Week 3
(1/19-1/21) Motor Control: Vocal and Instrumental PerspectivesTuesday, 19 Jan: Margarita Mazo, guest
Motor Control—General (all read)
Whiting, H. T. A. (John), Stefan Vogt, and Beatrix Vereijken. 1992. "Human Skill and Motor Control: Some Aspects of the Motor Control-Motor Learning Relation," in Approaches to the Study of Motor Control and Learning, edited by J. J. Summers, 81-111. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Read pp. 81-94, relate to Tooby & Cosmides 1992 from last week.
Motor Control—Vocal & Instrumental Music
Harvey, Nigel. 1985. "Vocal Control in Singing," In Musical Structure and Cognition, editors Peter Howell, Ian Cross, and R. West. London: Academic Press.
Baily, John. 1992. "Music Performance, Motor Structure, and Cognitive Models," in European Studies in Ethnomusicology: Historical Developments and Recent Trends, editors Max Peter Baumann, Artur Simon, and Ulrich Wegner, 142-158. Intercultural Music Studies, series editor. Max Peter Baumann, 4. Wilhelmshaven: Florian Noetzel Verlag. (left over from last week)
Motor Control—Vocal Case Study (all read)
Mazo, Margarita. 1994. "Lament Made Visible: A Study of Paramusical Elements in Russian Lament," in Themes and Variations: Writings on Music in Honor of Rulan Chao Pian, edited by Bell Yung, and Lam Joseph S.C., Produced by Editions Orphée, 164-211. Columbus, OH: President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Institute of Chinese Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
More readings on lament
Tolbert, Elizabeth. 1990. "Women Cry With Words: Symbolization of Affect in the Karelian Lament." Yearbook for Traditional Music 22:80-105.
Vaughn, Kathryn. 1990. "Exploring Emotion in Sub-Structural Aspects of Karelian iLament: Application of Time Series Analysis to Digitized Melody." Yearbook for Traditional Music 22:106-122.
Thurs 21 Jan: John Baily, guest
Baily, John. 1988. "Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Study of Music Theory and Musical Cognition." Yearbook for Traditional Music 20:114-124.
___. 1994. "Learning to Perform as a Research Technique in Ethnomusicology," in Lux Oriente: Begegnungen der Kulturen in der Musikforschung, herausgegeben von Klaus Wolfgang Niemöller, Uwe Pätzold, and Chung Kyo-chul, 331-348. Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung, Köln, Germany: Gustav Bosse Verlag.
Doubleday, Veronica, and John Baily. 1995. "Patterns of Musical Development Among Children in Afghanistan," in Children in the Muslim Middle East, edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, 431-444. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
HQ792.M628C45 1995.
Motor Control—Instrumental Case Studies
Baily, John. 1977. "Movement Patterns in Playing the Herati Dutar," In The Anthropology of the Body, editor John Blacking, 275-330. Association of Social Anthropologists Monograph, 15. London: Academic Press.
___. 1985. "Music Structure and Human Movement," In Musical Structure and Cognition, editors Peter Howell, Ian Cross, and R. West. London: Academic Press.
Baily, John, and Peter Driver. 1992. "Spatio-Motor Thinking in Playing Folk Blues Guitar." World of Music 34/3:57-71.
Methodology in Cognitive Ethnomusicology
Baily, John. 1996. "Using Tests of Sound Perception in Fieldwork." Yearbook for Traditional Music 28:147-173.
___. 1997. "Afghan Perceptions of Birdsong." the world of music 39/2:51-59.
Annotation assignments
For each assignment, relate the two articles to each other, and also to other readings if noted.
For Tuesday:
1. Whiting, et al. 1992; Harvey 1985
2. Whiting, et al. 1992; Baily 1992
3. Harvey 1985; Mazo 1994
4. Tolbert 1990 (relate to Mazo 1994), Tolbert 1992 (relate to Tooby & Cosmides 1992)
For Thursday:
5. Baily 1977, 1985 (Baily & Driver 1992 optional; relate to Whiting, et al. 1992)
6. Baily 1996, 1997
7. Baily 1988, 1994