The Wellsprings of Music [Paperback]

One / Thoughts and Methods.- I. Preliminaries.- II. The advent of the ethnomusicologist.- III. The ethnomusicologists workshop.- IV. The question of origin.- Two / Early Music.- V. The oldest music: tumbling strains.- VI. The oldest music: one-step melodies.- VII. Conservatism and magic.- VIII. Vocal mannerisms.- IX. Instruments.- X. Rhythm and form III.- Three / On the Way.- Growth, personality, art.- Four / The Fate of Secondal and Tertial Patterns.- The widening nucleus   triadic and fanfare melodies  tonal anatomy and physiology  chains  double, triple, quadruple, quintuple and sextuple thirds  skeletons and infixes  pentatonism and heptatonism  German chorale dialect  Landino third  four-line notation  six-five patterns  triadic octaves.- Five / The Fate of Quartal and Quintal Patterns.- Disjunction and conjunction  quartal chains  chains of fifths  hybrids  modulation  culture chance once more.- Six / Centric Melodies Gregorian tenor melodies  the concept of mes?.- Seven / Polyphony.- Vertical and horizontal  distribution  isochronous conductus  parallels  drones  grounds  alternation and canon  Stimmtausch- heterophony.- Eight / Cross- or Polyrhythm.- Independent accompaniment  hemiola   syncopation  Afro-Indian concordances.- Nine / Professional Music and Musical Systems.- Semi-professionals and professionals  bards  minstrelsy  segregation and discrimination  professional waiters  musical vocabularies  pitch syllables  concomitant method of learning.- Ten / Progress?.- The fading theory of evolution  culture graft  progress  evidences against progress  our gain is our loss.- A note on Bibliography.- Index of Names.