Writing American indian music : historic transcriptions, notations, and arrangements /
This edition explores the history of musical contact, interaction, and exchange between American Indians and Euramericans, as documented in musical transcriptions, notations, and arrangements. The volume contributes to an understanding of American music that reflects our cultural reality, depicting...
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| Format: | Musical Score Book |
| Language: | North American Indian English |
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Middleton, Wis. :
A-R Editions for the American Musicological Society,
©2002.
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| Series: | Music of the United States of America ;
v. 11. Recent researches in American music ; v. 44. |
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| Summary: | This edition explores the history of musical contact, interaction, and exchange between American Indians and Euramericans, as documented in musical transcriptions, notations, and arrangements. The volume contributes to an understanding of American music that reflects our cultural reality, depicting reciprocal influences among Native Americans, scholars, composers, and educators, and illustrating consequences of those encounters for American musical life in general. Culled from a published record of over 8,000 songs, the edition contains 116 musical examples reproduced in facsimile. Included in the volume are the earliest attempts to represent tribal music in European notation, archetypal transcriptions in the scholarly literature of ethnomusicology, and recent contributions by contemporary scholars. Some of the notations shown here inspired composers in search of a distinctively American musical idiom to write works based on American Indian melodies. Others captured the imagination of American school children, whose concept of cultural and musical identity came to be linked with American Indians. Indigenous notations, the work of native scholars and educators, and recent compositions by native composers working in the classical vein also appear in this volume. As a compendium of historic materials, the edition illustrates the development of Euramerican attitudes and approaches to American Indian musics, the infusion of native musics into American musical culture, and native responses to and participation in the enterprise. |
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| Item Description: | Reprinted from 17th-20th century publications. Transcriptions of traditional native American music, songs about native Americans, music by native American composers. |
| Physical Description: | xxxviii, 304 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 31 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-292,) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0895794942 9780895794949 |
