Research Catalog

Title

Studies in African music / co-editors of this issue, J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje ; managing editor, Roger Wright.

Publication

[Los Angeles] : Program in Ethnomusicology, Dept. of Music, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
• DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
• Wright, Roger

Description

xx, 387 p. : ill., music; 28 cm. +

Series Statement

Selected reports in ethnomusicology ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Selected reports in ethnomusicology v. 5.

Subject

• Wachsmann, Klaus, 1907-
• Music > Africa > History and criticism

Note

• "In honor and memory of Klaus Wachsmann, Mar. 8, 1907-July 17, 1984"--P. [i]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies, discographies and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Trends in African musicology / J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Jacqueline C. DjeDje -- Style and performance. The style of Mandinka music: a study in extracting theory from practice / Roderic Knight ; The use of variation in Birifor funeral music / Larry Godsey ; The interplay of melodic phrases: an analysis of Dagomba and Hausa one string fiddle music / Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje -- Multipart relationships. Multipart relationships in xylophone and tuned drum traditions in Buganda / Lois Ann Anderson ; Multipart relationships in Shona vocal music / Robert Kauffman ; Hocket concept and structure in Kasena flute ensemble music / James Koetting ; The music of the Banda-Linda horn ensembles: for and structure / Simha Arom ; Interlocking techniques in Kpelle music / Cynthia E. Schmidt -- Organology. Appropriate technology in the construction of traditional African musical instruments in Ghana / Craig Woodson ; The morphology of the Masinqo: Ethiopia's bowed spike fiddle / Cynthia Tse, Jerome Kimberlin ; Tuning of the Thum, the Luo lyre: a systematic analysis / W.A. Omondi -- Notation and transcription. Prolegomena to a study of harp and voice sounds in Uganda: a graphic system for the notation of texture / Sue Carole De Vale -- Communication: speech surrogates and music. Traditional strategies for mass communication: the centrality of Igbo music / Meki Nzewi ; The use of measured rhythm to communicate messages among Banyoro and Baganda in Uganda / Solomon Mbabi-Katana.

ISBN

0882870173

OCLC

• 11562063
• SCSB-13471779

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library