Ethnomusicologists researching towns they live in: Theoretical and methodological queries for a renewed discipline by Araužo Samuel

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THE CONTRIBUTION OF NICE FRACILE TO THE STUDY OF THE MUSICAL FOLKLORE OF VOJVODINA by Vesna IVKOV

“…The immediate motive to produce this study is the marking of significant anniversaries in the field of ethnomusicology, both in the personal life of famous ethnomusicologist Nice Fracile and in the activities of the Academy of Arts of the University of Novi Sad. …”
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The Art of Ganga Singing: Cultural Tradition of the Dinaric Area by Joško Ćaleta

“…The author of the proposed book, the Sarajevan ethnomusicologist Ankica Petrović, remains the greatest proponent of the ganga music phenomenon in scholarly circles outside former Yugoslavia. …”
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“But what if they call the police?” Applied Ethnomusicology and Urban Activism in the United States by Maureen Loughran

“…A theory of method for activist centered work which connects academia with local, grassroots communities is discussed as well as the challenges of positioning oneself as an applied ethnomusicologist in the field.…”
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Identities of Svanibor Pettan by Ursula Hemetek

“…In our longstanding friendship I have witnessed some of Svanibor’s: ethnically Slovenian as well as Croatian, ethnomusicologist, engaged activist, ICTM official, white male, caring son, loving husband and loyal friend. …”
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A Short Story about a Great Man: by Jasmina Talam

“…The first Bosnian ethnomusicologist, Friar Branko Marić, began to research the traditional folk music of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1920s and presented the results of his research in the doctoral dissertation Volkmusik Bosnien und der Herzegovina (1936). …”
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BÉLA BARTÓK: “CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA”. ELEMENTS OF TURKISH FOLKLORE IN THE SOURCES OF A MASTERPIECE by Boglárka SZAKÁCS

“…The influence of the Hungarian, Slovakian, Romanian and Serbian folk music is evident in this work of Bartók, but there is limited information available about the traces of the last collecting tour of the composer and ethnomusicologist in 1936 to Anatolia, Turkey. Beside enumerating different sources of inspiration for this composition, present article aims to identify the influence of the Turkish Folk Music Collection in Béla Bartók’s Concerto. …”
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Audiovisual media in public ethnomusicology and education: A Sardinian experience by Lutzu Marco

“…My aim is to discuss the role played by ethnomusicologist in conceiving new strategies for the visual representation of the music of oral tradition in different productive contexts and audiovisual outputs.…”
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SÁNDOR VERESS’S THRENOS IN THE LIGHT OF ‘TRADITION’ AND ‘RENEWAL’ by Miklós FEKETE

“…Being a threnody, Veress inserts two folk-like funeral laments, which are the composer’s melodic inventions, in the style of folk music. Veress, the ethnomusicologist and composer presents the bartókian principle of how to capture the ethos of folk music in its structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm, and how to express it in such a modern and innovative way, that a completely new quality is born from it.…”
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Amar, Verbo Intransitivo – Um romance musical de Mário de Andrade by Simone Maria Ruthner, Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez

“…This essay seeks to demonstrate how the poet, writer, composer and ethnomusicologist used music for various purposes: to report landscapes in literature; to design the plot, or still to maximize the aesthetic effect of the text. …”
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Ethnomusicology: Issues and Possibilities by Majid Hamdoon Al Harthy

“…Thus, the modern ethnomusicologist always seeks to associate him/herself to the musics of the «other» not only for the sake of understanding musical elements and structures, but also in order to gain a deeper understanding of the social and cultural aspects of the communities producing the music.…”
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La langue bretonne dans la Mission de folklore musical de Basse-Bretagne de 1939 by Gilles Goyat

“…The mission comprised a linguist, François Falc’hun (1909-1991), and an ethnomusicologist, Claudie Marcel-Dubois (1913-1989), equipped with what would have been considered at the time high-performance audiovisual equipment, namely a camera, a sound recorder and a moving images recorder. …”
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE FOLK REPERTOIRE FOR VIOLIN OF THE BUCOVENIAN FIDDLER A. BIDIREL by SLABARI NICOLAE, COTOS MIHAI

“…We can mention the Ethnography and Folklore Magazine, in which is published an article by the ethnomusicologist Tiberiu Alexandru, and a number of unpublished manuscripts of Alexander Voevidca, but also, a series of sound documents which are in the heritage I.C.E.D. under the name of the catalog Fg. 4234-4242, recorded by Constantin Brăiloiu in an expedition carried out in the village Capul-Codrului, former district Câmpulung, on September 11, 1934.…”
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Holden Village <i>Vespers ’23</i>: (Re)Sounding a Transforming Community by Maren Haynes Marchesini

“…Centering methodologies of participant-observation and ethnographic interview, I engage the Holden community as a liturgical musician and ethnomusicologist. The resulting paper shows how this unique cohort navigates identity, belonging, tradition, and change through the rich and contested sites of music and liturgy.…”
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Rhythm dances in Bela Bartok : An analysis of Mirkokosmos No. 2 and No. 6, Volume 6 for piano / Nurul Nadiah Jamaluddin by Jamaluddin, Nurul Nadiah

“…Ujji-Hilliard (2004) noted that "during the 1930's, the 50-year-old Bartok was already a well known and successful composer, pianist, and most of all, a world renowned ethnomusicologist." (p.1) Sadie and Grove (1980) noted that "the greatest composer of his country, he was responsible, with his friend Kodaly, for the awakening of serious interest in Hungarian folk music. …”
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The birth of the Malaysian society for music in medicine: a concerted move to promote the use of music for therapeutic purposes by Yin, Sharon Zi Chong, Foo, I-Wei, Lai, James Hock Yeow, Law, Geraldine Ming Ming, Stanslas, Johnson

“…Malaysia is a multi-cultural society and the resulting myriad forms of music played in the nation are an ethnomusicologist’s haven. A simple cross-sample taken across the different kinds of music available reflects a diverse range reflective of much of the Asian region as a whole. …”
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Pohľad muzikológa Jozefa Kresánka na hudbu 20. storočia by Ľubomír Chalupka

“…Kresánek related the genesis of music as an ordered structure, its development from the point of view of historical determinants, regional specificities, social functions, and psychological effect to the research of European composed music although he, as an ethnomusicologist, also noticed peculiarities of the traditional folk music. …”
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Balinese Gamelan Tuning: The Toth Archives by Wayne Vitale, William Sethares

“…American ethnomusicologist Andrew Toth spent decades in Bali, studying and documenting music of various styles. …”
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From Nowhere to Somewhere by Heather Strohschein, Margaret Smith, Linda Yates

“…The other colleague is an amateur musician, participant advisor for one of her music groups, and a representative of people with additional support needs. I am an ethnomusicologist who specializes in Javanese and Balinese gamelan outside of Indonesia particularly as they pertain to community music making. …”
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Melodic variations : toward cross-cultural transformation by Huang, Cheng-Zhi Anna

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