Mieczyslaw Kolinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 83776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mieczyslaw Kolinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mieczyslaw |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolinski |
| SIGNATURE | KOLINSKI M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reiteration Quotients: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
A melody contains progressions between either two different or two identical pitches; the former constitute steps, the latter tone reiterations. A comprehensive intercultural investigation of the functions of tone reiterations and of their correlations with other facets of musical and textual organization is beyond the scope of a short paper. Faced with this situation, I decided, as a point of departure, to embark on an objective determination of…
Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre: Seven Canadian Versions of a French Folksong
In 1968, the Folklore Division (now Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies), National Museum of Man, Ottawa, invited me to carry out a research project based on some of its field recordings. As a result, I transcribed and analysed 117 French-Canadian folksongs and song versions. I wish to acknowledge the release of this material by the Museum for publication
The Structure of Music: Diversification versus Constraint
Which are determinants of immense structural diversification of music, revealed through an ever growing amount of research? The most pertinent answer to this question seems to be: enormous variety of known societies, causing an equally wide scope of socio-cultural contexts in which music is being created. This diversification is amplified through process of diachronically changing conditions involving such phenomena as interpenetration of rural a…
Final Reply to Herndon
Had I come across a set of methods of analysis which were as arbitrary and futile as the ones ascribed to me in Marcia Herndon's article Reply to Kolinski: Tarus Omicida (1976), I would have been most anxious to denounce their various pitfalls.1 After stressing in an earlier article the diametric opposition between the model and the model (1974:222), Herndon qualified my methods as using the process model, among other attributes (ibid.:232). Obli…
Herndon's Verdict on Analysis: Tabula Rasa
In her article Analysis: herding of sacred cows? Marcia Herndon stresses need for exposing, discussing, and evaluating various methods of musical analysis, in particular those employed by number of ethnomusicologists (Herndon 1974a). While this is certainly most timely and relevant endeavor, author does not seem to display sufficient of objectivity to deal adequately with delicate subject matter. At least, this is case with her treatment of gener…
Die altesten Melodietypen im ostdeutschen Volksgesang
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Metro-Rhythmic Patterns
t is obvious that application of specifically Western concepts to non-Western musical styles will result in a more or less distorted assessment of the musics involved. In the case of metro-rhythmic patterns the situation becomes all the more disturbing since, as we shall see, even with regard to our own music certain aspects of the current views on the nature of metrorhythmic structure are quite controversial. Therefore, essential precondition fo…
"How about "Multisonance
An Apache Rabbit Dance Song Cycle as Sung by the Iroquois
Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians
Barbara Allen: Tonal versus Melodic Structure, Part II
ronson's classification of tonal structures, used in his monumental work The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, represents a consistent application of the principle of gapped scales. He demonstrates his system by means of a diagram termed mode-star (Bronson 1962:xi-xiii). Each of the seven star-points signifies a heptatonic mode. Although the Ionian (or major) is placed on top, the chain actually does not start with the Ionian but with the L…
Studies in Ethnomusicology. Volume II
Selected Reports
Barbara Allen: Tonal versus Melodic Structure, Part I
Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology
Music has been created by man and constitutes an essential facet of his manifestations; therefore, it cannot be properly investigated if approached as an isolated phenomenon. While it is to be welcomed that, in principle, this concept has been more and more widely recognized, its one-sided application tends to confuse rather than to clarify real issue. study of vital part that plays in life of many societies is a fascinating and rewarding objecti…
Studies in Ethnomusicology
Grundlagen der antiken und orientalischen Musikkultur
The General Direction of Melodic Movement
n a previous article (Kolinski 1957:3-4) I challenged Hornbostel's contention that there is a basic opposition between Western and non-Western music with regard to the general direction of melodic movement. In order to test this thesis I devised a method which may be summarized as follows: The general direction of melodic movement of a body of music can be determined by means of level formulae which include the average values of the initial and f…
Transcription II
The Wellsprings of Music: A Review-Essay
Studies in Ethnomusicology, Vol. I, 1961
Consonance and Dissonance
Discussing the characteristic features of the music of Laos, HumbertLaverg e (1934:18) emphasizes the preference for dissonant intervals and chords. By this the author obviously means tone combinations that in conventional Western harmony are considered dissonant. Nothing would be gained by merely criticizing such an inadequate application of Western concepts on Oriental music. What really matters is the question whether it is possible to approac…
Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano, by Mieczyslaw Kolinski
Notes on Christensen's Article: Inner Tempo and Melodic Tempo
Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Metro-Rhythmic Patterns
t is obvious that application of specifically Western concepts to non-Western musical styles will result in a more or less distorted assessment of the musics involved. In the case of metro-rhythmic patterns the situation becomes all the more disturbing since, as we shall see, even with regard to our own music certain aspects of the current views on the nature of metrorhythmic structure are quite controversial. Therefore, essential precondition fo…
Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology
Music has been created by man and constitutes an essential facet of his manifestations; therefore, it cannot be properly investigated if approached as an isolated phenomenon. While it is to be welcomed that, in principle, this concept has been more and more widely recognized, its one-sided application tends to confuse rather than to clarify real issue. study of vital part that plays in life of many societies is a fascinating and rewarding objecti…
Ethnomusicology, Its Problems and Methods
tive musicology, for the latter term has often been criticized on the ground that our science does not compare any more than other sciences do. As a matter of fact, a great deal of research work accomplished in this field is descriptive rather than comparative; thus the new name seems justified. Nevertheless, we should keep in mind that descriptive ethnomusicological studies constitute but a preliminary work which paves the way for a fruitful com…
Studies in Ethnomusicology
The Structure of Music: Diversification versus Constraint
Which are determinants of immense structural diversification of music, revealed through an ever growing amount of research? The most pertinent answer to this question seems to be: enormous variety of known societies, causing an equally wide scope of socio-cultural contexts in which music is being created. This diversification is amplified through process of diachronically changing conditions involving such phenomena as interpenetration of rural a…
The Evaluation of Tempo
empo constitutes, of course, an essential element of musii cal expression. Therefore, a thorough examination of its characteristic features is required when musical styles are being described or compared. Thus far, measurements of tempo have been based exclusively on metronomic values. This method seems, at first sight, perfectly adequate since metronomic indications appear to define the tempo of a piece of music precisely. In reality, however, a…
Reiteration Quotients: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
A melody contains progressions between either two different or two identical pitches; the former constitute steps, the latter tone reiterations. A comprehensive intercultural investigation of the functions of tone reiterations and of their correlations with other facets of musical and textual organization is beyond the scope of a short paper. Faced with this situation, I decided, as a point of departure, to embark on an objective determination of…
Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians
The General Direction of Melodic Movement
n a previous article (Kolinski 1957:3-4) I challenged Hornbostel's contention that there is a basic opposition between Western and non-Western music with regard to the general direction of melodic movement. In order to test this thesis I devised a method which may be summarized as follows: The general direction of melodic movement of a body of music can be determined by means of level formulae which include the average values of the initial and f…
Transcription II
Consonance and Dissonance
Discussing the characteristic features of the music of Laos, HumbertLaverg e (1934:18) emphasizes the preference for dissonant intervals and chords. By this the author obviously means tone combinations that in conventional Western harmony are considered dissonant. Nothing would be gained by merely criticizing such an inadequate application of Western concepts on Oriental music. What really matters is the question whether it is possible to approac…
Konsonanz als Grundlage einer neuen Akkordlehre
Studia Memoriae Belae Bartok Sacra
Ethnomusicology, Its Problems and Methods
tive musicology, for the latter term has often been criticized on the ground that our science does not compare any more than other sciences do. As a matter of fact, a great deal of research work accomplished in this field is descriptive rather than comparative; thus the new name seems justified. Nevertheless, we should keep in mind that descriptive ethnomusicological studies constitute but a preliminary work which paves the way for a fruitful com…
The Evaluation of Tempo
empo constitutes, of course, an essential element of musii cal expression. Therefore, a thorough examination of its characteristic features is required when musical styles are being described or compared. Thus far, measurements of tempo have been based exclusively on metronomic values. This method seems, at first sight, perfectly adequate since metronomic indications appear to define the tempo of a piece of music precisely. In reality, however, a…
Dahomey Suite for Oboe and Piano, by Mieczyslaw Kolinski
Notes on Christensen's Article: Inner Tempo and Melodic Tempo
Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
Die Musik der Chibcha und ihrer heutigen Nachkommen. Ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte Sudamerikas
Studies in Ethnomusicology, Vol. I, 1961
Consonance and Dissonance
Discussing the characteristic features of the music of Laos, HumbertLaverg e (1934:18) emphasizes the preference for dissonant intervals and chords. By this the author obviously means tone combinations that in conventional Western harmony are considered dissonant. Nothing would be gained by merely criticizing such an inadequate application of Western concepts on Oriental music. What really matters is the question whether it is possible to approac…
The Wellsprings of Music: A Review-Essay
Transcription II
Grundlagen der antiken und orientalischen Musikkultur
The General Direction of Melodic Movement
n a previous article (Kolinski 1957:3-4) I challenged Hornbostel's contention that there is a basic opposition between Western and non-Western music with regard to the general direction of melodic movement. In order to test this thesis I devised a method which may be summarized as follows: The general direction of melodic movement of a body of music can be determined by means of level formulae which include the average values of the initial and f…
Studies in Ethnomusicology
Recent Trends in Ethnomusicology
Music has been created by man and constitutes an essential facet of his manifestations; therefore, it cannot be properly investigated if approached as an isolated phenomenon. While it is to be welcomed that, in principle, this concept has been more and more widely recognized, its one-sided application tends to confuse rather than to clarify real issue. study of vital part that plays in life of many societies is a fascinating and rewarding objecti…
Studies in Ethnomusicology. Volume II
Selected Reports
Barbara Allen: Tonal versus Melodic Structure, Part I
Barbara Allen: Tonal versus Melodic Structure, Part II
ronson's classification of tonal structures, used in his monumental work The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, represents a consistent application of the principle of gapped scales. He demonstrates his system by means of a diagram termed mode-star (Bronson 1962:xi-xiii). Each of the seven star-points signifies a heptatonic mode. Although the Ionian (or major) is placed on top, the chain actually does not start with the Ionian but with the L…
Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians
An Apache Rabbit Dance Song Cycle as Sung by the Iroquois
Die altesten Melodietypen im ostdeutschen Volksgesang
A Cross-Cultural Approach to Metro-Rhythmic Patterns
t is obvious that application of specifically Western concepts to non-Western musical styles will result in a more or less distorted assessment of the musics involved. In the case of metro-rhythmic patterns the situation becomes all the more disturbing since, as we shall see, even with regard to our own music certain aspects of the current views on the nature of metrorhythmic structure are quite controversial. Therefore, essential precondition fo…
"How about "Multisonance
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