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Deep and Surface Structures in Venda Music

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

John Blacking
John Blacking*
Affiliation:
the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Extract

The central issue in musical theory is the problem of description. Neither musicologists nor ethnomusicologists have yet devised a system of analysis which is sufficiently powerful to explain what we can know intuitively as a result of experience in culture, namely, the essential differences between the music of Haydn and Mozart, or of the Flathead and the Sioux Indians.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 3 , 1971 , pp. 91 - 108
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Copyright © 1972 By the International Folk Music Council 

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