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Thinking Musically is the central volume in the Global Music Series. Designed for undergraduates and general readers with little or no background in music, it incorporates music from many diverse cultures--including the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Europe--and establishes the framework for exploring the practice of music around the world. It sets the stage for an array of case study volumes, each of which focuses on a single area of the world. Each case study uses the contemporary musical situation as a point of departure--covering hist... MORE

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
CD Track List	p. xvii
Thinking about Music	p. 1
People	p. 1
Music Makers	p. 1
Listeners	p. 2
Music	p. 3
In Terms of Sound	p. 3
Calling Something "Music"	p. 3
Musical Values	p. 6
Meaning	p. 10
Music and Te... MORExtual Meaning	p. 10
Music as Text	p. 14
Use	p. 15
Transmission	p. 16
Oral and Aural Transmision	p. 17
Written Transmission	p. 19
Thinking about Instruments	p. 27
Instruments as Objects	p. 28
Ideas about Types of Instruments	p. 28
Ideas about Particular Instruments	p. 38
Spiritual Associations	p. 38
Associations of Gender and Sexuality	p. 39
Cultural Status	p. 40
Aesthetic Value	p. 41
Item of Technology	p. 42
Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound	p. 43
Instruments in Music	p. 46
Instrumental Capacity	p. 46
Ideas about Ensemble	p. 49
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Sound Ideals	p. 49
Musical Roles	p. 53
Thinking about Time	p. 56
Rhythm	p. 57
Pulse	p. 57
Irregular Durations	p. 58
Rhythm for the Text Alone	p. 59
Organizing Time into Units	p. 59
Duple and Triple Meters	p. 59
Simple and Compound Meters	p. 62
Additive Meters	p. 62
South Indian Tala	p. 64
Southeast Asian Colotomic Structure	p. 66
North Indian Tala	p. 68
Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes	p. 69
Korean Changdan	p. 71
African Polyrhythm	p. 73
Music in the African Diaspora	p. 75
Speed	p. 76
Thinking about Pitch	p. 81
Pitch	p. 81
Pitch Names	p. 82
Syllables	p. 82
Numbers	p. 83
Letters	p. 83
Setting the Pitch	p. 83
Who Sets the Pitch	p. 83
Pitch Placement	p. 85
Thinking Horizontally	p. 87
Intervals	p. 87
Naming Intervals	p. 88
Microtones	p. 90
Scales	p. 91
The Chromatic Scale	p. 91
Diatonic Scales	p. 93
The "Oriental" Scale	p. 94
Number of Pitches in an Octave	p. 94
Pitch Functions	p. 95
Mode	p. 96
Thinking Vertically	p. 98
Tone Clusters	p. 98
Naming Vertical Intervals	p. 99
Dissonance and Consonance	p. 99
Functional Harmony	p. 100
Thinking Horizontally and Vertically	p. 103
Performing One Melody	p. 103
Solo and in Unison	p. 103
Interlocking Parts	p. 104
Rounds	p. 104
Heterophony	p. 105
Performing One Melody with Another Part	p. 106
Melody and Drone	p. 106
Homophony	p. 106
Performing Multiple Melodies	p. 106
Polyphony	p. 106
Melody and Ostinato	p. 107
Thinking about Structure	p. 108
Improvising and Composing	p. 108
Putting Something Significant First	p. 111
North Indian Instrumental Form	p. 111
Sonata Form	p. 112
Telling the Story	p. 113
Music for the Moment	p. 113
Part-Counterpart	p. 114
Contrasting Instrumentation	p. 114
Through-composed Music	p. 115
Strophic Form	p. 116
Responding to the Context	p. 118
Expectation for Audience-Performer Interaction	p. 118
The Need for Intra-ensemble Interaction	p. 119
The Ritual Context	p. 120
A Series of Changdan	p. 120
Call and Response	p. 122
Music and Movement	p. 122
Coming to the end	p. 124
Aesthetic choice and intellectual play	p. 125
Contrasting Rhythmic Modes	p. 125
Contrasting Melodic Modes	p. 126
Social Values	p. 126
Thinking about Issues	p. 128
Music and Culture Contact	p. 130
A Focus on Influences	p. 130
A Focus on Boundaries	p. 131
Gender	p. 131
The National Community	p. 133
Other Groups	p. 138
Authenticity	p. 140
Transcending Boundaries	p. 145
The Mass Media	p. 147
Transnationalization	p. 148
The Local	p. 149
Thinking about Fieldwork	p. 152
Picking a Project	p. 153
Planning the Project	p. 154
Doing the Project	p. 155
Finishing the Project	p. 157
Glossary of Musical Terms	p. 158
References	p. 166
Resources	p. 170
Index	p. 173
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Bonnie C. Wade is Professor of Music and the Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Chair in Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as President of the Society of Ethnomusicology.

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