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Title The Orient in music : music of the Orient / edited by Małgorzata Grajter.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, music
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Essays resulting from an International Conference titled "OM: Oriental in Music - Music of the Orient" held at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź, Poland, March 2016.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Representations of the Orient in western music : methods of music analysis in theory and practice / Renata Skupin -- Oriental music as a part of the European collective consciousness / David Kozel -- Somata and Pneumata : on the relationship between Daseia and Byzantine musical notation / Ewa Bielińska-Galas -- Zaryab : the cultural meeting of East and West / Bijan Zelli -- French music and the East : colonising the sound of an empire / Edward Campbell -- Orient in international art music : musical orientalism and Beethoven's orientation / Feza Tansuğ -- Source and imagination of the Orient in Karol Szymanowski's opera "King Roger" op. 46 / Maki Shigekawa -- Poles and the Turks in Franz Doppler's opera Wanda (1850) / Ryszard Daniel Golianek -- "Three Romanian dances" by Theodor Rogalski : an issue of identity / Bianca Ţiplea Temeș -- Symbolism of tantra in Andrzej Panufnik's Triangles for flutes and cellos (1972) / Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska -- Dialogue between the Orient and the West : its manifestations in Latvian choral music of the 21st Century / Baiba Jaunslaviete -- Variations on a theme : the appropriation of the Orient in popular music / Maciej Rodkiewicz -- Concepts of Rasa and Dosha and the stage archetypes of women in the classical Indian dance of Odissi / Beata Stróżyńska -- Interpreting some transformational aspects of pentatonicism and post-tonal Chinese music / Man-Ching Donald Yu.
Summary ""OM"", a fundamental meditation sound present in the cultures of Buddhism, is a syllable full of philosophical and transcendental meanings. The category of the Orient, as contrasted, antithetical and complementary to the Occident (West) and its culture, appears to be one of the most interesting and long-lasting issues discussed in the humanities. European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations in science, art, fashion and beliefs. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, has always been well suited for transitions and inspirations. The relatio.
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Subject Music -- Orient.
Music.
Draper.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Grajter, Małgorzata, editor.
OM: Oriental in Music - Music of the Orient (Conference) (2016 : Łódź, Poland)
Other Form: Print version: Orient in music. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1527502953 (OCoLC)1005334279
ISBN 9781527502956 (electronic book)
1527502953 (electronic book)
1527510263
9781527510265
1527502953