Tradition and synthesis
Subtitle: multiple modernities for composer-performers
By: edited by Dusan Bogdanovic and Xavier Bouvier
Contributors: Haute école de musique (Geneva, Switzerland); Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale
Publisher: Doberman-Yppan
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lévis (Québec) Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9782895039754
Subjects: Music; Composition (Music); World music
Notes: Edited by Dusan Bogdanovic and Xavier Bouvier. The essays in this book explore the theory of multiple modernities around the globe as it relates to music. The articles explore the relationship of tradition and synthesis in many different kinds of music. With a preface by Philippe Dinkel, introduction, and index. Music examples.

"This 'multiple book' of essays on multiple modernities is one outcome of an ambitious research project lead at the Haute école de musique de Genève with the support of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland..."--Page 4.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Philippe Dinkel -- Contributors -- Introduction / -- Dusan Bogdanovic; title: Multiple modernities: a personal vision  -- Dusan Bogdanovic; title: Homo musicus: are humans biologically predisposed to be musical?  -- Ellen Dissanayake; title: Intercultural musical hermeneutics and interaction practices  -- Xavier Bouvier; title: Tradition and synthesis  -- Golfam Khayam; title: In search of Maurice Ohana's vision (An analysis of Ohana's Tiento)  -- Dusan Bogdanovic; title: One fusion among many: merging Bali, India, and the West through modernism  -- Michael Tenzer; title: The other standards (Deconstructing-reconstructing classical masterpieces)  -- Bruce Arnold; title: Propositional music of many nows  -- David Rosenboom; title: "A path to finding yourself" interview with Feliu Gasull -- Carmen Garcia Alvarez.