ANALYTICAL STUDIES IN WORLD MUSIC: Analytical Studies in World Music

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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.