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A Formal Model of Syncretism in Scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Michio Kitahara
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The concept of syncretism in music has gained fairly wide acceptance. Even so, due to the lack of sufficient empirical data, there have been very few relevant theoretical studies. We do have some pertinent overall ideas, however, and it should be possible to build a tentative model of syncretism on the basis of what we do know about the process. This paper makes such an attempt.

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Research Article
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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 2 , 1970 , pp. 121 - 126
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Copyright © 1971 By the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 

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References

1 von Ehrenfels, C., “Über Gestaltqualitäten,” Vierteljahrsschrift für Wissen-schaftliche Philosophie, XIV (1890), 249ff.Google Scholar

2 On the basis of the above model, one empirical study was made by the present author: Michio Kitahara, “Kayokyoku: An Example of Syncretism Involving Scale and Mode,” Ethnomusicology, X, no. 3 (September, 1966), 271–284.Google Scholar