MUET 3030: Wrapping Things Up - Major Themes

Globalization

Musical Features/Themes:

Tourism - Gamelan as Economy

Gong Kebyar (highly performative and "showy")

Javanese vs. Balinese gamelan - more performative, showier, quicker

Cyclical (time, music, spirituality)

Colotomy

Forging of instruments (connecting to spiritual and living world)

Longevity - affects tuning of bronze

Gamelans have unique tuning

Pelog (7), Slendro (5) Scales

Inner, Middle, and Outer temple

Ensemble leadership: Ugal vs. Kendhang drummer

Other musicians following: referring to leader for changes in music

Loud vs. soft style (Javanese)

Shimmering Timbre

Central to everyday life

Connection to natural world

Impact of colonization on peformance spaces (courts=tourist) and patronage

Social

Identity

Musical Features/Themes:

African hemiola

Kora

Call-and-response

Agbekor drums function as family roles

Jali/Jaliya (oral historian)

Patronage

Spirituality (mbira/Bira ceremonies)

Participatry

Enculturation

Music functioning as central to daily life

Lineage traditions

Worldbeat music (combination of pan-African musical features with European musical elements)

World Music (traditional music of "other" countries)

Environmental Determiniam

Musical Features/Themes:

Hocketing

Sonic Regionalism

Dry/Wet Season

Mountains/Topography (environmental determinism)

Dualism (dry/wet season, gender roles, agricultural)

Gender roles connected to music (voice vs. instruments)

weeping aesthetic (musical feature, not just "happy vs. sad")

Participatory

Density of sound

Quantity over quality

Globalization (purpose of performances, presentation, composed)

Enculturation

Jula-jula panpies

pikillu/pinkuillo

Charango

Canchis Sipas

Pitu

Tinya (environmental determinism)

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Other Cultures?

Modernization

Musical Features/Themes:

Cyclical - binary

Sprouting

Palimsest

Pallavi / Anupallavi / Charanam (Kriti structure)

Sruti ("ohm, fundamental, ontological)

Cosmopolitanism

Polysemy

Melisma (multiple notes on one syllable) - Gamaka (ornamentations central to a raga structure

Raga

Tala

Guru-Sishya Parampara

New formal schools/institutions

#MeToo Movement

Veena

Vocalist-oriented tradition

Globalization

Patronage

Economic Nationalism

Duality/

Multiplicity

Musical Features/Themes:

Jiangnan Sizhu

Flutes (Dizi) - buzzing timbre

Pipa

Erhu

Pre-composed repertoire

Heterophonic texture

Amateur tea shop "jam bands" vs. formal performance

Civil vs. Miltary style (romantic and natural "wen", "wu")

Bardic styles (Suzhou tanci)

Abing

Conservatories (Abing's role, Western conservatory system impact)

Impact of (ethno)musicologists on a tradition

Chinese Opera (Peking) - narrative tradition) - role of (minimal) staging and costuming/makeup

Royal Patronage (Historical Territories)

Role of Government

Nationalism

Simple percussion - melodic focus

Improvisation and variation

Sonic Regionalism

Musical Features/Themes:

U.S-Mexican Border musics

corrido norteno

bolero

guitarron

machismo - masculinity/pridefulness

el vaquero

Pastoral themes/pastoralism

Mexican Golden Age Film (mexicanidad, machismo)

mariachi

norteno

Tejano

cumbia

narco(corridos)

banda

dance as central

(Danzon) esp. in Mexico

Jalisco - mythological state of mariachi's origin

Nationalism

Impact of Mexican Revolution (nationalist/war stories themes)

Urban (with trumpets, etc.) vs. Rural Mariachi

impact of Colonialization on instrumentation

Immigration

Borders/Borderlands

Trans-border musical influence (polka of German/Czeck, etc)

Bandoneon^

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My Music Cultures?

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