33 1/3 rpm ; 7 in.)
Subjects
Ethnomusicology.

Contents Introduction. What's in a name? ; What's in a book? ; Society and its scale of values (Two extremes: the United States and the island of Bali ; Beatle music: "Everything about it affects everything else") ; The center for area studies (Two modes of discourse ; Field and laboratory instrumentation ; The long shot) -- Musical literacy. What does the hiring? ; The long, bumpy road to academia ; Filling in the holes ; "One either has them or has them not" ; International musicianship (Learning to hear ; Learning to perform: rhythm ; Learning to perform: pitch ; Vocal practice ; Instrumental practice) ; Interdisciplinary studies (Foreign languages ; Area studies) ; A guide to reading (A perspective on early sources ; The time lag ; A critical approach) -- Transcription and notation. Music dictation: the horns of a dilemma (Passing through the horns ; The G-S line) ; The relative efficiency of notation ; The chronic problem of 1893 (The Hipkins solution ; The Seeger solution ; The Laban solution) -- Organology. Musical instruments as a unique source of information (Organography ; Techniques of performance ; Musical function ; Decoration ; Socio-cultural considerations) ; Symbolic taxonomy: orderly phyla ; Symbolic notation: the organogram (Hardness scales ; Instrument position ; Performer's position ; Instrument support ; Auxiliary symbols ; Basic organograms) -- Field methods and the human equation. Preparation and the slow beginning (Nine violations of the muses ; Slow and steady) ; The human equation (Avoiding the question) ; The intellectual iceberg (The speech mode of discourse ; The notebook and the tape recorder) ; The music mode of discourse (Musical literacy) ; The value equation -- Field methods and the technical equation. Recording (Equipment ; Single mike ; Multiple mikes ; Automatic record ; Special uses ; Supplies ; The log) ; Still photography ; The motion picture (The narrative, the documentary, the documentary-narrative ; Editing ; The super 8 ; The single-system sound camera ; The zoom lens ; The crew) -- Quest for the norms of style. The puppet play in Java and Bali ; Musical style (The consensus makers of music ; The musical consensus ; The segment and the consensus ; The untalkables ; Scientific methods) -- Scientific methods and the laboratory. Description ; Analysis (Tuning system ; Scale ; Mode ; Ensemble ; Formatives) ; Synthesis ; Historical sources ; Comparison and criticism ; The universe of music -- Communications. Speech-music modes ; Human movement ; Impact of the ethnomusicologist ; Reciprocity.
Contents Phonodisc 1, side I: band 1, five Sundanese singers ; band 2, excerpt of Matjapat ; band 3, Japanese kakko ; band 4, seven double reeds -- phonodisc 1, side II: band 1, gender wajang ; band 2, Ewe atsia ; band 3, Lobi xylophone ; band 4, Lobi xylophone with humming ; band 5, Indonesian one-man band -- Phonodisc 2, side III: band 1, multi-mike recordings from West Africa ; band 2, Indian tabla ; band 3, Japanese koto -- Phonodisc 2, side IV: Gamelan sekati -- Phonodisc 3, side V: band 1, Fanti memorial service ; band 2, analytical recording of gender panerus in context ; band 3, analytical recordings of various Javanese instruments -- Phonodisc 3, side VI: band 1, single-vs. multi-mike recordings of Javanese gamelan ; band 2, "Sendon Tlutur" played by solo rebab.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages [377]-389) and index.
LCCN 82014828
ISBN0873382803

Availability

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Music Music Stacks ML3798.H66 E8 1982 ✔ Available Place Hold