Roll Over Rock: A Study of Music in Contemporary CultureStainer & Bell, 1981 - 175 pages |
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... collective singing or dancing . Without fixed notation , variation and improvisation were predominant and the link with the particular spirit world was through the manner more than the content of performance . Many of these ...
... collective singing or dancing . Without fixed notation , variation and improvisation were predominant and the link with the particular spirit world was through the manner more than the content of performance . Many of these ...
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... collective and conscious dependence upon ritual , with all its attendant symbolism . In literate Western culture , music can achieve a collective , archetypal significance only through its association with the mythological symbolism of ...
... collective and conscious dependence upon ritual , with all its attendant symbolism . In literate Western culture , music can achieve a collective , archetypal significance only through its association with the mythological symbolism of ...
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... collective psyche more than any other Western composer , achieved this universality essentially through bringing an archetypal myth to new life : only by association with that myth could Wagner create his own musical archetypes . As Sir ...
... collective psyche more than any other Western composer , achieved this universality essentially through bringing an archetypal myth to new life : only by association with that myth could Wagner create his own musical archetypes . As Sir ...
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The Path to Elitism | 21 |
The Path to Chauvinism | 32 |
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