Scales in Lithuanian traditional music: acoustics, cognition, and contexts
Rytis Ambrazevičius, Robertas Budrys, Irena Višnevska · 2015
Preface -- Introduction: The issue of musical scales; A brief overview of Lithuanian traditional music -- Inquiry method refinement: Precision of pitch perception and detection; Intrasonic pitch change; Pitch measurement techniques; Music scale evaluation; Eliminating gradual transposition -- Musical scales in the vocal tradition: Equitonics vs diatonics; Gradual scale dynamics in vocal monophony; Local scale dynamics in vocal monophony; Dissonance and roughness in sutartinės; Scales in vocal homophony; Diachronic aspect -- Musical scales in the instrumental tradition: Wind instrument scales; String instrument scales -- Musical scales among neighboring traditions: Scales in the neighboring vocal traditions; Scales in traditional Polish fiddle and ligawka music -- Tonal hierarchy cognitive phenomena: Overview of studies on tonal hierarchies; Tonal hierarchies in traditional music -- Postlude -- Music sources -- References -- Author index -- Santrauka -- About the authors