Includes bibliographical references and index.

Surface and deep structure in the Togaku ensemble of Japanese court music (Gagaku) / Naoko Terauchi -- Form, counterpopint, and meaning in a fourteenth-century French courtly song / Elizabeth Eva Leach -- Nuances of continual variation in the Brazilian pagode song "Sorriso aberto" / Jason Stanyek and Fabio Oliveira -- Thelonious Monk's harmony, rhythm, and pianism / Eva Ziporyn and Michael Tenzer -- Dynamics of melodic discourse in Indian music : Budhaditya Mukherjee's Ālāp in Rāg Pūriyā-Kalyān / Richard Widdess -- Timbre-and-form : the BSC and the Boston improvising community / Lou Bank -- Rhythm and folk drumming (P'ungmul) as the musical embodiment of communal consciousness in South Korean village society / Nathan Hesselink -- Strophic form and asymmetrical repetition in four American Indian songs / Victoria Linsay Levine and Brun Nettl -- Musical form and style in Murriny Patha Djanba songs at Wadeye (Northern Territory, Australia) / Linda Barwick -- Integrating music : personal and global transformations / Michael Tenzer -- Combining sounds to reinvent the worlds : world music, sociology, and musical analysis / Simha Arom and Denis-Constant Martin.