AMIIR

Toward a Situated Analysis of Musical Improvisation: A Case Study of South Indian Ritual Music

Coordinatore	SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON    more  Organization address address: THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE city: LONDON postcode: WC1H OXG contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tony Cognome: Doherty Email: send email Telefono: +44 02078984005
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	231˙283 €
EC contributo	231˙283 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-10-01   -   2015-09-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON  Organization address address: THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE city: LONDON postcode: WC1H OXG contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tony Cognome: Doherty Email: send email Telefono: +44 02078984005	UK (LONDON)	coordinator	231˙283.20

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The present project focuses on the analysis of musical improvisation in South Indian ritual art-music, i.e. the music of oboe/shawm and drum players of the periya mēḷam orchestra. It aims to develop innovative methods, techniques, and tools in order to analyse musical improvisation as a performative and creative process –aesthetically, emotionally and socially significant. Although it would provide an in-depth study of improvisation in which musical along with religious and social functions of Hindu high-castes ritual performance will be addressed, it is above all an attempt to pursue theoretical efforts to demonstrate that musical improvisation is not an allegedly inexplicable phenomenon and can be –at least partially– analysed and explained, by resorting to the hypothesis that a musical act which arises within an improvised performance constitutes at once an opportunity and a frame for the later development of the music that is being played. Furthermore, through a constructive analysis of improvised performances, it aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of existing theoretical approaches. Our goal is therefore to confront theoretical debates with practical analysis.

Our methodology will draw on a wide range of disciplines, notably ethnomusicology, historical musicology, cultural and cognitive anthropology, ritual and performance studies, and sociology. Our analytical method will make use of aural transcription, sequential and paradigmatic analysis, elements of Schenkerian analysis, and will integrate the most advanced software programs specialised in musical analysis. Performers will be involved as far as possible in the research so as to point out quickly problems that challenge any attempt to reconstruct the processes of improvisation.'