Week 6

Indian Classical Music and the West, African Music

 

Tuesday: Wajahat Khan, Param Vir, Michael Harrison and West African drum traditions

 

Reading for Tuesday:

 

David Locke, "Africa: Ewe, Mande, Dagbamba, Shona," Chapter 3 of Worlds of Music, 3rd shorter edition, ed. Jeff Titon (Schirmer, 2008)

 

Second analysis assignment, due May 15:

 

Assignment in Word

Assignment in pdf

Score and raga

 

Reading for Thursday:

 

Gopinath, Sumanth, '"A Composer Looks East": Steve Reich and discourse on non–western music', Glendora Review, African Quarterly on the Arts, 3/3–4 (2004): 134–45.

 

Martin Scherzinger, "'Art' music in a cross-cultural context: the case of Africa," in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2004), 584–613.

 

Steve Reich, "Gahu–A Dance of the Ewe Tribe in Ghana" (1971), "Drumming" (1971), "Clapping Music" (1972) and "Postscript to a Brief Study of Balinese and African Music" (1973) from Writings on Music 1965–2000 (Oxford University Press, 2002), 55–71.

 

John O. Robison, "Akin Euba, Chaka, and Intercultural Opera in Africa," Música. Arte. Diálogo. Civilización (Center for Intercultural Music Arts, Portugal, 2008), 125–42.

 

Quiz 2 on African music (closes May 22, 11:45 pm)

 

Reading for next Tuesday:

 

Martin Scherzinger, liner notes for African Math

 

Playlist 5

 

John Mayer, Six Ragamalas for solo cello and tanpura, V (1983)
Michael Harrison, Raga Prelude I (Yaman) for just-tuned piano and cello (2012)

Kwame Ansah-Brew, Agbekor

(see playlist page for full listing)


Extras:

 

Powerpoint on Carnatic Music

Powerpoint on Hindustani 1

Hindustani 2

 

Canteloupe bio on Michael Harrison

 

Agbekor patterns

 

Keith Potter's analysis of Reich's Drumming, in Four Musical Minimalists (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2000), 212–25.

 

Martin Scherzinger, "Fractal Harmonies of Southern Africa," Analytical Approaches to World Music3/1 (2013)

 

Martin Scherzinger, Towards a supplementary approach to the study of African Music within modernity

 

Rainer Polak, "Rhythmic Feel as Meter: Non-Isochronous Beat Subdivision in Jembe Music from Mali," Music Theory Online 16/4 (Dec. 2010)

 

David Locke, "Yewevu in the Metric Matrix," Music Theory Online 16/4 (Dec. 2010) and at Tufts

 

David Locke, "Call and Response in Ewe Agbadza Songs: One Element in a Network of Musical Factors," Analytical Approaches to World Music 3/1 (2013)

 

UCI access:

 

Bernard Hughes, "The Music of Param Vir," Tempo 58/228 (2004), 2–13.

 

Martin Scherzinger, "Curious Intersections, Uncommon Magic: Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain", Current Musicology (2005), 20744