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MUSIC 246: Music & Ideas I: LAB

Resources available for researching world music.

Modes

Grove Music Online: Modes

In the Vassar Libraries' online catalog search for

Keywords and subject headings:

Gregorian chants -- Instruction and study.

Musical intervals and scales.

Musical Notation has many subheadings depending on region and time period. There are also related terms depending on the specific topic.

An important score:

Liber Usualis

Catholic Church. The Liber usualis : with introduction and rubrics in English. Edited by the Benedictines of Solesmes. Tournai, Belgium : Society of St. John the Evangelist : Desclée & Co., 1956.

About:

Vitry, Ermin. Being at ease with the Liber Usualis . St. Louis : Fides Jubilans, 1951.

Microtonality

A few composers to explore:

Cowell, Henry.
Cage, John.

Gann, Kyle.
Johnston, Ben.
Nancarrow, Conlon.

Grove Music Online: Microtone.

In the Vassar Libraries' online catalog search for

Subject headings :

For items about microtonality:

Microtones

Microtonal Music History And Criticism

For items with microtones:

Microtonal Music