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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779418603321

Autore

Nettl Bruno <1930->

Titolo

Becoming an ethnomusicologist [[electronic resource] ] : a miscellany of influences / / Bruno Nettl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD ; ; Oxford, : Scarecrow Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-38778-0

0-8108-8698-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities

Disciplina

780.89

Soggetti

Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter One: My Mother, the Pianist; The Schumann Fantasie; Mozart's D-Minor Concerto, No. 20; Victor Ullmann's Sonatas; Novák's Sonata Eroica; Bach's "Capriccio"; Smetana's "Chicken"; Chapter Two: George Herzog and the Study of Native American Music; A Comparative Musicologist; The Ecology of Herzog's Researches; The Major Articles; Conclusion; Chapter Three: Studying Anthropology at Indiana University, 1949 to 1953; Inspired by Statistics and Maps; He Was a Polymath, but He Couldn't Teach ApesHow to Talk

A Teacher Too Few of Today's StudentsWould RecognizeThe Dean and Occasional Folksinger; Chapter Four: Teachers in the Field; You Can't Be a Member of This Nation WithoutKnowing Its Songs; To Sing the Right Song; The Nightingale Does Not Repeat Itself; The Legend Lives On; Conclusion; Chapter Five: Remembering Paul Nettl-Free Associations; A Little Night Music, or the Family Composer; The Magic Flute; Kertzinger's Branle; The Battle of Kosovo; "Auf dem Pripetschek"; The "Catalog Aria"; From Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3-"Air,"for Strings and the Gavotte; Haydn's Anthem for the Emperor

"Sleepers, Awake!"Die schöne Müllerin; "The Academic Festival Overture"; "The Moldau," and a Song About a Fox; The Mendelssohn Violin Concerto; Gamelan Angklung; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; "Das Lied von der Erde"; "The Third Rasoumovsky Quartet"; The



Reformation Symphony; The Spring Sonata; Mozart's "Violet"; Citations; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Becoming an Ethnomusicologist centers on the life and education of the author, Bruno Nettl, a well-known ethnomusicologist.