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Ethnomusicology
Study of music in its cultural and social contexts. How music works within a given "culture" or society.
Comparative Musicology
Precursor of ethnomusicology. It is the field that attempted to record, notate, and classify the music of the "other" and compare it to the west.
Society for Ethnomusicology
Organization formed due to emerging scholars in the USA: Merriam, Nettl, Seeger, Hood, McAllester, 1953. Ethnomusicology used along with comparative musicology. 1960 Comparative musicology was largely history.
Fieldwork
Critical in what sets us apart from historical musicology. Fieldwork : bridge
to the cultural "other." Primary technique of gathering data.
to the cultural "other." Primary technique of gathering data.
Alan Merriam
Anthropologist. Founding father of the society of ethnomusicology, pioneer in the field. Emphasizes the anthropological perspectives and methods in studying music. Studying music as culture.
Bruno Nettl
Taught at the University of Illinois. Helped define the field and is still active in research today. Nettl's Definition(s) of Ethnomusicology: 1. ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture, 2. ethnomusicology is the study of the world's musics from a comparative and relativistic perspective (both in comparison and in its own terms), 3. ethnomusicology is study with the use of fieldwork, 4. ethnomusicology is the study of all the musical manifestations of a society.
Hornbostel and Sachs
Instrument classification system. Defining instruments based on how sound is produced.
Aerophone
Flute, organ (wind)
Membranophone
Drum (vibration of a tightly stretched membrane)
Idiophone
Cymbal, xylophone (an instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle).
Chordophone
Violin, guitar (strings)
Alexander Ellis
Was able to develop the cents system of measuring pitch, in order to better characterize the "capricious" tuning systems of other cultures. Describes the "non harmonic" scales of other regions of the world.
Guido Adler
Founder of Comparative musicology in 1885. Wrote "The Scope, Method, and Aim of Musicology." This pushed for the scientific application of musical studies.
Ethnomusicology at Home
Studying music from your own cultural background. Using ethnomusicological perspectives by trying to comprehend music through a microcosm (appraisal without judgment), looking at the familiar as if one were an outsider, seeing the world of music as a component of culture, viewing their own music from a world perspective.
Hierarchical structure of Music Schools
Performers vs. non-performers (musicologists), vocal music vs. instrumental music, gender and instrument choices, conducting "art" music vs. folk music, types of ensembles (orchestra or string quartet vs. brass ensemble), piano's repertoire and importance. Student-Teacher-Administration.