of Non-Western Music
Michael Tenzer, "A Cross-Cultural Topology of Musical Time." In Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer and John Roeder, OxfordUniversity Press, 2011, 415–439.
Alexander Rehding, “Fine-Tuning a Global History of Music Theory: Divergences, Zhu Zaiyu, and Music-Theoretical Instruments.” also here, Music Theory Spectrum 44/2 (2022): 260-275.
Directed listening: please listen to these tracks and jot down a few notes before reading the listening guides for each.
Javanese Gamelan: Sri Duhita
Hindustani Alap: Yaman
Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal.
Analytical Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer (Oxford, 2019)
Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm: Asian, African, and Euro- American Perspectives, edited by Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty (Oxford, 2006).
Trends in World Music Analysis, edited by Lawrence Beaumont Shuster, Somangshu Mukherji, Noé Dinnerstein (London: Routledge, 2022).
Shumays Abu, "Maqam Analysis: A Primer”, Music Theory Spectrum 35/2 (2013): 235–55.
Jose Luis Martinez, "Semiotics and the Art Music of India", Music Theory Online 6/1 (2000).
Gerd Grupe, "Notating African Music: Issues and Concepts", The World of Music, 47/2, Notation, Transcription, Visual Representation (2005): 87-103.
Willie Anku, "Circles and Time:) A Theory of Structural Organization of Rhythm in African Music", Music Theory Online, 6/1 (2000).
Kofi Agawu, "Embracing the Non-West", Intégral, Vol. 14/15 (2000/2001): 63-66.
Veit Erlmann, "Resisting Sameness: À propos Kofi Agawu's Representing African Music", Music Theory Spectrum, 26/2 (2004): 291-304.
Kofi Agawu, "Structural Analysis or Cultural Analysis? Competing Perspectives on the “Standard Pattern” of West African Rhythm", Journal of the American Musicological Society, 59/1 (2006): 1–46.