Selections on the companion website are carefully matched with extensive transcriptions and illuminating diagrams in every chapter. Opening rich cross-cultural perspectives on music, this volume addresses the practical needs of students and scholars in the contemporary world of fusions, contact, borrowing, and curiosity about music everywhere.
| Introduction : analysis, categorization, and theory of musics of the world | 3 | |
| Ch. 1 | Nava'i, a musical genre of northeastern Iran | 41 |
| Ch. 2 | How to spin a good horo : melody, mode, and musicianship in the composition of Bulgarian dance times | 58 |
| Ch. 3 | Flamenco in focus : an analysis of a performance of Soleares | 92 |
| Ch. 4 | An Afro-Cuban bata piece for Obatala, King of the White Cloth | 120 |
| Ch. 5 | Aka polyphony : music, theory, back and forth | 163 |
| Ch. 6 | Oleg Tumulilingan : layers of time and melody in Balinese music | 105 |
| Ch. 7 | Flexing the frame in Javanese gamelan music : playfulness in a performance in Ladrang Pangkur | 237 |
| Ch. 8 | "Yang's eight pieces" : composing a musical set-piece in a Chinese local opera tradition | 275 |
| Ch. 9 | Architectonic composition in south Indian classical music : the "navaragamalika varnam" | 303 |
| Ch. 10 | Mozart : Piano concerto no. 17 in G major, K. 453, movement 1 | 332 |
| Ch. 11 | Autonomy and dialogue in Elliott Carter's Enchanted preludes | 377 |
Overview
Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, Analytical Studies in World Music offers fresh perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven inspired, insightful, and in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, flamenco, modern American chamber music, and a wealth of other genres create a border-erasing compendium of ...