Elasticity and melodic reformulations in music by oral transmission in Western Mediterranean area: music for flaüta and drum in Eivissa and Formentera Islands

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  • Jaume Escandell i Guasch Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/anuariomusical.2010.65.119

Keywords:

Eivissa and Formentera, flaüta and drum, Credo and Alçar Déu, oral transmission, structure, elasticity, melodic reformulations

Abstract


The article focuses on instrumental music of oral transmission in the islands of Eivissa and Formentera. In particular, are explained two aspects of the structural behaviour detected in liturgical repertoire for the set of flaüta and drum. The first one of these aspects consists of the development of a musical discourse from the constant reformulation of two melodic models clearly delimited by the used degrees –in relation to all the gamma of sounds that the instrument produces– and for the ending notes. The second one refers to the elasticity that characterizes the studied pieces, which do not have a prefixed extension, but have mechanisms based on a variable times repetition of determinate segments. This fact enables more widespread or more reduced versions of the same pieces

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Published

2010-12-30

How to Cite

Escandell i Guasch, J. (2010). Elasticity and melodic reformulations in music by oral transmission in Western Mediterranean area: music for flaüta and drum in Eivissa and Formentera Islands. Anuario Musical, (65), 225–250. https://doi.org/10.3989/anuariomusical.2010.65.119

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