Analytical Studies in World Music: Analytical Studies in World Music

Michael Tenzer is a professor of music at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Balinese Music (1991, 2nd edition 1998) and Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth Century Balinese Music (2000), which received the 34th ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Society for Ethnomusicology's Merriam Prize. He is also an internationally acclaimed composer in a diversity of genres.

• List of Figures Contributors INTRODUCTION: Analysis, Categorization, and Theory of Musics of the World Michael Tenzer: PART I, SECTIONAL PERIODICITIES: POETRY, SONG, RITUAL 1: Stephen Blum: Nava'i, A Musical Genre of Northeastern Iran 2: Donna A. Buchanan and Stuart Folse: How to Spin a Good Horo: Melody, Mode, and Musicianship in the Composition of Bulgarian Dance Tunes 3: Peter Manuel: Flamenco in Focus: An Analysis of a Performance of Soleares 4: Robin Moore and Elizabeth Sayre: An Afro-Cuban Batá Piece for Obatalá, King of the White Cloth PART II, ISOPERIODICITY: FROM STRICT TO DISCURSIVE, WITH VARIATIONS 5: Susanne Fürniss: Aka Polyphony: Music, Theory, Back and Forth 6: Michael Tenzer: Oleg Tumulilingan : Layers of Time and Melody in Balinese Music 7: R. Anderson Sutton and Roger R. Vetter: Flexing the Frame in Javanese Gamelan Music: Playfulness in a Performance of Ladrang Pangkur PART III, LINEAR COMPOSITION IN PERIODIC CONTEXTS 8: Jonathan P.J. Stock: "Yang's Eight Pieces": Composing a Musical Set-Piece in a Chinese Local Opera Tradition 9: Robert Morris: Architectonic Composition in South Indian Classical Music: The "Navaragamalika Varnam" 10: William Benjamin: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major , K. 453, Movement I 11: John Roeder: Autonomy and Dialogue in Elliott Carter's Enchanted Preludes Contents of the Compact Disk Index

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