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set up according to the various systems of melody and rhythm (dance pattern).
Emotions and a sense of meaning are created by the way these expectations are
teased out and finally satisfied.”
(1956:826)
Meeriam defines the history of ethnomusicology as:
“In the history of ethnomusicology we have given undue importance and stress to
musical sounds as things in them. That is, we have taken the sounds produced
by any particular group of people as a phenomenon made up of inter-related
parts, which behave according to certain principles and regularities inherent in
them. We have looked at musical sound as a structural system i.e. in static
synchronous terms, and we tended to make our analysis with out reference to
the human behavior out of which the sound system arises.”
(1936:211)
According to Burckhardt Qureshi:
“Ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture, it is basic assumption is that is
a system of sound communication with a culturally determined meaning. In order
to understand the both forms and the meaning of any musical tradition
ethnomusicologists propose to study it from to perspective. One is the sound
system itself; the other is socio cultural context of music.”
(1998:47)
Spencer define the relation of music dance and participants as:
“Through music and dance, participants endow certain events with powerful
affects. Such emotions can mobilize a group to action or keep them from acting,
can create solidarity or dissension”
(1985. P: 697)
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