Michael Tenzer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 101846 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Tenzer |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Tenzer |
| FIRMA | TENZER M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4353-3654 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Gusti Putu Madé Geria’s Theory for Balinese Gamelan
The contents of a set of undated, handwritten notebooks by Balinese musician
The Art of Mbira
Journal Article The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and LegacyPaul F. BerlinerMbira’s Restless Dance: An Archive of ImprovisationPaul F. Berliner and Cosmas Magaya Get access The Art of Mbira: Musical Inheritance and Legacy. By Paul F. Berliner. Pp. 608. ( University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2020. ISBN 978-0-226-62868-4, $45.)Mbira’s Restless Dance: An Archive of Improvisation. By Paul F. Berliner Cosmas Magaya. Pp. 912. Chicago St…
Polyphony
This chapter situates the extensive phenomenon of musical polyphony globally, taking typological and historical/material approaches in turn, and interspersing applications of comparative method that crosscut both. The typological method involves first considering the elemental aspects of musical sounds and the ways they can be combined, individually and in sequences, to create patterns we recognize as belonging to one of several polyphonic catego…
Chasing the Phantom
Balinese composer Dewa Alit (b. 1973) splits his time between home and abroad, absorbing many kinds of music. His latest gamelan work (2016) isNgejuk Memedi, from the Balinesengejuk, to chase, andmemedi, a feared phantom of the Balinese unseen world that takes human form. It animates his evolving desire for a "broader conception of what gamelan is, one based on its relationship to other cultures" (Alit in Tenzer 2011, 134), while submitting to th…
L'Enquête en Ethnomusicologie
Book Review| May 01 2016 L’Enquête en Ethnomusicologie: Préparation, Terrain, Analyse L’Enquête en Ethnomusicologie: Préparation, Terrain, Analyse. Simha Arom and Denis-Constant Martin. 2015. MusicologieS Series. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. 284 pp., in French, index. Paper, € 15.00. Michael Tenzer Michael Tenzer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2016) 60 (2): 371–375. https://doi.org/10.5406/e…
Meditations on Objective Aesthetics in World Music
This essay opens a dialogue between ethnomusicology and neo- Darwinism as promulgated by biologist Richard Dawkins and others. The first half engages quantum physicist David Deutsch's much-discussed The Beginning of Infinity (2011), which integrates neo-Darwinism with the epistemology of objective knowledge developed by Karl Popper. Along the way Deutsch suggests that aesthetics with universal reach, akin to scientific facts, must be discoverable…
From Kuno to Kebyar
Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music
One Fusion Among Many
The relationship between world music traditions and modernist art music in the European tradition is often explored in composers’ musical fusions, but the motivations and aesthetics of such works often receive less notice than those grounded in post-modern (minimalist, popular music) approaches. In this essay the author asserts a particular relationship between rigorous modern composition technique and the highly rational patterning of Indonesian…
Indonesia
Generalized Representations of Musical Time and Periodic Structures
M God, what has sound got to do with music?” quoth Charles Ives ([1920] 2004:54). Music—and musical time—are embodied phenomena, but every musical utterance filters through perception, and is subject to diverse and sometimes contradictory audiations depending on production, reception, context, history, affinity, and many other known factors. That is all semiotics. Yet despite the flux, there is the possibility of a systematic typology of time str…
Africa Stand Up!—and Be Counted Among Others
5] In the African examples, that the slightest alteration of a rhythmic pattern has a strong effect on the cycle's metric particularity testifies to the tight warp and weft of content and cyclic frame, even when there is variation or transformation
Wayan Gandera et l’histoire cachée du Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Wayan Gandera and the Hidden History of Gamelan Gong Kebyar In 2002 the notorious but celebrated Balinese gamelan drummer and composer Wayan Gandera passed away at the age of 69. His last musical act, months before his death, was by far his most stunning : he taught the members of Çudamani, the dynamic young gamelan collective of Pengosekan – a village close to his own home community of Peliatan – a pair of complex modern compositions that he had…
Analytical Studies in World Music
Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, this book offers perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, Shanghai opera, flamenco, modern American chamber music, Central African group singing, Bulgarian dance tunes, South Indian song, and a Moz…
Analytical studies in world music
This text assembles 11 distinguished writers on music to discuss the ingenuity with which sound is organized in musical traditions all over the world. It contains an introductory chapter which proposes ways to think about musical structures cross-culturally.
