On Chinese Scales and National Modes

Lu-Ting, Ho; Kuo-Huang, Han

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“… 49 Traditional Chinese music theory describes the “old” yanyue heptatonic scale C-D-E-F#-G-A (Lu-Ting and Kuo-huang, 1982 ) in second century BC (Chou, 1976 ) which indicates that despite the decision of earlier theorists and political authorities to commit to the pentatonic order, heptatonic music remained in use. …”

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Evolution of tonal organization in music mirrors symbolic representation of perceptual reality. Part-1: Prehistoric

Nikolsky¹

2015

Front. Psychol.

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This paper reveals the way in which musical pitch works as a peculiar form of cognition that reflects upon the organization of the surrounding world as perceived by majority of music users within a socio-cultural formation. The evidence from music theory, ethnography, archeology, organology, anthropology, psychoacoustics, and evolutionary biology is plotted against experimental evidence. Much of the methodology for this investigation comes from studies conducted within the territory of the former USSR. To date, this methodology has remained solely confined to Russian speaking scholars. A brief overview of pitch-set theory demonstrates the need to distinguish between vertical and horizontal harmony, laying out the framework for virtual music space that operates according to the perceptual laws of tonal gravity. Brought to life by bifurcation of music and speech, tonal gravity passed through eleven discrete stages of development until the onset of tonality in the seventeenth century. Each stage presents its own method of integration of separate musical tones into an auditory-cognitive unity. The theory of “melodic intonation” is set forth as a counterpart to harmonic theory of chords. Notions of tonality, modality, key, diatonicity, chromaticism, alteration, and modulation are defined in terms of their perception, and categorized according to the way in which they have developed historically. Tonal organization in music, and perspective organization in fine arts are explained as products of the same underlying mental process. Music seems to act as a unique medium of symbolic representation of reality through the concept of pitch. Tonal organization of pitch reflects the culture of thinking, adopted as a standard within a community of music users. Tonal organization might be a naturally formed system of optimizing individual perception of reality within a social group and its immediate environment, setting conventional standards of intellectual and emotional intelligence.

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2015

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“…The most significant moment for the discovery of the Romanian heritage was probably the appearance of several extensive studies between 1927 and 1931 by well-known art historians or researchers of Transylvanian heritage: Coriolan Petreanu (1893-1945), Virgil Vătăşianu (1902, Atanasie Popa (1896-1982), Silviu Dragomir (1888-1962. 41 The first two were students of Josef Strzygowsky, professor of art history in Vienna, from whom they took inspiration in studying and promoting both wooden architecture and the artistic heritage considered "minor" until that time.…”

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“…Western musical tradition has commonly equated pentatonic scales with "Chinese," "exotic," and "oriental" scales [49,50]. Almost all Southeast Asian nations, including China, Japan,…”

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Translating the Lampung Oral Literature into Music for Educational Purpose: A Case Study of Pisaan on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra

Ariyani

Hidayatullah

Putrawan

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Education Research International

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A large body of data concerning oral literature around the globe have been reported. Moreover, in Indonesia, a country with multilingual and multicultural contexts, the study of oral literature has become an important aspect of investigation. One of the oral pieces of literature that exists in Indonesia is Pisaan, an oral tradition that can be found in Lampung, a province located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. Although a considerable amount of oral literature research has been conducted in the Indonesian context; however, to our best knowledge, little research has been paid to Pisaan oral literature, which plays an essential role in the Lampung community. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the oral literature by translating and transforming the Pisaan oral literature into lyrics and musical elements to educate future generations. This study adopted a qualitative approach using several instruments, i.e., semistructured interviews and recording tools, for data collection. A total of four women who were cultural activists in the age range of 37–76 years of age took part in the current study. The collected data were analyzed using a content analysis and a melody structure analysis. The results show that Pisaan has simple syllabification, which dominantly consists of consonant–vowel (CV) and consonant–vowel–consonant (CVC). The rhythm of Pisaan is categorized into syllabic time syllables, emphasizing the stress word based on its syllables. From a musical perspective, the Pisaan oral literature has been successfully translated and written into musical notation with the aim of preservation, which, as far as we are aware, has never before been done. However, we realize that the Western music notation in this study only serves as the initial stage of analysis and does not aim to replace the distinctive native-cultural values of Pisaan, offering an alternative instructional path for improving Lampung oral literature teaching methods and a valuable strategy to diversify undergraduate courses through comparable interdisciplinary inquiries. Therefore, limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

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On Chinese Scales and National Modes

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