No. 1012: EXPLAINING MUSIC AND ENTROPY
Today, thoughts on trying to explain entropy, music, and football. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. This is fun.
I have a recommendation for a great gift idea for passover, the four questions translations book. 300 ways to ask the 4 questions will keep you entralled for years. Passover, Pesach, it doesn't matter what you call it. This book about the 4 questions translations - 300 ways of doing them - will have you howling and entertained and educated for years.
My wife and I are enjoying supper in a restaurant, surrounded by tanks of brilliant, colorful fish. I savor the food and I savor the sight. I know neither the recipe for the sauce nor the genus of the fish. My knowledge is purely sensate.
There is a remarkable site for rounds singing and CDs related to rounds. Do look into this great information resource. You will be able to get the book Rounds Galore from here - it's a good site because it has a lot of other information related to singing rounds.
Links related to Ethnomusicology and World Music
The links underneath here are limited only to those which we have seen ourselves.
In reality, there are numerous more related sites.
We hope that you are able to find the information from the below sites useful
Organizations, Institutions, Archives, Research Centers
National Museum of Japanese History
The National Museum of Ethnology
Includes descriptions and photographs of music and musical instruments.
Gakkigaku Shiryokan (Collection for Organology), Kunitachi College of Music
The International House of Japan
The Japan Foundation
IAML Japanese Branch
The Library of Congress
Tonal Structure in Burmese Music as Exemplified in the Piano Music of U Ko Ko
An essay by Robert Garfias.
Stilling Time: Traditional Musics of Vietnam
href="http://www.city.hamamatsu.shizuoka.jp/gakki/english/index.html">Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
A critique CD by Clifford Sloane.
Indian Desert Songs
Songs of India on the Rutgers University Sounds Page. Includes a sound archives.
Indian Music Home Page Japan
Explanations, etc., of the classical music of North India.
West Asia & Maghreb
Arab Music Home Page
Society for EthnomusicologyAfrican Music Archive, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Mainz Alan Lomax Collection American Folklife Center Home Page Lib. of Congress Archives & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology American Institute of Indian Studies Music examples can be heard. An abundance of links to Arabic and Turkish music-related sites.
Arabic Classical Music
Europe
The Bagpipe Web
Ballad and gender: Reconsidering narrative singing in Northern Italy
An essay by Tullia Magrini.
Irish Music Magazine
Welcome to the Ethnomusicology Research Digest (ERD) . This page is currently in the early stages of reconstruction. Though no changes have yet been made the original ERD page, a new home page is now available. The new page is a little rough around the edges. Admittedly there are errors and gaps of information. However, I have still opted to post it so that it would be available for review by members of the ETHMUS-L list.Archives of African American Music & Culture Overview The Burns Library Irish Music Archives was founded by the Burns Music Department, the Irish Studies Program, and the John J. Burns Library, in collaboration with visiting ethnomusicology professor Dr. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. Inspired by the work of the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin, the Irish Music Archives of the John J. Burns Library began to preserve and promote Irish traditional music in America in 1990. The Irish Music Center works well with Séamus Connolly and the Center for Irish Programs to fulfill the mission of the Irish Music Archives, documenting the cultural contributions of Irish and Scottish traditional musicians in America. For a fuller description, please see Earle Hitchner's article, "The Reel Deal," in the fall 2004 Boston College Magazine.