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		The present Discussion Forum is the result of a colloquium, organised at the end of 1997 in Paris, focusing on an article by Simha Arom which had been published some weeks previously in our volume 1, number 2 (autumn 1997).
		Simha Arom launched the debate which focused from its outset on the five types – or modes – of anhemitonic pentatonic scales and their equivalence within African music.
		Taking as his starting point the writings of Constantin Brailoiu and Simha Arom, he raises questions concerning the melodic formulæ typical of pentatonicism, ambitus, modal organisation and the existence of scales based on less than five degrees.
	musicweb.hmt-hannover.de /escom/MusicSc/MSDF1-00/MSDF1-00En.htm (1184 words)

	Event Details - Middle Eastern and African Studies - University of Alberta
		Professor Simha Arom, a distinguished scholar of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and specialist on the music and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, will visit the University of Alberta on October 21 and 22, 2005 as part of a North American speaking tour.
		Arom's landmark book African Polyphony and Polyrhythm, published in French (1986) and English (1991), is an undisputed classic in the field of musical ethnography, and was awarded the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 1992.
		Arom received the Silver Medal of the C.N.R.S. in 1984 for his development of methods of analysis of traditional, unwritten polyphonic music.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /meas/details.cfm?ID_event=5621 (162 words)

	HSS
		Indeed, Simha Arom, a specialist in Central African musics, maintains that except for the master drummer in Central African percussion ensembles, Central African music does not call for improvisation.
		This tune is performed during the ceremony of the geming' cult (birth, birthday, death of a child or a parent) and calls for two xylophones.
		Gbambiya music for xylophones does not depart from the rules established by Simha Arom concerning the musical systematic of Central African instrumental polyphonies and polyrhythms.
	www.music.ed.ac.uk /colloquia/conferences/esem/bom.html (2159 words)

	Pygmy music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The African Pygmies are particularly known for their usually vocal music, usually characterised by dense contrapuntal communal improvisation.
		Simha Arom (2003) says that the level of polyphonic complexity of Pygmy music was reached in Europe in the 14th century, yet Pygmy culture is unwritten and ancient, some Pygmy groups being the first known cultures in some areas of Africa.
		Liner notes by Aimard, Ligeti, Reich, and Simha Arom and Stefan Schomann.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Pgymy_music.htm (554 words)

	La Folia -- African Traditional Music and Suprasl, Orthodox Mosaic
		Thus Simha Arom arranged these fifteen tracks not according to the seven ethnic groups who created the music, but following the order of key events in an imagined life.
		Arom recorded this album in two different nations, Niger and Benin, and according to the liner notes, some of the six million Fulani also live in Senegal, Cameroun, and Nigeria.
		According to Arom’s liner notes, northern Benin was a crossroads for salt and cola nuts, as well as for the spread of Islam.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/reigle/reigle200007africa.html (1453 words)

	Bibliogr: The World of Music 1977-2003 (articles)
		Arom, Simha: "New Perspectives for the Description of 0rally Transmitted Music." the world of music 23, 1981(2):40-62.
		Arom, Simha and Frank Alvarez-Pereyre: "Ethnomusicology and the Emic/Etic Issue." the world of music 35, 1993(1):7-33.
		Arom, Simha and Frank Alvarez-Pereyre: "The Holistic Approach to Ethnomusicological Studies." the world of music 28, 1986(2):3-13.
	web.uni-bamberg.de /~ba2fm3/bibl_wom1977ff.htm (11340 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 90046665 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Publisher description for African polyphony and polyrhythm : musical structure and methodology / Simha Arom ; translated from French by Martin Thom, Barbara Tuckett, and Raymond Boyd.
		In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterise African music.
		Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom develops a a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam024/90046665.html (186 words)

	Laughing Squid » SIMHA AROM: Time Organization in African Music
		Professor Simha Arom, a distinguished scholar of the French
		Professor Arom is most widely known for a prize-winning
		Arom also received the Silver Medal of the C.N.R.S. in 1984
	laughingsquid.com /squidlist/calendar/11512/2005/10/9 (246 words)

	taliesin's log (voices of women)
		But I didn't hear my first recordings of Pygmy polyphony until a decade later, when I was writing mainly about many different musics in my last years at the Beeb.
		Two of them, originally released by UNESCO on LP, are now on CD as part of the superb Radio France-Ocora collection.
		There he described how Arom's pioneering and original approach got him thinking about the meter, or pulse, of music in new ways.
	radio.weblogs.com /0120356/2003/10/19.html (857 words)

	Amazon.com: African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Books: Simha Arom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a completely new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterize African music.
		Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, the book is both an examination of the fundamental musical principles in African music and a practical guide for those involved in the recording of oral polyphonic musics.
		The importance of Simha Arom's work lies in his development of a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm.
	www.amazon.com /African-Polyphony-Polyrhythm-Simha-Arom/dp/0521616018 (1030 words)

	Amazon.com: "Simha Arom": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		movement are stated, uses a theme derived from Central African horn music that I became aware of through the ethnomusicologist Simha Arom.
		He has discovered interesting properties of asymmetric rhythms underlying this music, and we shall focus on the coinbinatorics of...
		Experimental ethnomusicology: An interactive approach to the study of musical scales Simha Arom LACITO-CNRS, Paris, France Gilles Lothaud Universit de Paris-IV,...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Simha-Arom (503 words)

	Books by Simha Arom, compare prices
		by Simha Arom, Jacqueline M.C. Thomas, Serge Bahuchet, Alain Epelboin
		by Martin Thom (Translator), Simha Arom, Gyorgy Ligeti (Foreword By), Raymond Boyd (Translator), Barbara Tuckett (Translator)
		by Simha Arom, Laboratoire des langues et civilisations a tradition orale (France), Vincent Dehoux, Societe francaise d'ethnomusicologie
	www.allbookstores.com /author/Simha_Arom.html (244 words)

	Simha Arom
		Une leçon de musique africaine, (un film de Simha Arom réalisé par Jérôme Blumberg), le CNRS Images/Média, 36’ (Grand Prix Investigation et publication scientifique, 3ème Festival International du Film de Chercheur – Nancy 1998).
		- 1994b, Entretien avec Simha Arom, propos recueillis par J.-B. Barrière et L. Bayle, Résonance 6, pp.
		- 1995b, Entretien avec Simha Arom, propos recueillis par F. Jacquesson, Revue d'Ethnolinguistique (Cahiers du LACITO) 7, pp.
	www.vjf.cnrs.fr /lms/sab.htm (3960 words)

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		Issued in 1990 by the Ethnomusicology Department of the Muse’e de l’Homme in Paris, this book/CD set presents a cross-section of different types of musical instruments.
		The examples represent many parts of the world, and are drawn primarily from the collections of French ethnomusicologists such as Geneviève Dournon, Gilbert Rouget, Simha Arom, Hugo Zemp, Trân Quang Hai and others.
		The 36 tracks are arranged in the usual four categories.
	members.aol.com /ethnodox/reviews/1-4j_MusInstrWorld2.htm (479 words)

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