Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Rigveda, Area Studies, Major Minor Records
20 Dec 2016
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Ethnomusicology: the study of understanding and contextualizing a practice of music making in a non-western art music culture. Scene setting where, what he"s doing, where he"s going to (calcutta on the bus) Instruments" role and audience reaction as a culture player. Physical description of dance (as a realization of rhythm) Understanding the dance as allegory (that would be known to the culture. ) Making connections between musical cultures (rhythms, musical forces and their roles, etc. ) Historical timeline of musical culture in a geographical area (and the influence of western culture) Cultural practices from ancient times surrounding poetry (and art and performance culture more generally. ) Ethnomusicology is the study of music in its cultural context. Ethnomusicologists approach music as a social process in order to understand not only what music is but why it is: what music means to its practitioners and audiences, and how those meanings are conveyed.
