Folk & Traditional Music of the Western Continents

An exploration of the folk & traditional music of Europe, Africa & America.

Original book of 200+ pages by BRUNO NETTL University of Illinois

About This Book
This book explores in detail a body of music called ethnic, folk, or "traditional," as it is found in Europe, most of Africa, and the Americas. This music consists essentially of two groups: 1) folk music, which is found in those areas in which there is also a develop­ment of urban, professionalized, cultivated classical music, and 2) primitive music, which is the music of the nonliterate cultures, those that do not have a tradition of sophisticated musical culture living alongside the musical folk culture.

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Publishers Notice Title Page Dedication Foreword Foreword Preface Preface Contents Contents 1 Folk and Traditional Music in its Cultural Setting - 0101 Page - 0102 Oral tradition - 0103 How does traditional music originate - 0104 Page - 0105 Folk music as national expression - 0106 Page - 0107 Page - 0108 Historical perspective - 0109 Music as an aspect of culture - 0110 Page - 0111 Traditional music and art music - 0112 Page - 0113 Page - 0114 2 Studying the Structure of Folk Music - 0115 Form - 0116 Page - 0117 Page - 0118 Polyphony - 0119 Rhythm and tempo - 0120 Melody and scale - 0121 Page - 0122 Page - 0123 Description of a culture's music - 0124 Research in traditional music - ethnomusicology - 0125 Page - 0126 Transcription and analysis - 0127 Page - 0128 Page - 0129 Page - 0130 Page - 0131 Page - 0132 3 The General Character of European Folk Music - 0133 Page - 0134 The strophic form - 0135 Page - 0136 Characteristics of European scales - 0137 Page - 0138 Page - 0139 Page - 0140 Meter and singing style - 0141 Page - 0142 Page - 0143 Page - 0144 Wandering melodies - 0145 Some song type found in Europe - 0146 Page - 0147 Page - 0148 Page - 0149 Instruments and instrumental music - 0150 Page - 0151 Page - 0152 4 The Germanic Peoples - 0153 The English Child ballads - 0154 Page - 0155 Page - 0156 Page - 0157 Broadside ballads - 0158 The style o: English folk music - 0159 Page - 0160 Page - 0161 Page - 0162 Page - 0163 Some Netherlandish folk dances - 0164 Page - 0165 Samples of Scandinavian folk music - 0166 Page - 0167 Page - 0168 German folk song - 0169 Page - 0170 Page - 0171 Page - 0172 Germar folk music outside Germany proper - 0173 Page - 0174 Page - 0175 5 Eastern Europe - 0176 Melodic sequence: Hungarians,Czechs, Cheremis, - 0177 Page - 0178 Page - 0179 Words,music and rhythm: The Balkans and Czechoslovakia - 0180 Page - 0181 Page - 0182 Page - 0183 Page - 0184 Form in Balkan folk songs - 0185 Epics: Yugoslavia,Finland,Russia - 0186 Page - 0187 Page - 0188 Page - 0189 Page - 0190 Scales and intervals: Bulgaria, Greece,Poland, - 0191 Page - 0192 Musical instruments - 0193 Page - 0194 Page - 0195 Polyphony: The Slavic countries and the Caucasus - 0196 Page - 0197 Page - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 6 France\Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula - 0202

Some aspects of French folk music - 0203 Page - 0204 Page - 0205 Polyphonic Italian folk song - 0206 Page - 0207 Some other aspects of Italian folk music - 0208 Peculiarities of the Basque heritage - 0209 Page - 0210 Page - 0211 Spain and Portugal - 0212 Page - 0213 Page - 0214 Page - 0215 Page - 0216 Page - 0217 7 African Music South of the Sahara - 0218 Page - 0219 The uses of music in Africa, - 0220 Music and tone languages - 0221 Page - 0222 Page - 0223 General characteristics of African forms - 0224 - 0225 - 0226 Melody - 0227 Page - 0228 Rhythm - 0229 Page - 0230 Page - 0231 Polyphony - 0232 Page - 0233 Page - 0234 Instruments - 0235 Page - 0236 Page - 0237 Page - 0238 Page - 0239 Page - 0240 Page - 0241 Page - 0242 Page - 0243 Regional variation in African Negro music - 0244 Page - 0245 Page - 0246 8 The American Indians - 0247 Page - 0248 The simplest styles - an example from Bolivia - 0249 Uses of Indian music - an example from the Plains - 0250 Page - 0251 Music in Indian thought - 0252 Musical instruments - 0253 Page - 0254 Page - 0255 Styles by area in North America - 0256 Page - 0257 Page - 0258 Page - 0259 Page - 0260 Page - 0261 Indian music of Latin America - 0262 Page - 0263 The words of Indian songs - 0264 Indian music in transition - 0265 Page - 0266 Page - 0267 Page - 0268 Negro Folk Music in the Neiv World - 0269 The origins of the New World Negro styles - 0270 Page - 0271 Page - 0272 Negro music in Latin America - 0273 Page - 0274 Page - 0275 New World Negro instruments - 0276 Page - 0277 Page - 0278 Page - 0279 Negro folk music in the United States - 0280 Page - 0281 Page - 0282 Page - 0283 Page - 0284 Page - 0285 Page - 0286 Page - 0287 10 Western and Western-Descended Folk Music in the Americas - 0288 South American folk music - 0289 Page - 0290 Middle America: Mexico and the Caribbean - 0291 Page - 0292 Page - 0293 Ethnic minoritiesinNorth America - 0294 Page - 0295 Page - 0296 Folk music in American cities - 0297 Page - 0298 Page - 0299 Page - 0300 The rural Anglo-American tradition - 0301 Page - 0302 Page - 0303 Page - 0304 Bibliography and discography Page - 0306 Page - 0307 Index Page - 0309 Page - 0310 Page - 0311 Page - 0312 Page - 0313