Gamelan, architecture sonore (et Gamelan mécanique)
Form and content are a universal yin and yang. While the subject of this brief essay is the above-named website’s content—a theory of structure and cultural meaning for the gamelan traditions of Bali, Central Java, and Sunda—the form of their presentation deserves its own consideration. A site’s content cannot be considered separately from the manner in which it is displayed, and this distinction necessitates an opening digression. Books and Webs…
José Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia
Tout au long de sa vie, le musicien et ethnomusicologue philippin Jose Maceda, s'est engage pour reconfigurer la vie musicale aux Philippines et en Asie du Sud-Est et orientale. A partir des annees 1950, il a tente de comprendre, d'apprehender et de transformer l'esprit du modernisme europeen dans la composition musicale - particulierement la musique de Iannis Xenakis et d'Edgard Varese - et de l'integrer avec les principes et l'esthetique de la …
Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan
Like many other musics with a primarily cyclic approach to melodic and rhythmic organization, Balinese gamelan music of the court or court-derived traditions relies upon on symmetries of one kind or another for structural coherence. Gamelan genres originating in other Balinese historical or cultural contexts have different, often more asymmetrical, kinds of organizing principles. In this article a set of Balinese concepts of melodic motion are us…
Living Art, Sounding Spirit
Britten and the Far East
Benjamin Britten's strong interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book explores the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian sources. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent w…
Voices in Bali
Bali
Out of Indonesia
The Life in Gendhing
Page range: 169-186
Balinese Music in America
Chasing the Phantom
Balinese composer Dewa Alit (b. 1973) splits his time between home and abroad, absorbing many kinds of music. His latest gamelan work (2016) isNgejuk Memedi, from the Balinesengejuk, to chase, andmemedi, a feared phantom of the Balinese unseen world that takes human form. It animates his evolving desire for a "broader conception of what gamelan is, one based on its relationship to other cultures" (Alit in Tenzer 2011, 134), while submitting to th…
Meditations on Objective Aesthetics in World Music
This essay opens a dialogue between ethnomusicology and neo- Darwinism as promulgated by biologist Richard Dawkins and others. The first half engages quantum physicist David Deutsch's much-discussed The Beginning of Infinity (2011), which integrates neo-Darwinism with the epistemology of objective knowledge developed by Karl Popper. Along the way Deutsch suggests that aesthetics with universal reach, akin to scientific facts, must be discoverable…
Generalized Representations of Musical Time and Periodic Structures
M God, what has sound got to do with music?” quoth Charles Ives ([1920] 2004:54). Music—and musical time—are embodied phenomena, but every musical utterance filters through perception, and is subject to diverse and sometimes contradictory audiations depending on production, reception, context, history, affinity, and many other known factors. That is all semiotics. Yet despite the flux, there is the possibility of a systematic typology of time str…
José Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia
Tout au long de sa vie, le musicien et ethnomusicologue philippin Jose Maceda, s'est engage pour reconfigurer la vie musicale aux Philippines et en Asie du Sud-Est et orientale. A partir des annees 1950, il a tente de comprendre, d'apprehender et de transformer l'esprit du modernisme europeen dans la composition musicale - particulierement la musique de Iannis Xenakis et d'Edgard Varese - et de l'integrer avec les principes et l'esthetique de la …
Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan
Like many other musics with a primarily cyclic approach to melodic and rhythmic organization, Balinese gamelan music of the court or court-derived traditions relies upon on symmetries of one kind or another for structural coherence. Gamelan genres originating in other Balinese historical or cultural contexts have different, often more asymmetrical, kinds of organizing principles. In this article a set of Balinese concepts of melodic motion are us…
The Life in Gendhing
Page range: 169-186
Balinese Music
New Music in the Orient
Balinese Music
Balinese Music
Balinese Music in America
The Life in Gendhing
Page range: 169-186
Bali
Out of Indonesia
Voices in Bali
Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan
Like many other musics with a primarily cyclic approach to melodic and rhythmic organization, Balinese gamelan music of the court or court-derived traditions relies upon on symmetries of one kind or another for structural coherence. Gamelan genres originating in other Balinese historical or cultural contexts have different, often more asymmetrical, kinds of organizing principles. In this article a set of Balinese concepts of melodic motion are us…
Living Art, Sounding Spirit
Britten and the Far East
