- Paperback: 559 pages
- Publisher: Da Capo Press (March 21, 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0306807491
- ISBN-13: 978-0306807497
This extraordinary book explores the richness of sound, instruments, and
music from the world's astonishing variety of cultural and musical
traditions. David Reck is one of the few musical scholars to realize
that music can be broken down into a few basic ideas, and to show how
those ideas manifest themselves in disparate cultures. Here he discusses
the similarities and differences between the Western oboe and the
Indian shehnai, between our large orchestras and Bali's gamelans, between a Mozart symphony, a Japanese noh
drama, and a Tibetan chant.Profusely illustrated with photographs,
drawings, maps, diagrams, and even instructions on how to make one's own
instruments, Music of the Whole Earth helps to narrow the gaps
between audience and performer and between our own musical culture and
that of other people. For anyone who has ever been puzzled by the
unfamiliar strains of non-Western music, Music of the Whole Earth is the ideal answer--an exciting and accessible companion to the sounds of the world.
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