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Beschreibung
Why does a rhythm pull at you?
For decades, Jerry Leake has chased that question inside the traditions that ask it most directly-North Indian tabla, South Indian solkattu, and the drumming of Ghana and Burkina Faso. Relating Sound & Time is what came of it: a 400-page book in two halves, one about what sound does to us, one about how time is built.
The first half is a working musician's account of sound itself. A Hindustani singer spends hours onstage tuning four tanpuras before he will sing a note. A guitar student's recital comes apart, and the cause turns out to be his jaw. There are conversations with tabla master Swapan Chaudhuri and with the Dagomba master drummer Dolsi-naa Abubakari Lunna, a chapter on rasa and the scoring of emotion, and an account of possession drumming in Ghana drawn from the author's own journals.
The second half turns to time. Nearly two hundred pages of West African, North Indian, and South Indian rhythm theory, laid out as exercises a player can work through-cycles, tihai, jati, cross-rhythm, and the metric relationships that run between one tradition and the next.
For percussionists, drummers, composers, and anyone who has wondered why certain sounds refuse to let go.
The book's 155 audio examples-two full CDs, every track keyed to the page it illustrates-are available as a free download from the Rhombus Publishing website.
Why does a rhythm pull at you?
For decades, Jerry Leake has chased that question inside the traditions that ask it most directly-North Indian tabla, South Indian solkattu, and the drumming of Ghana and Burkina Faso. Relating Sound & Time is what came of it: a 400-page book in two halves, one about what sound does to us, one about how time is built.
The first half is a working musician's account of sound itself. A Hindustani singer spends hours onstage tuning four tanpuras before he will sing a note. A guitar student's recital comes apart, and the cause turns out to be his jaw. There are conversations with tabla master Swapan Chaudhuri and with the Dagomba master drummer Dolsi-naa Abubakari Lunna, a chapter on rasa and the scoring of emotion, and an account of possession drumming in Ghana drawn from the author's own journals.
The second half turns to time. Nearly two hundred pages of West African, North Indian, and South Indian rhythm theory, laid out as exercises a player can work through-cycles, tihai, jati, cross-rhythm, and the metric relationships that run between one tradition and the next.
For percussionists, drummers, composers, and anyone who has wondered why certain sounds refuse to let go.
The book's 155 audio examples-two full CDs, every track keyed to the page it illustrates-are available as a free download from the Rhombus Publishing website.
Über den Autor
Jerry Leake is the author of ten books of fiction and nine books on rhythm and percussion. His fiction ranges across thrillers, dark fantasy, and literary suspense - the Jack's Alive trilogy, the Twin Crossing duology, Lethal Injection, The Soul Searcher, Sand and Ceremony - and often draws on the places and people he knows firsthand. He has also written cartoon and comic collections - Far Fetched, Dogbreath - and books for younger readers. He is a Professor of World Percussion at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His percussion texts on North Indian, South Indian, West African, and Afro-Cuban rhythm are used by students and players worldwide. He has studied and performed in Ghana and India, and is a founding member of Natraj and Club d'Elf, leads the world-rock fusion octet Cubist, and has long played with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9798231065189
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Leake, Jerry
Hersteller: Rhombus Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jerry Leake
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2025
Gewicht: 0,672 kg
Artikel-ID: 133892446

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