source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:34:36 -0800 Subject: South Indian Music Dissertations/Notation in Turkey From: Daniel Wolf <106232.3266@compuserve.com> Haverstick wondered about dissertations by Indian Musicians. I know of Wesleyan Dissertations (all available through Interlibrary loan or University Microfilms) in Karnatic Music by Tanjore Viswanathan (on Raga Alapana), L. Shankar, and K.S. Subramanian, all excellent musicians. There are also very interesting dissertations by American musicians who are/were professional performers of Karnatic music including those by the late Jon Higgins (on Barata Natyam) and David Reck. Johnny Reinhard mentions the use of notation in Turkey. Notational skills are indeed an element of prestige among musicians in Turkey, and the country in full of little music stores where after hours instruction is offered chiefly in music notation, but I think that it would be wrong to attribute too great an emphasis to the use of notation. (It is strikingly similar to the use of notation by Pop musicians in the States - something that may be useful, is not strictly necessary, but does earn respect among other musicians). In the large number of Turkish music concerts I have heard - both classical and folk - I have never seen written music notation on stage. In any case, notation would be of little use for the formulaic-improvised Taksim. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 13:59 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03164; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:01:36 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03138 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id FAA15699; Thu, 26 Dec 1996 05:01:33 -0800 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 05:01:33 -0800 Message-Id: <199612261253.AA07219@felix.dircon.co.uk> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu