Aboriginal music making : a study of Central Australian music / by Catherine J. Ellis
- Bib ID:
- 767627
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ellis, Catherine J. (Catherine Joan), 1935-1996
- Description:
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- Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964
- ix, 373 p. : ill., music ; 28 cm.
- Summary:
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Revision of 1961 Ph.D. thesis, Glasgow University; p.2-15; Types of Aboriginal music; p.16-22; Aranda social customs (brief description of kinship system, totemism, male initiation); p.23-50; Sacred songs of the Aranda-speaking people, notes & definitions, signs used in transcription, rhythm, catalogue of rhythms for 14 inidividual verses; p.51-296; Musical transcriptions of Aranda & Unmatjera songs with original text & free English translations given separately, comments on vocabulary & ceremonial background, musical construction, rhythm p.297-327; General characteristics - performance, ornamentation, melodic outline, rhythm, harmony, form, pitch, intervals & scale; p.328-346; Comparison with music from Arnhem Land, Central & South Aust. (Alice Springs, Hermannsburg, Eyres Peninsula, Mucumba, Koonibba), Tangane, Pintubi, Yirrkala and Tasmania.
- Notes:
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- "A revision of the original Ph.D. thesis (1961) in the Glasgow University Library".
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p.367-369.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Music
- Music -- Australia, Central
- Pintupi people (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Language - Vocabulary
- Tanganekald language (S11) (SA SI54-14)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr people (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Pintupi language (C10) (NT SF52-11)
- Arrernte / Aranda language (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr language (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Systems
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Tanganekald people (S11) (SA SI54-14)
- Religion - Totemism
- Music - Vocal
- Northern Territory Top End (NT)
- Yirrkala (East Arnhem Land SD53-04)
- Koonibba (West SA SH53-09)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Ntaria / Hermannsburg (South Central NT SF53-13)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- South Australia - Central Australia (SA SG52, SG53)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Libraries Board of South Australia
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1964
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