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MUSA 11 Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements Edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine |
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This
edition explores the history of musical contact, interaction, and exchange
between American Indians and Euramericans, as documented in musical
transcriptions, notations, and arrangements. The edition contributes to an
understanding of American music that reflects our cultural reality, by
depicting the reciprocal influences among Native Americans, scholars,
composers, and educators, and by illustrating some of the consequences of
the encounter for American musical life in general. Culled from a
published record of over 8,000 songs, this edition contains 116 musical
examples reproduced in facsimile. These include the earliest attempts to
represent tribal music in European notation, archetypal transcriptions in
the scholarly literature of ethnomusicology, and recent contributions by
contemporary scholars. Some of the notations included in the edition
inspired composers in search of a distinctively American musical idiom to
write works based on American Indian melodies. Other notations presented
here captured the imagination of generations of school children, whose
concept of American cultural and musical identity became intimately
connected with American Indians. Native scholars, educators, and
indigenous notations, and recent compositions by native composers working
in the classical vein are also represented in this volume. As a compendium
of historic materials, the edition thus illustrates the development of
Euramerican attitudes and approaches to American Indian musics, the
infusion of native musics into American musical culture, and native
responses to and participation in the enterprise. | ||
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