YC230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Irish Dance, Ethnomusicology, Corrido
5 Aug 2017
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That process is generally called improvising ; ethnomusicologists understand it also as composing : there are two misconceptions about improvisation that we in ethnomusicology have to counter regularly. One is that improvisation is inevitably completely free, implying that music being newly created during performance is not based on anything pre-existing. First is the idea that the timing of the creative activity is crucial that composing necessarily precedes performing. This interpretation does not take us far when we consider that much music is created in the world, but relatively few people are interested in notating it. This idea about a piece is viable for a good deal of music, particularly if the modi er. Relatively is kept in mind: pieces in the european classical tradition, songs in the. South indian classical tradition, irish dance tunes, mexican american corridos, and many other repertoires are transmitted in a relatively intact form.
