Week of 2/2-2/4: Music and Language
Tuesday, 2 February
All read:
Feld, Steven, and Aaron A. Fox. 1994. "Music and Language." Annual Review of Anthropology 23:25-53.
Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray Jackendoff. 1977. "Toward a Formal Theory of Tonal Music." Journal of Music Theory 21/1:111-171
Meyer, Rosalee K., Caroline Palmer, and Margarita Mazo. 1998. "Affective and Coherence Responses to Russian Laments." Music Perception 16/1:135-150.
Thursday, 4 February
Divide up:
Lessons learned with Musical Grammars
Javanese gamelan
Becker, Judith, and Alton Becker. 1979. "A Grammar of the Musical Genre srepegan." Journal of Music Theory 23/1:1-44.
___. 1983. "A Reconsideration in the Form of a Dialogue." Asian Music 14/1:9-16.
Perlman, Marc. 1983. "Notes on 'A Grammar of the Musical Genre Srepegan'." Asian Music 14/1:17-29.
North Indian drumming (Artificial Intelligence project)
Kippen, James. 1987. "An Ethnomusicological Approach to the Analysis of Musical Cognition." Music Perception 5/2:173-195.
Kippen, Jim, and Bernard Bel. 1989. "Can a Computer Help Resolve the Problem of Ethnographic Description?" Anthropological Quarterly 62/3:131-144.
Semiotics
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques. 1990. Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music, translator Carolyn Abbate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
ML3797.N371 1990. Read ix-xv, 3-68 (preface + first two chapters).
Book review presentation (Josh): Nattiez 1990.
Annotation assignments: include findings, methodology, relationship to cog. ethnomusicology
1. Feld & Fox 1994; Meyer, et al. 1998
2. Becker & Becker 1979
3. Becker & Becker 1983; Perlman 1983
4. Kippen 1987; Kippen & Bel 1989
5. Nattiez 1990:3-68
6. Studies of Inuit (Eskimo) throat games
Nattiez, Jean-Jacques 1987. "Sémiologie des jeux vocaux Inuit." Semiotica 66/1-3:159-78
Bagemihl, Bruce. 1988. "The Morphology and Phonology of Katajjait (Inuit Throat Games)." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de Linguistique 33/1:1-58.