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New Publications: Echoes from Georgia


By Maurice - Posted on 05 March 2010

Echoes from Georgia: Seventeen Arguments on Georgian Polyphony

Edited by RUSUDAN TSURTSUMIA and JOSEPH JORDANIA

Focus on Civilizations and Cultures – MUSIC SERIES

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

New York

 


CONTENTS

Preface vii

From the Reviewers ix

Georgian Polyphony in a Century of Research: Foreword from the Editors xv

 

Chapter 1 Georgian Songs   

Siegfried F. Nadel

 

Chapter 2 The Views and Theories of Georgian Authors 19

Ivane Javaxishvili

 

Chapter 3 Svan Folk Song 35

Dimitri Araqishvili

 

Chapter 4 Forms of Multipart Singing in Georgian Folk Songs 57

Shalva Aslanishvili

 

Chapter 5 Essay on Georgian (Acharian) Folk Songs 83

Vladimer Akhobadze

 

Chapter 6 Main Types of Georgian Folk Polyphony 99

Grigol Chkhikvadze

 

Chapter 7 On the Question of Modzakhili—High Bass 113

Mindia Jordania

 

Chapter 8 On the Problem of Polyphony in Meskhetian Songs 127

Valerian Magradze

 

Chapter 9 Some Characteristic Features of the Voice Coordination and Harmony in

Georgian Multipart Music 139

Evsevi Chokhonelidze

 

Chapter 10 On Authentic and Plagal Types of Monotonic (Non-Octave) Scales in Georgian Traditional Vocal Polyphony 151

 

Chapter 11 The Role of Responsorial Singing in the Development of Georgian Polyphony 161  

Vladimer Gogotishvili

 

Chapter 12 Criteria for Determining the Types of Polyphony of Georgian Folk Songs 181

Tamaz Gabisonia

 

Edisher Garaqanidze

 

Chapter 13 A Historical Examination of the Links between Georgian Polyphony and Central Asian-Transcaucasian Monophony 199

Nino Tsitsishvili

 

Chapter 14 Polyphony and Folk Musical Instruments 219

Manana Shilakadze

 

Chapter 15 Georgian Traditional Polyphony in Comparative Studies: History and Perspectives 233

Joseph Jordania

 

Chapter 16 The Georgian Model: Toward the Ethnogeomusical Approach to the World of Oral Polyphony 253

Izaly I. Zemtsovsky

 

Chapter 17 Georgian Multipart Singing and National Identity 261

Rusudan Tsurtsumia

Bibliography on Georgian Traditional Polyphony 275

About the Authors of the Collection 289

Index 299