Thinking Musically

Foreword:
Preface:
CD Track List:
A Note to Readers:
1. Thinking about Music
People
-Music Makers
-Listeners
Music
-In Terms of Sound
-Calling Something "Music"
-Aesthetic Values in Music
Meaning
-Music and Textual Meaning
-Music as Text
Use
Transmission of Musical Knowledge
-Oral and Aural Transmission
-Visual Transmission in the form of notation
2. Thinking about Instruments
Instruments as Objects
-Ideas about Instrument Types
-Ideas about Particular Instruments
--Associations of Sexuality and Gender
--Spiritual Associations
--Cultural Status
--Aesthetic Value
--Item of Technology
--Item of Commodity
--Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound
Instruments in Musical Practice
-Instrumental Capacity
-Ideas about Ensemble
--Heterogeneous and Homogeneous
-- Sound Ideals
--Musical Roles
--Aesthetics of Ensembles
3. Thinking about Time
Rhythm
-Free Rhythm
-Rhythm for the Text Alone
--From free rhythm to relatively more organized time
-Pulse/Beat
Organizing Time into Units
--At the lever of a Single Beat
--Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation
--Duple and Triple Meters
--Some Other Meters
--South Indian T?la
--Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation
--Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter
--North Indian T?la
--Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes
--Rhythmic Groupings
--Korean Changdan
--Polyrhythm
Speed
4. Thinking about Pitch
Pitch
-Pitch Names
--Syllables
--Numbers
--Letters
Setting the Pitch
-Who Sets the Pitch
-Pitch Placement
Pitches in Succession
-Intervals
--Naming Intervals
--Microtones
-Scale
--The Chromatic Scale
--Diatonic Scales
--The "Oriental" Scale
-Number of Pitches in an Octave
-Pitch Functions
-Melodic Mode
Simultaneous Pitches
-Naming "Vertical" Intervals
-Dissonance and Consonance
-Western Functional Harmony
-Tone Clusters
Interplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts
-Performing One Melody
--Solo and in Unison
--Interlocking Parts
--Rounds
--Heterophony
-Performing One Melody with Another Part
--Melody and Drone
--Melody and Chords
-Performing Multiple Melodies
--Polyphony
--Melody and Ostinato
5. Thinking about Structuring
Improvising and Composing
-Persons Who Compose
Putting Something Significant First
-Sonata Form
-North Indian Instrumental Form
Coming to an End
Telling the Story
-Music for the Moment
-Through-composed Music
-Contrasting Instrumentation
-Strophic Form
Responding to the Context
-Audience-Performer Interaction
-Intra-ensemble Interaction
-Music and Movement
Social Values
6. Thinking Critically about Issues
Encounters and Identities
-A Focus on Influences
-A Focus on Boundaries
--The National Community
--Regional Identity
--Gender
--Multiple Identities
Authenticity
Transcending Boundaries
-The Mass Media
-Globalization
-The Local
7. Thinking about Fieldwork
Picking a Project
Planning the Project
Doing the Project
Finishing the Project
Glossary of Musical Terms:
References:
Index: