Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Modal Harmony in Andalusian, Eastern European, and Turkish Syncretic Musics

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 21; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/767769

ISSN

2304-3857

Autores

Peter Manuel,

Tópico(s)

Music History and Culture

Resumo

This article examines, in a cursory form, the standardized ways of harmonizing predominantly modal melodies in the contexts of a set of interrelated urban folk and popular musics of the Mediterranean area. Insofar as these musics employ a harmonic-melodic system qualitatively distinct from that of Western common practice, they are worthy of scholarly attention in themselves. This article further seeks to revive the spirit of “Comparative Musicology” and to suggest ways in which cross-cultural comparison of selected musical parameters may reveal new sorts of pan-regional music areas.

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