Penelitian ini menemukan kajian etnomusikologi pada alat musik thungka, karena peneliti ingin mengetahui segala sesuatu yang terdapat dalam thangka, baik itu berupa aspek fungsi, musikal, instrumental dan sosial budaya tradisional thungka. Dalam penelitian metode digunakan yaitu kualitatif. Fungsi Thungka dasarnya sebagai untuk penumbuk padi acara musim panen disetiap tahun akan tetapi sekarang...

In this article, we argue that ethnomusicology holds valuable epistemic insights for considering how to measure and evaluate research academics, as well policy management professionals. We focus on two notable instances of standardised national assessment frameworks: the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), in Australia (ERA) identify advantages practice models music by benefits ethnomusic...

The intention of this paper is to discuss issues involved with ‘music’ as a system of communication; particularly those issues that suggest that music is a type language or that musical symbols can in someway be equated with linguistic symbols. The intention is ultimately to demonstrate that this fixed approach to musicality is flawed in many ways, and that this is demonstrated consistently par...

To find occurrences of melodic segments, such as themes, phrases and motifs, in musical works, a well-performing similarity measure is needed to support human analysis of large music corpora. We evaluate the performance of a range of melodic similarity measures to find occurrences of phrases in folk song melodies. We compare the similarity measures correlation distance, city-block distance, Euc...

This article discusses some expressions and elements of orality and aurality in late modern society, and the roles, functions, and limitations of these expressions. Traditional song of different cultural origin has been the subject of much analysis and scholarship within the areas of orality studies, ballad studies, and several other related fields. However, songs and singing are in many cases ...