APRIL 30
Provocation
Lester, Joel. “Notated and Heard Meter” in Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring - Summer, 1986, pp. 116-128
Investigation
Jairazbhoy, Nazir. Excerpts pp 3-15, 32-45 of The Rāgs of North Indian Music: Their Structure and Evolution. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1995 [First Edition London: Faber & Faber, 1971.]
Wade, Bonnie. Excerpts of Music in India: The Classical Traditions New York: Prentice-Hall,1979; reprinted Riverdale/Simon and Schuster, 1987; second edition, Manohar, 1997.
Optional/Additional Reading (“Persian-Ottoman Context”)
Al-Farabi (872-c. 950 CE). Excerpts on rhythm from Kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr (“Grand Book on Music.”)
Seydi, Book on Music (ca. 1450)—In Seydi’s Book on Music: a 15th-century Turkish Discourse, trans. & ed. By Eugenia Popescu-Judetz (Frankfurt am Main : Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 2004)
MAY 7
Hesselink, Nathan. “Rhythm and Folk Drumming (P’ungmul) as the Musical Embodiment of Communal Consciousness,” [follow links below for text] in Analytical and Cross-cultural studies in World Music. New York: Oxford, 2011. pp d 263-287
Reading/Listening: Password access only [see email 2/7/13]: various Reading and Listening associated with P’ungmul.