MUH 3014: African and Eastern Music
Professor Comberiati -- Required Listening
UNIT I: Introduction to Ethnomusicology, Study Methods, Meaning in Music
Readings: WM: Chap.1.
Listening: Primitive Music of the World (M1627.C65 P7 1962):
01 Murat Music
02 2 Spirit Flutes
03 4 Spirit Flutes
04-5 Malagasy Drumming
08 Pygmies of the Ituri
UNIT II: Music in Australia, Polynesia, and Indonesia and Terminology for Musical Analysis
Readings: WM: Chap. 7; MCP: 1-63.
Listening: Tribal Music of Australia (M1840.T654 1953):
01 Djedbang-Ari Movies
02 Djedbang-Ari Marching
04 Wadamiri Song
09 Cloud Chant
Murat Music of North Borneo (M1824.B6 M8 1961):
01 Kulintangen
02 Kulintangen
05 Pantun Minum ramai ramai
Maori Songs of New Zealand (M1842 .M468 1952):
06 Haka of Wairangi
Music of the Magindanao in the Philippines (M1822.M88 M4 1961):
01 Duyug Mode on Ensemble
02 Babandil
03 Dabakan with Babandil
04 Gandingan
05 Agung with Babandil
06 Kulintang
07 Sinulug Mode on Ensemble
UNIT III: The Music of Ethiopia and Northwest Africa and the Classification of Musical Instruments
Readings: MCP: 64-97; and Sachs: 454-467.
Listening: Wolof Music of Senegal and the Gambia (M1831.W5 W54 1955):
03 Samba Gilajagi
05 Tara
09 Hasida
Tuareg Music of the Southern Sahara (M1831.T82 T81 1960):
03 Ezzel n oufada love song
06 Azel oua n kel owi Imzhad
10 Ilougan
First Examination
UNIT IV: Visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection of Non-Western Musical Instruments
Reading Project on 2 articles in K. Shelemay, Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology. (6 volumes in reference section)
UNIT V: The Music of Black Africa and Analysis of Pitch and Rhythm
Readings: WM: Chap. 3.
Listening: Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria (M146.D885 1956):
01 Igbin Drums
04 Dundun Drums
Music of Zaire, vol. 1 (M1838 .Z4 J4 1973 v. 1):
01-08 Eight examples of Libinza instruments
09 Libinza song with drums
Music of Zaire, vol. 2 (M1838 .Z4 J4 1973 v. 2):
04 Libeke playing mbira
UNIT VI: Music in Japanese Culture and Influence on Western Music
Readings: WM: Chap. 8; and Malm, Six Hidden Views: 151-197.
Listening:
Traditional Folk Songs of Japan (M1812.H47 T7 1961):
01 Soran Bushi
03 Bon Festival in Hokkaido
15 Song of Sado Isle
Classical Japanese Koto Music: Rokudan
Kabuki Style Music illustrated by Benjamin Britten's Curlew River:
1. Te lucis ante terminum, 2. I am the ferryman, 3. I come from the Westland, 4. But first may I ask you what is that strange noise?, 5. Clear as a sky without a cloud, 6. Near the Black Mountains there I dwelt, 7. A thousand leagues may sunder a mother and her son, 8. Ignorant man! You refuse a passage to me?, 9. I beg your pardon, 10. Curlew River, smoothly flowing, 11. Today is an important day, 12. Look! While you were listening to my story, 13. Ferryman, tell me, when did it happen?, 14. Hoping, I wandered on, 15. He whose life was full of promise, 16. The moon has risen, 17. Go your way in peace, mother, 18. Good souls, we have shown you.
Semester Project Outline Due
UNIT VII: Music of India -- Regional Styles
Readings: WM: Chap. 6.
Listening: Music of India - Folk - Traditional & Classical (M1808.M88 1951):
01 Unnaippol raga Kamboji morning part 1
02 Unnaippol raga Kamboji morning part 2
08 Niravadhi Sugadha ceremonial music
Religious Music of India (M1808.R455 1952):
03 Yajur Veda chanting
07 Raghupati Raghava Raja Rama kirtana
Music from South India Kerala (M1808.M87 L4 1961):
01-02 Five instruments and Panchawadyam festival excerpt
05 Kathakali Kiradan the Hunter part 1
06 Kathakali Kiradan the Hunter part 2
UNIT VIII: Music of China and the Rise of the Courtly Tradition
Readings: MCP: 167-206.
Listening: The Ruse of the Empty City: Peking Opera (M1805.3.R88 1960):
09 General Ssu Ma-I and soldiers aria
14 Ma Su, Chu Ko Liang, Executioners
Eleven Centuries of Chinese Classical Music:
"What should I be listening for?" This question cannot be answered specifically, because as investigate music of new cultures, you should be listening to all stylistic factors that will help you form a critical judgment about the new work. As initial guidelines, however, you may wish to consider the following questions to ask yourself. Remember that these are works that deserve to be part of your knowledge.
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What is the meaning of the text? What language is being sung? What does the composer do to project or enhance the meaning of the text? |
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How would you characterize the texture of the music--complex? simple? melody and accompaniment? |
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What role does repetition play in the formal pattern? Does the piece adhere to a traditional formal structure? |
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Is the piece composed idiomatically for the performing forces? |
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What performing forces are present? Do these help to identify the work? |
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In instrumental music, are there distinctive elements of scoring present (many passages for solo instruments, separation of choirs of different sonority, etc.)? |
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How would you characterize the relationship between notes? Harmony? Heterophony? |
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What other techniques, or striking details
of any kind, give the piece its identity (e.g., dynamic
contrasts, rhythmic detail, etc.)? |
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