Music and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Ritual write by Keith Howard. This book was released on 2006. Music and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural Writing. Published through Muske, whose purpose is to research, recover, document and conserve the world's ethnomusicological heritage and to disseminate it across a wide audience, the papers in MUSIC AND RITUAL "were first prepared for a panel...at the 2005 annual conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology....At the conference, it seemed timely to return to how performance informs, illustrates and interpenetrates ritual, without setting a clear, narrow, agenda in our call for papers...[These papers] explore questions raised by the performance of music and movement, and their interrelationships, in artistic practice beyond the European art and popular music canons"--from the Introduction by Keith Howard.
Music & Ritual
Music & Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music & Ritual write by Jiménez Pasalodos Jiménez. This book was released on 2013. Music & Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Musical Ritual in Mexico City
Musical Ritual in Mexico City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Ritual in Mexico City write by Mark Pedelty. This book was released on 2009-06-03. Musical Ritual in Mexico City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the Zócalo, the main square of Mexico City, Mexico's entire musical history is performed every day. "Mexica" percussionists drum and dance to the music of Aztec rituals on the open plaza. Inside the Metropolitan Cathedral, choristers sing colonial villancicos. Outside the National Palace, the Mexican army marching band plays the "Himno Nacional," a vestige of the nineteenth century. And all around the square, people listen to the contemporary sounds of pop, rock, and música grupera. In all, some seven centuries of music maintain a living presence in the modern city. This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and ethnography of musical rituals in the world's largest city. Mark Pedelty details the dominant musical rites of the Aztec, colonial, national, revolutionary, modern, and contemporary eras, analyzing the role that musical ritual played in governance, resistance, and social change. His approach is twofold. Historical chapters describe the rituals and their functions, while ethnographic chapters explore how these musical forms continue to resonate in contemporary Mexican society. As a whole, the book provides a living record of cultural continuity, change, and vitality.
Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol
Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol write by Judith Marie Kubicki. This book was released on 1999. Liturgical Music as Ritual Symbol available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Sister Kubicki uses Jacques Berthier's Taize music to explore the nature of liturgical music as ritual symbol. She carries out a hermeneutical analysis of Berthier's chants and examines biographical and historical data related to the creator's of Taize music and the founding of the Taize community. The author draws on five areas of study to interpret the Taize chants as ritual symbol - symbol theory, semiotics, theologies of symbol, ritual theory, and perfomative language theory. The final chapter explores potential ecclesial meanings which may be mediated in the Taize liturgy and the role of Berthier's chants in mediating that meaning. The study concludes that it is music's symbolic property that enables it to be both ministerial and integral to the liturgy. As symbolic activity, music-making evokes participation, negotiates relationships, and enables the assembly to orient themselves and to find their identity and place within their world. Furthermore, music-making provides the illocutionary force to "do something" in the act of singing. Thus it is that as part of a complexus of ritual symbols, music interacts with other symbols, in mediating the liturgy's meaning.
Harmony and Counterpoint
Harmony and Counterpoint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harmony and Counterpoint write by Bell Yung. This book was released on 1996. Harmony and Counterpoint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.
