Thinking Musically: Expressing Music, Experiencing Culture

Foreword
Preface
CD Track List
A Note to Readers
1. Thinking about Music
People
--Music Makers
--Listeners
Music
--In Terms of Sound
--Calling Something \"Music\"
--Aesthetic Values in Music
Meaning
--Music and Textual Meaning
--Music as Text
Use
Transmission of Musical Knowledge
--Oral and Aural Transmission
--Visual Transmission in the form of notation
2. Thinking about Instruments
Instruments as Objects
--Ideas about Instrument Types
--Ideas about Particular Instruments
---Associations of Sexuality and Gender
---Spiritual Associations
---Cultural Status
---Aesthetic Value
---Item of Technology
----Item of Commodity
---Timbre and Aesthetics of Sound
Instruments in Musical Practice
--Instrumental Capacity
--Ideas about Ensemble
---Heterogeneous and Homogeneous
---- Sound Ideals
---Musical Roles
---Aesthetics of Ensembles
3. Thinking about Time
Rhythm
--Free Rhythm
--Rhythm for the Text Alone
---From free rhythm to relatively more organized time
--Pulse/Beat
Organizing Time into Units
---At the lever of a Single Beat
---Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation
---Duple and Triple Meters
---Some Other Meters
---South Indian T?la
---Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation
---Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter
---North Indian T?la
---Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes
---Rhythmic Groupings
---Korean Changdan
---Polyrhythm
Speed
4. Thinking about Pitch
Pitch
--Pitch Names
---Syllables
---Numbers
---Letters
Setting the Pitch
--Who Sets the Pitch
--Pitch Placement
Pitches in Succession
--Intervals
---Naming Intervals
---Microtones
--Scale
---The Chromatic Scale
---Diatonic Scales
---The \"Oriental\" Scale
--Number of Pitches in an Octave
--Pitch Functions
--Melodic Mode
Simultaneous Pitches
--Naming \"Vertical\" Intervals
--Dissonance and Consonance
--Western Functional Harmony
--Tone Clusters
Interplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts
--Performing One Melody
---Solo and in Unison
---Interlocking Parts
---Rounds
---Heterophony
--Performing One Melody with Another Part
---Melody and Drone
---Melody and Chords
--Performing Multiple Melodies
---Polyphony
---Melody and Ostinato
5. Thinking about Structuring
Improvising and Composing
--Persons Who Compose
Putting Something Significant First
--Sonata Form
--North Indian Instrumental Form
Coming to an End
Telling the Story
--Music for the Moment
--Through-composed Music
--Contrasting Instrumentation
--Strophic Form
Responding to the Context
--Audience-Performer Interaction
--Intra-ensemble Interaction
--Music and Movement
Social Values
6. Thinking Critically about Issues
Encounters and Identities
--A Focus on Influences
--A Focus on Boundaries
---The National Community
---Regional Identity
---Gender
---Multiple Identities
Authenticity
Transcending Boundaries
--The Mass Media
--Globalization
--The Local
7. Thinking about Fieldwork
Picking a Project
Planning the Project
Doing the Project
Finishing the Project
Glossary of Musical Terms
References
Index