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Introduction. Fifty years ago, in September 1964, the journal of a young Society for Ethnomusicology published the ‘Symposium on Transcription and Analysis: A Hukwe Song with Musical Bow’, a text that has since become a cornerstone within the ethnomusicological corpus. 1 Drawn from a session organized by Nicholas M. England for SEM's ...
Abstract. ‘Music as culture’ examines the connections that ethnomusicologists make between music and culture. Culture, in an ethnomusicologist sense, refers to all forms of human knowledge, creativity, and values, and to their expression in various activities. Ethnomusicologists believe that humans make music as a constituent element of ...
Apr 20, 2017 · Bruno Nettl (1983: 11) defined ethnomusicology as “the science of music history.”. Mantle Hood (1971) created “hardness scales” that would allow ethnomusicologists to compare reliably and objectively music from around the world along many dimensions of musical sound. Around 1980, however, there was an “interpretive turn” in ...
Titled “From Perspective to Practice in Applied Ethnomusicology,” the panel included the following presenters and papers: Robert Garfias, “What an Ethnomusicologist Can Do in Public Sector Arts”; Daniel Sheehy, “Applied Ethnomusicology as a State of Mind”; Charlotte Heth, “Getting It Right and Passing It On: The Ethnomusicologist ...
It may seem strange that a paper which proposes to discuss and define the field of ethnomusicology should begin with a quotation concerning American archaeology, and yet the analogy between the old and the new archaeology and the old and the new comparative musicology or ethnomusicology More than this, presents such striking parallels that it ...
Abstract. ‘A bit of history’ charts the history of the study of ethnomusicology. The literate cultures of China and Greece generated philosophical treatises on music because they believed that music is an important cultural expression with significant cosmological, metaphysical, religious, social, and political implications.
sic transcription and ethnomusicology: a user study , 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Delft, The Nether-lands, 2019. the art in AMT may have to offer for (ethno)musicologists transcribing a piece of music. In the eld of MIR, recent AMT research has mostly focused on automatic transcription of piano ...
