Ngqoko throat singing: the search for an effective musical notation

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dc.contributor.authorTracey, Kerryn Ann
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-02T13:30:02Z
dc.date.available2009-09-02T13:30:02Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-02T13:30:02Z
dc.descriptionM.Mus. Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, 2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThis report forms part of the output of a research team investigating the phenomenon of overtone singing as practiced by the women of the Ngqoko Women’s Ensemble in the village of Ngqoko outside the town of Lady Frere in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. This essay examines various systems of musical notation in terms of their possible application in the transcription process of overtone singing as found amongst these women. A selection of their music is transcribed using the formulated notational systems and the effectiveness of these systems is compared. A recommendation as to which system of notation is most effective for documenting this type of music is made. Utilising the soundworld of the Ngqoko recordings, an original piece of music is composed as part of this submission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/7174
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectNgqoko Women's Ensembleen_US
dc.subjectovertone singingen_US
dc.subjectthroat singingen_US
dc.subjectnotation and original compositionen_US
dc.titleNgqoko throat singing: the search for an effective musical notationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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