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Writing American Indian music : historic transcriptions, notations, and arrangements / edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music of the United States of America ; 11.
- Recent researches in American music ; 44.
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in American music ; 44
- Music of the United States of America ; v.11
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Music.
- Indians of North America.
- Musical notation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 304 pages, 10 pages of plates) : portraits, facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2019.
- 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 eight thousand 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." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Reading American Indian music as social history
- Transcriptions, notations, and arrangements : music examples in facsimile
- Native notations and transcriptions
- Popular arrangements
- Composer arrangements.
- Notes:
- Due to copyright restrictions, some images have been excluded from the electronic version. Please refer to the print version for the frontispiece, plates 1-3, and the facsimiles for 65.Song of the Wolf and the Wolverine, 69.Kachina Dance Song, 76.Osage Song Record Stick and Ojibwa Birchbark Scroll, 82.Song of the Talking God, 104.The Elf's Song, 106.Creek-Seminole Stomp Dance Song, and 116.Mtukwekok Naxkomao (The Singing Woods).
- Includes preface, historical and critical notes in English.
- Includes index (pages 293-304).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-292).
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed October 29, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1125961545
- Publisher Number:
- A044 A-R Editions, Inc.
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