Intro to Etnomusikolohiya PDF

INTRODUKSYON SA etnomusikolohiya  I. THE STUDY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY a branch of cultural anthropology dealing with the origin, distribution, and distinguishing characteristics of human societies. ethnological ETHNO MUSICAL...

INTRODUKSYON SA etnomusikolohiya  I. THE STUDY OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY a branch of cultural anthropology dealing with the origin, distribution, and distinguishing characteristics of human societies. ethnological ETHNO MUSICAL musicological the study of music as a branch of knowledge or field of research as distinct from composition or performance. AS LITERATURE one scholar writes technically upon the structure of music sound as a system in itself, AS FUNCTION treat music as a functioning part of human culture and as an integral part of a wider whole. ANTHROPOLOGY VS ETHNO- MUSICOLOGY DEFINITIONS???? Bejnamin Gilman (1909) study of exotic music properly comprised primitive and Oriental forms. W.V. Bingham (1914) the music of Dalmatian peasants. Marius Schneider (1957:1) the "primary aim" is the comparative study of all the characteristics, normal or otherwise, of non-European [music]. Nettl (1956) the science that deal with the music of peoples outside of Western civilization. These definitions views the ethnomusicology stressed the geographic areas rather than the kinds of studies to be made. the emphasis is placed upon WHERE rather than upon HOW or WHY, and if this be the aim of ethnomusicology, then it is indeed difficult to see how its contribution differs from the musicology, in the sense that its techniques are implied to be identical, or ethnology, in that a similar area of the world is stressed. ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Unique Field Research Recording methods Documentation Application Ethnography Expenses Research dissemination Other definitions of Ethnomusicology have tended to broaded its scope and to approach. William Rhodes (1956) The Music of the Near East, the Far East, Indonesia, Africa, North American Indians and European folk music." - "the study of popular music and dance" Jaap Kunst (1959).. it studies as well the sociological aspects of music, as the phenomena of musical acculturation, i.e. the hybradizing influence of alien musical elements. Alan Merriam (1960) The study of music in culture. In order to understand why a music structure exists as it does, we must also understand how and why the behavior which produces it is as its, and how and why the concepts which underlie that behavior are ordered in such a way to produce the particularly desired form of organized sound. Collection of Data Analysis Relevance MISCONCEPTION #1 The music of the other peoples is inferior and unworthy of study and appreciation. MISCONCEPTION #2 Folk is fast disappearing and that it must be recorded and studied before its gone. MISCONCEPTION #3 Music is the "universal language."