| Class |
Date |
Material |
| 1 |
24 Jan |
Introduction to "Music and Culture"
In-class written assignment |
| 2 |
26 Jan |
Water to a Fish
Huron, David. "An Instinct for Music: Is Music an Evolutionary Adaptation?" The 1999 Ernest Bloch Lectures. University of California, Berkeley: Department of Music. |
| 3 |
31 Jan |
David Attenbourough. Song of the Earth. London: BBC video, 2002. |
| 4 |
2 Feb |
Blacking, John. "The Biology of Music-Making." In Ethnomusicology: An Introduction (Edited by Helen Myers): 301-314. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. |
| 5 |
7 Feb |
Nettl, Bruno. "The Art of Combining Tones." In The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-nine Issues and Concepts (15-25). University of Illinois Press, 1983. |
| 6 |
9 Feb |
Class Presentations |
| 7 |
14 Feb |
Class Presentations |
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15 Feb |
"Water to a Fish" essay due. Send as an email attanchment. |
| 8 |
16 Feb |
The Beautiful Blue Jay
In-class written assignment |
| 9 |
21 Feb |
Lomax, Alan. Folksong Style and Culture. Washington, D.C.: Colonial Press Inc, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1968. [Publication no. 88, 1st Printing 1968, 2nd Printing 1971.] |
| 10 |
23 Feb |
no seminar |
| 11 |
28 Feb |
Feld, Steven. "Sound Structure as Social Structure." In Ethnomusicology (September 1984): 383-409. |
| 12 |
2 Mar |
Weidman, Amanda. "Anthropology and the Voice." In Anthropology News (January 2011): 13. |
| 13 |
7 Mar |
Class Presentations |
| 14 |
9 Mar |
Class Presentations |
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10 Mar |
"Beautiful Blue Jay" essay due. Send as an email attachment. |
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Spring Break |
| 15 |
21 Mar |
Mahillon's Dilemma
In-class written assignment |
| 16 |
23 Mar |
Dournon, Geneviève. Organology. In Ethnomusicology: An Introduction (edited by Helen Myers): 245-300. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992. |
| 17 |
28 Mar |
Kartomi, Margaret. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1991.
——. "Classification in Societies Oriented toward Literary Transmission: Continuities and Change in Chinese Classifications." In On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1991.
——. "Indian and Sri Lankan Classifications from Ancient to Modern Times." In On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1991. |
| 18 |
30 Mar |
A conversation with Roderick Knight, Professor Emeritus, Oberlin College about his reworking of Sachs-Hornbostel. |
| 19 |
4 Apr |
West African instruments [ML544 .W47 1978]
The Performing Arts of China: Instruments and Music [ML531 .P47 1983]
Copper, Tin, and Fire: Gongsmithing in Java [ML3758.J3 C6 1989] |
| 20 |
6 Apr |
Class Presentations |
| 21 |
11 Apr |
Class Presentations |
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12 Apr |
"Mahillon's Dilemma" essay due. Send as an email attachment. |
| 22 |
13 Apr |
Pythagoras Redux
In-class written assignment |
| 23 |
18 Apr |
Randel, Don. Interval. In The New Harvard Dictionary of Music.
Cambridge, MA: The Harvard University Press, 1986. |
| 24 |
20 Apr |
Kuttner, Fritz. 1975. "Prince Chu Tsai-Yu's Life and Work: A Re-evaluation
of His Contribution to Equal Temperament Theory." In Ethnomusicology 19 (2):163-206.
McClain,Ernest G. with Ming Shui Hung. 1979. "Chinese Cyclic Tunings
in Late Antiquity." In Ethnomusicology 23 (2): 205-224. |
| 25 |
25 Apr |
Belluck, Pam. "To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons." In The New York Times (18 April 2011). |
| 26 |
27 Apr |
Class Presentations |
| 27 |
2 May |
Class Presentations |
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3 May |
"Pythagoras Redux" essay due. Send as an email attachment. |
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