Music 224 Week 8
Intercultural Music and Ensembles

 

Required Reading and listening

 

Bhagwati, Sandeep. “Glossaire Raisonné/reasoned Glossary." In Circuit 28/1 (2018): 15-22.

 

Langenkamp, Harm. "Close Encounters of Another Kind: Strategies of Intercultural Composition 1960s–2000s." Dutch Journal of Music Theory16/3 (2011): 180–201.

 

Wood, Abigail. "From Klezmer to Dabkah in Haifa and Weimar: Revisiting Disrupted Histories in the Key of D." The World of Music 7/1-2 (2018): 61–79.

 

Heldt, Katja. "Transcultural Music-Making in Contemporary Music Ensembles: Five Approaches in Germany, the Netherlands, Uzbekistan and Turkey." Circuit 28/1 (2018): 45–57.

 

Program notes. Nomaden (2015–16) (Manuscript) for Cello and Large Intercultural Ensemble. Atlas Ensemble, Joël Bons, Ed Spanjaard conductor, BIS 2073 (2018)

 

Analysis No. 4

Kevin Volans, String Quartet No. 2, Hunting: Gathering, I, reh A-F (1987) as pdf and Word doc, score of Hunting, Gathering I, A-F, associated description of Volans' style from Christine Lucia, “The Landscape Within: Kevin Volans and the String Quartet,” South African Music Studies 29 (2009), 6–12. due March 22

 

Intercultural Music Playlist

 

 

Scores

Tolga Yayalar, Di Luce i Ombra for chamber ensemble (2005)

 

Tolga Yayalar, Lacrymae (after Dowland) for Kemençe & Microtonal Guitar (2013)

 

Additional Resources

Asian Art Ensemble

 

Atlas Ensemble

 

Caravan Ensemble on YouTube

 

Hezarfen Ensemble

 

Omnibus Ensemble

 

Omnibus Ensemble on Soundcloud

 

Omnibus Ensemble on youTube

 

Windstreken Ensemble

 

Windstreken on YouTube

 

Additional Readings

Bauer, Amy and Márton Kerékfy. "Introduction." In György Ligeti’s Cultural Identities, edited by Márton Kerékfy Amy Bauer (Oxon: Routledge, 2017), 1–11.

 

Langenkamp, Harm. "Contested Imaginaries of Collective Harmony: The Poetics and Politics of ‘Silk Road’ Nostalgia in China and the West." In China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception Edited by Yang Hon-Lun and Michael Saffle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), 243-264.

 

Heile, Björn. “Erik Bergman, Cosmopolitanism and the Transformation of Musical Geography.” In Transformations of Musical Modernism, edited by Julian Johnson and Erling E. Guldbrandsen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 74–96.

 

Irlandi, Luigi Antonio. “Non-Western Musical Instruments and Contemporary Composition.” (2020).

 

Östersjö, Stefan. "Musical and Musicianly Listening in Intercultural Practice." Circuit 28/1 (2018): 35–44.

 

Global Musical Modernism at Humanities Commons.