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Jul 16, 2023 · Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it. It encompasses distinct theoretical and methodical approaches that emphasize cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts of musical behavior, in addition to the sound component.
Based in principles of social responsibility, applied ethnomusicology puts ethnomusicological knowledge to practical use through a music-centered intervention into a particular community, whose purpose is to benefit that community.
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The perspective of this article is centred on the implications of the idea of notation’s capacity to act deconstructively for transcription practices in ethnomusicology.
transcription—will be briefly covered. Students will be expected to: --listen critically. --read all weekly assigned readings during the week they are assigned. --participate actively in class discussion. --write critical reviews of selected readings and present them orally in class. --deliver oral responses to selected readings in class.
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Dec 20, 2019 · Finally, there’s musical analysis and transcription. Musical analysis entails a detailed description of the sounds of music, and is a method used by both ethnomusicologists and historical musicologists. Transcription is the conversion of musical sounds into written notation.
Oct 23, 2021 · 2.1 Music transcription in ethnomusicology. If they transcribe music at all, ethnomusicologists usually aim to document a specific performance on the basis of a recording (so-called ‘descriptive music-writing’), rather than to provide a model for performance (‘prescriptive music-writing’; Seeger, 1958 ).
