Experiencing Latin American music

"In Exploring Latin American music, Carol A. Hess offers a completely new approach to the human experience as a point of departure for musical and cross-cultural understanding. Students explore topics such as music and identity, music and the body, music and religion, and other broad themes. Gu...

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Autor principal: Hess, Carol A. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2018]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Experiencing Latin American Music; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Audio Selections; Acknowledgments; Note on the Text; 1 Experiencing Latin American Music: An Introduction; Music in Latin America: A General View; Latin America in the World; Music in Latin American Culture: Self and Other; Talking about Music; Popular Music; Classical Music; Traditional Music; What's in a Name?; Searching for Meaning: Who Does What; Experiencing Latin American Music: How to Use This Book; Suggestions for Success: The Listening Journal; Study Guide; Key Terms; For Further Study.
  • 2 Experiencing Latin American Film MusicComo Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate); Film Music: Basic Principles; Timbre; Performing Forces; Melody; Pitch; Musical Form; Themes and Motives: How Film Composers Invite Us to Remember; Other Strategies in Film Music; Musical Time; Interpretation and Music; La Historia Oficial (The Official Story); Film Music with Words; Tempo; Tonal Center; More Diegetic Music in La Historia Oficial; Texture; Following Ana's Theme; Foreshadowing; Sara's Music and Bandoneón Timbre; Montage and Cadence; Conclusions; Study Guide; Key Terms.
  • For Further StudyReading for Pleasure; 3 Experiencing Musical Concepts: Focus on Latin America; What's Playing? Timbre and Performing Forces; Hearing Timbre; Organology; Instruments and Meaning; Technique; Blended versus Differentiated Sounds; Ensemble Relations; Gender; Identity; Production; Volume; Pitch; More on Pitch; Range; Making a Melody; Intervals; Patterns of Pitches; Scale; Beyond Major and Minor; Texture; Finding the Center; Musical Time; Beat, Rhythm, Meter; Musical Time: More Possibilities; Africa, Musical Time, and Latin America; Additive Rhythm; Words and Music.
  • Musical Form and Latin American MusicCall-and-Response Form; Strophic Form; Verse-and-Refrain Form; ABA Form and Beyond; Conclusions; Study Guide; Key Terms; For Further Study; 4 Experiencing Latin American Religious Music; Religion in Latin America: Indigenous Cosmologies; Religion in Latin America: Catholicism; Religion in Latin America: The African Legacy; Religion in Latin America: Other Groups; Religious Ritual; Santería, Slavery, and Syncretism in Cuba; The Conquest Begins; African Slaves and Religious Syncretism in Cuba; The Music of Santería; Santería over Time.
  • Plainchant and Religious Conversion in MexicoThe Conquest in Mexico; Two Musician-Friars in Colonial Mexico; Plainchant; Plainchant over Time; Music and Animal Veneration in Peru; The Conquest in Peru; Q'eros Musical Expression and Spiritual Values; The Q'eros over Time; Mass in the City of Angels; Puebla: A Social Experiment; Catholic Music in Puebla: The Mass; The Mass over Time; Music and Healing Rituals: The Selk'nam Shamans of Tierra del Fuego; The Extinction of a People; Selk'nam Cosmology: Music and Illness; Music and Healing over Time.