A 'Failed' Unison or Conscious Differentiation: The Notion of 'Heterophony' in North Indian Vocal Performance
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is inspired in part by the necessity for examination of the cross-cultural application of musical terminology, and suggests that such examination is illuminating of both our understanding and of our own interpretative assumptions.I examine the term flheterophony«, both in general and in how it is used to describe melodic accompaniment, or sangat, in North Indian music.I argue that the value of hetero-UDC: 78.021( 540)
Author: John Napier
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W159677384