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Ferruccio Busoni and The Indians’ Book
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Doing ethnography with music lies at the heart of this chapter. Browner’s “Ferruccio Busoni and The
Indians’ Book” looks at the complex ethnographic transformations that affect American music beyond issues of individual identity. Between 1913 and 1915, Italian virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni wrote three works based on transcriptions of Native American songs that he had received from Natalie Curtis, an ethnographer who was also his former theory pupil. Busoni’s use of American Indian melodies as a basis for European art music was unusual to say the least, and Browner considers his work from many perspectives.
Title: Ferruccio Busoni and The Indians’ Book
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Doing ethnography with music lies at the heart of this chapter.
Browner’s “Ferruccio Busoni and The
Indians’ Book” looks at the complex ethnographic transformations that affect American music beyond issues of individual identity.
Between 1913 and 1915, Italian virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni wrote three works based on transcriptions of Native American songs that he had received from Natalie Curtis, an ethnographer who was also his former theory pupil.
Busoni’s use of American Indian melodies as a basis for European art music was unusual to say the least, and Browner considers his work from many perspectives.
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