Comparative Organography in Early Modern Empires

Irving, David R. M.

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“…Juntamente com o musicólogo alemão Curt Sachs, responsável pela coleção de instrumentos musicais do Staatliche Instrumentensammlung, elaborou um sistema de classificação conhecido como sistema Sachs- Hornbostel (1914). Esse sistema, pioneiro nos estudos de organologia, importante campo da musicologia comparada e que vem se dinamizando com renovadas abordagens (De vale, 1990;Irving, 2009;Bates, 2012) é ainda amplamente usado como referência para a classificação dos instrumentos (Seeger, 1987;Travassos, 1987). Um aspecto importante desse estudo -e que nos interessa diretamente -é justamente a possibilidade de descrever a afinação e as escalas tendo como base a morfologia dos instrumentos, bem como a sonoridade que eles produzem 9 .…”

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Em busca do limiar sonoro: gestos, sons e riscos na afinação das folias

Chaves

2021

Rev. antropol.

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O artigo aborda a afinação dos instrumentos musicais no contexto religioso e festivo das folias na Taboquinha, localidade rural pertencente ao município de São Francisco, norte de Minas Gerais. O texto chama a atenção para a dinâmica envolvida no processo de afinação, entendendo o fenômeno como uma prática coletiva realizada na interação entre pessoas por meio de uma economia expressiva e comunicativa, envolvendo gestos, objetos, movimentos corporais, olhares, palavras e sonoridades. Nessa direção, a pergunta que anima este exercício não é tanto qual é a afinação ou o que é afinação, mas: como se afinam os instrumentos? O que acontece quando a prática é realizada? Quais os efeitos produzidos pela afinação? Como a afinação se relaciona com outras situações e momentos do ciclo ritual das folias? O artigo sugere ainda que a afinação, se por um lado cria um enquadramento, um sentido de coletividade e integração; por outro, é permeada de perigos, riscos e incertezas, fazendo dela uma busca constante, um movimento contínuo, um limiar entre tensões, alturas e frequências.

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Em busca do limiar sonoro: gestos, sons e riscos na afinação das folias

Chaves

2021

Rev. antropol.

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“…The phonograph would never have turned into such an effective tool in the hands of so many ethnographers and musicologists, if the key issues of comparative musicology had not been prepared and developed long before this remarkable technical innovation. Paradoxically, the early history of comparative musicology has been studied by historical musicologists (Rainbow, 1986;Ringer, 1991;Zon, 2006 andIrving, 2009) more profoundly than by ethnomusicologists, among which Joep Bor (1988), Philip V. Bohlman (1991), andMervyn McLean (2006) may be called pioneers. Notably, Frank Harrison (1973) covered both disciplines.…”

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“…The convergence of different societies around the world as a result of sustained contact through trade, diplomacy, or colonialism in the early modern period meant that hierarchies of cultural and religious symbolism had to be recast in the light of intercultural comparisons, but in some cases they were unceremoniously supressed by a hegemonic imperial power (Irving, 2009: 383).…”

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Towards the History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology: Theory and Methods between the Late 18th and the Early 20th Century

Morgenstern¹

2018

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The history of ethnomusicology is the history of ideas and concepts of why and how to deal with expressive practices in social formations which are usually located outside the researcher's primary cultural experience. Ideas in ethnomusicology (comparative musicology, anthropology of music, folk music research, folkloristics) are interlinked with other scholarly disciplines and academic fields. The history of the field is sometimes described as a shift from either a more philologically oriented study of "national" folk music or "armchair anthropology" to a modern anthropological concept expressed in context-oriented, sociological, and performer-centered research, as well as in urban ethnomusicology. However, a great deal of issues frequently associated with English-speaking mainstream ethnomusicology of the last five decades (the "ethnographic turn") appeared in the intellectual folk music discourses as early as the late 18 th and the 19 th century. In a similar way, the history of comparative musicology as a scholarly concept can be traced back at least to the Age of Enlightenment. This article traces the emergence and early history of motivations, theoretical paradigms and research methods by discussing the following key issues and conceptual oppositions: Comparative study of musical cultures; Fieldwork experience; Aesthetic appreciation vs. value-free textual analysis; Relativism of expressive cultures: "our" and "their" concepts (emic/etic issues); The paradigm of orality vs. Kunstlieder im Volksmunde; "Living antiquities" vs. the sociology of folklore; Cultural homogeneity vs. performercentered research; Studying songs vs. studying singing; Music in its cultural context-"uses and functions"; Standards of notation and documentation; Rural vs. urban research; 'Cultural purity' vs. intercultural exchange.

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E. M. Forster and Music

Tsai¹

2021

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This book examines the political resonances of E. M. Forster's representations of music, offering readings of canonical and overlooked works. It reveals music's crucial role in his writing and draws attention to a previously unacknowledged eclecticism and complexity in Forster's ideological outlook. Examining unobtrusive musical allusions in a variety of Forster's writings, this book demonstrates how music provided Forster with a means of reflecting on race and epistemology, material culture and colonialism, literary heritage and national character, hero-worship and war, and gender and professionalism. It unveils how Forster's musical representations are mediated through a matrix of ideas and debates of his time, such as those about evolution, empire, Britain's relationship with the Continent, the rise of fascism, and the emergence of musicology as an academic discipline.

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Comparative Organography in Early Modern Empires

Cited by 8 publications

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Em busca do limiar sonoro: gestos, sons e riscos na afinação das folias

Em busca do limiar sonoro: gestos, sons e riscos na afinação das folias

Towards the History of Ideas in Ethnomusicology: Theory and Methods between the Late 18th and the Early 20th Century

E. M. Forster and Music

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