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Towards the Comparative Study of the Structure of Traditional Repertoires

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Bruno Nettl
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
Stephen Blum
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Extract

A major characteristic of ethnomusicology is that it deals with bodies of music, or repertories, variously defined. In contrast to the kind of music-historical studies which involve the works of one composer, or which concentrate on important single, individual compositions, ethnomusicological studies deal primarily with corpora of music which originate from one culture, or which are used by one culture for a particular purpose. Thus, the study of a tribal style, or of the style of a functional group of songs or pieces such as ballads or funeral songs, is the central type of publication in this field.

Type
Techniques in the Study of Folk Music
Copyright
Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1968

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Notes

1. Koller, Oswald, “Die beste Methode, Volks- und volksmässige Lieder lexikalish zu orden,” Sammelbände der internationalen Musikgesellschaft 4, 1902, 115.Google Scholar

2. For example, the conference of the International Folk Music Council 1964, Budapest, whose proceedings are published in Studia Musicologica 7, 1965, and contain fifteen papers on this subject.

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