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Theory of African music /

Title:
Theory of African music /
Author:
Kubik, Gerhard, 1934-
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
v. 1. I. Xylophone playing in southern Uganda -- II. Harp music of the Azande and related peoples in the Central African Republic -- III. A structural examination of multi-part singing in East, Central, and Southern Africa. 1. Homophonic multi-part singing in Bantu musical cultures of East and Central Africa ; 2. Nsenga/Shona harmonic patterns and the San heritage in Southern Africa -- IV. Composition techniques in Kiganda xylophone music, with an introduction into some Kiganda musical concepts. 1. The amadinda ; 2. The akadinda ; 3. Are amadinda and akadinda pieces structurally related? -- V. Concepts about movement and sound in the eastern Angolan culture area. 1. Musical enculturation ; 2. Patterns of body movement in Mbwela/Nkhangala boys' initiation ; 3. Likembe tunings and musical concepts of an adolescent Kachokwe: Kufuna Kandonga -- v. 2. VI. The cognitive study of African musical rhythm. 1. Cognitive anthropology and African music: what we can learn from each ; 2. Timing systems ; 3. Time-line patterns -- VII. African music and auditory perception. 1. Focus on cross-cultural comprehension: motor-accents, reference beat and metrical inversion ; 2. Focus on auditory streaming and the I.P. effect -- VIII. Àlọ́--Yoruba chantefables: an integrated approach towards West African music and oral literature -- IX. Genealogy of a Malaŵian musician family: Daniel J. Kachamba (1947-1987) and his associates -- X. African space/time concepts and the Tusona ideographs in Luchazi culture.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML350 .K83 2010 – Available
New England Conservatory Spaulding Desk
CD ML350 .K83 2010 – Available