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Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, as researchers within the discipline focus on the most diverse of music cultures. The manifold worldviews of the resource persons, as holders and presenters (in both meanings of the word) of a tradition make the matter more complex. Such a situation has particular significance in the context of multipart singing because of the specific musical aesthetics and vocabularies established among singing groups. Additionally, it is accentuated by processes of change within every musical culture and those of ethnomusicology. Examining this question from the viewpoint of folk terminology means primarily considering specific and individual concepts of cultural listening, in the sense of 'paying attention', 'con-centrating' and 'focusing on'. These concepts are established on the one hand through the processes of music listening and music making and on the other hand through the local dis-course, in which singers and musicians as well as local communities are very much involved. The discourse as a communication category with which people communicate about the claim to validity of rules also plays an important role in processes of legitimating and power within the community. An essential part of the discourse is singing itself. The music therefore becomes the object and subject of research. Of particular relevance in this framework are questions of gender, applying to communities in which women practice multipart singing and others where they are mostly listeners, although contributing decisively in the discourse processes. A specific role become issues of brain research. In this context the functionality of an exact motor control system within the body for precise timing, sequencing and the spatial organisation of movements during musical performance become particularly important. Performing and listening to music are culturally conditioned, but they are at the same time natural human abilities. Therefore the study of underlying processes is crucial and promises to uncover fun-damental properties of the human brain. The different theoretical viewpoints in the first three chapters of the book are followed by ap-proaches of a "Lexicon of Local Terminology on Multipart Singing in Europe". These reflect the situation of a few but different communities and areas in Europe, helping to obtain additional insights into the topics in question.

Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Printed Music, Vocal --- cultural listening --- local discourse --- multipart singing --- European multipart music --- local terminology --- musical phenomena --- Daina (Lithuania) --- Melody --- Music of Lithuania --- Polyphony

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En février 1946, Geneviève Massignon, la fille du grand orientaliste Louis Massignon, a 24 ans. Elle part affronter le rude hiver canadien pour y conduire une étude sur le parler acadien, prenant note de tous les contes et de toutes les chansons populaires qu'elle peut recueillir dans cette province canadienne francophone. Puis, en 1961, à la veille de sa soutenance de thèse, elle décide de retourner sur les lieux, munie cette fois d'un matériel d'enregistrement plus fiable. Elle récolte ainsi plus de 500 chansons, qu'elle classe par thèmes. Elle meurt en 1966 sans avoir achevé l'édition de son étude, et son frère, Daniel Massignon, fait don en 1988 à la Phonothèque nationale de ces enregistrements et notes manuscrites. C'est le folkloriste Georges Delarue qui prendra en charge l'édition définitive de cet ouvrage dont le premier volume contient les textes de 50 chansons présentées avec toutes leurs variantes, conservées, vivifiées et transformées dans les provinces maritimes du Canada et le Madawaska américain. Elles sont accompagnées de commentaires détaillés visant à les situer dans leur histoire et leur devenir. Les mélodies, présentées dans le second volume, sont chaque fois notées avec une très grande précision permettant une analyse mélodique fouillée. Pour chaque chanson, une bibliographie détaillée ainsi que diverses remarques dans les commentaires permettent de la situer par rapport à ses homologues recueillies sur le territoire français.

Chansons populaires acadiennes --- Folk songs [Acadian ] --- Volksliederen [Acadianse ] --- Music --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Printed Music, Vocal --- #VCV monografie 1999 --- Ethnomusicology --- Canada --- Acadia --- Folk songs --- ethnomusicologie --- tradition orale (musique) --- musicologie --- chanson

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Electronic music --- Digital media --- Electronic media --- New media (Digital media) --- Electronic tape music --- Electronics (Music) --- Electrophonic music --- Music, Electronic --- Tape music --- Tape recorder music --- music --- media --- sound --- broadcast --- scoring --- multimedia --- Mass media --- Digital communications --- Online journalism --- Computer music --- Music --- Printed Music, Instrumental

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This absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, teacher, wife, and mother of eight children, she was an important force in the musical world of her time. To show how Schumann surmounted the obstacles facing female artists in the nineteenth century, Nancy B. Reich has drawn on previously unexplored primary sources: unpublished diaries, letters, and family papers, as well as concert programs. Going beyond the familiar legends of the Schumann literature, she applies the tools of musicological scholarship and the insights of psychology to provide a new, full-scale portrait.The book is divided into two parts. In Part One, Reich follows Clara Schumann's life from her early years as a child prodigy through her marriage to Robert Schumann and into the forty years after his death, when she established and maintained an extraordinary European career while supporting and supervising a household and seven children. Part Two covers four major themes in Schumann's life: her relationship with Johannes Brahms and other friends and contemporaries; her creative work; her life on the concert stage; and her success as a teacher.Throughout, excerpts from diaries and letters in Reich's own translations clear up misconceptions about her life and achievements and her partnership with Robert Schumann. Highlighting aspects of Clara Schumann's personality and character that have been neglected by earlier biographers, this candid and eminently readable account adds appreciably to our understanding of a fascinating artist and woman.For this revised edition, Reich has added several photographs and updated the text to include recent discoveries. She has also prepared a Catalogue of Works that includes all of Clara Schumann's known published and unpublished compositions and works she edited, as well as descriptions of the autographs, the first editions, the modern editions, and recent literature on each piece. The Catalogue also notes Schumann's performances of her own music and provides pertinent "ations from letters, diaries, and contemporary reviews.

Pianists --- Schumann, Clara, --- Schumann, Clara Josephine Wieck, --- Shuman, Klara, --- Shūman, Kurara, --- Vik, Klara, --- Wieck, Clara, --- Wieck-Schumann, Clara, --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Biografie. --- MUSIC --- Pianistes --- Pianists. --- Composers & Musicians. --- Women. --- Musical Instruments --- Piano & Keyboard. --- Printed Music --- Percussion. --- Schumann, Clara. --- Germany. --- Germany --- Biography --- Schumann, Clara, - 1819-1896.

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In the bleak cage of the Soviet Union, a brilliant pianist, inspired by the music of Olivier Messiaen, survived and triumphed. This is his story, told partly in his own words.

Pianists. --- MUSIC / Printed Music / Percussion --- MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians --- Pianists --- Messiaen, Olivier, --- Haimovsky, Gregory. --- Soviet Union. --- Messian, O., --- Mesianas, O., --- Khaĭmovskiĭ, Grigoriĭ --- Khaĭmovskiĭ, Gregori --- Хаймовский, Грегори --- Messiaen, Olivier --- Messian, O. --- Mesianas, O. --- Dmitri Shostakovich. --- Music history. --- Musicology. --- Russian culture. --- Russian musical history. --- Russian piano school. --- Soviet ideology pianists. --- Soviet. --- Stal. --- World War II: anti-Semitism. --- artistic citizenship. --- exile. --- twentieth-century French music.