Description |
ix, 373 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm |
Contents |
Includes index |
Summary |
Revision of 1961 Ph.D. thesis, Glasgow University; p.2-15; Types of Aboriginal music; p.16-22; Aranda social customs (brief description of kinship system, totemism, male initiation); p.23-50; Sacred songs of the Aranda-speaking people, notes & definitions, signs used in transcription, rhythm, catalogue of rhythms for 14 inidividual verses; p.51-296; Musical transcriptions of Aranda & Unmatjera songs with original text & free English translations given separately, comments on vocabulary & ceremonial background, musical construction, rhythm p.297-327; General characteristics - performance, ornamentation, melodic outline, rhythm, harmony, form, pitch, intervals & scale; p.328-346; Comparison with music from Arnhem Land, Central & South Aust. (Alice Springs, Hermannsburg, Eyres Peninsula, Mucumba, Koonibba), Tangane, Pintubi, Yirrkala and Tasmania |
Notes |
"A revision of the original Ph.D. thesis (1961) in the Glasgow University Library" |
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Includes index |
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Thesis - Glasgow University, 1961 |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 367-369 |
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Includes index |
Notes |
Contact the AMC for rights information |
Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Music.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Songs and music.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Central Australia -- Music.
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Aranda (Australian people)
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Aranda (Australian people) -- Music.
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Aranda (Australian people) -- Social life and customs.
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Ethnomusicology.
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Music -- Australia -- History and criticism.
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Folk songs, Aboriginal Australian.
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Music -- Australia -- Central Australia.
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Anmatyerre (Australian people)
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Music -- Australia.
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Music, Primitive
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Songs, Aboriginal Australian.
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Genre/Form |
Music.
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Songs.
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Author |
Libraries Board of South Australia.
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LC no. |
64056465 |
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