Benjamin Britten's strong interest in the musical traditions of the Far East had a far-reaching influence on his compositional style; this book explores the highly original cross-cultural synthesis he was able to achieve through the use of material borrowed from Balinese, Japanese and Indian sources. Britten's visit to Indonesia and Japan in 1955-6 is reconstructed from archival sources, and shown to have had a profound impact on his subsequent w…
José Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia
Tout au long de sa vie, le musicien et ethnomusicologue philippin Jose Maceda, s'est engage pour reconfigurer la vie musicale aux Philippines et en Asie du Sud-Est et orientale. A partir des annees 1950, il a tente de comprendre, d'apprehender et de transformer l'esprit du modernisme europeen dans la composition musicale - particulierement la musique de Iannis Xenakis et d'Edgard Varese - et de l'integrer avec les principes et l'esthetique de la …
Gamelan, architecture sonore (et Gamelan mécanique)
Form and content are a universal yin and yang. While the subject of this brief essay is the above-named website’s content—a theory of structure and cultural meaning for the gamelan traditions of Bali, Central Java, and Sunda—the form of their presentation deserves its own consideration. A site’s content cannot be considered separately from the manner in which it is displayed, and this distinction necessitates an opening digression. Books and Webs…
Analytical Studies in World Music
Combining the approaches of ethnomusicology and music theory, this book offers perspectives for thinking about how musical sounds are shaped, arranged, and composed by their diverse makers worldwide. Eleven in-depth explanations of Iranian sung poetry, Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, Afro-Cuban drumming, Shanghai opera, flamenco, modern American chamber music, Central African group singing, Bulgarian dance tunes, South Indian song, and a Moz…
Analytical studies in world music
This text assembles 11 distinguished writers on music to discuss the ingenuity with which sound is organized in musical traditions all over the world. It contains an introductory chapter which proposes ways to think about musical structures cross-culturally.
Africa Stand Up!—and Be Counted Among Others
5] In the African examples, that the slightest alteration of a rhythmic pattern has a strong effect on the cycle's metric particularity testifies to the tight warp and weft of content and cyclic frame, even when there is variation or transformation
Wayan Gandera et l’histoire cachée du Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Wayan Gandera and the Hidden History of Gamelan Gong Kebyar In 2002 the notorious but celebrated Balinese gamelan drummer and composer Wayan Gandera passed away at the age of 69. His last musical act, months before his death, was by far his most stunning : he taught the members of Çudamani, the dynamic young gamelan collective of Pengosekan – a village close to his own home community of Peliatan – a pair of complex modern compositions that he had…
Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music
One Fusion Among Many
The relationship between world music traditions and modernist art music in the European tradition is often explored in composers’ musical fusions, but the motivations and aesthetics of such works often receive less notice than those grounded in post-modern (minimalist, popular music) approaches. In this essay the author asserts a particular relationship between rigorous modern composition technique and the highly rational patterning of Indonesian…
Indonesia
Generalized Representations of Musical Time and Periodic Structures
M God, what has sound got to do with music?” quoth Charles Ives ([1920] 2004:54). Music—and musical time—are embodied phenomena, but every musical utterance filters through perception, and is subject to diverse and sometimes contradictory audiations depending on production, reception, context, history, affinity, and many other known factors. That is all semiotics. Yet despite the flux, there is the possibility of a systematic typology of time str…
From Kuno to Kebyar
Meditations on Objective Aesthetics in World Music
This essay opens a dialogue between ethnomusicology and neo- Darwinism as promulgated by biologist Richard Dawkins and others. The first half engages quantum physicist David Deutsch's much-discussed The Beginning of Infinity (2011), which integrates neo-Darwinism with the epistemology of objective knowledge developed by Karl Popper. Along the way Deutsch suggests that aesthetics with universal reach, akin to scientific facts, must be discoverable…
L'Enquête en Ethnomusicologie
Book Review| May 01 2016 L’Enquête en Ethnomusicologie: Préparation, Terrain, Analyse L’Enquête en Ethnomusicologie: Préparation, Terrain, Analyse. Simha Arom and Denis-Constant Martin. 2015. MusicologieS Series. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin. 284 pp., in French, index. Paper, € 15.00. Michael Tenzer Michael Tenzer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2016) 60 (2): 371–375. https://doi.org/10.5406/e…
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