Ceremonial songs of the Tonawanda Seneca longhouse: tonal and rhythmic patterns and ritual functions [1936] Circa 1936

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Ceremonial songs of the Tonawanda Seneca longhouse: tonal and rhythmic patterns and ritual functions [1936] Circa 1936

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Musicological analysis of music, with atttempt to relate musical patterns to "present ritual function," with some consideration of speculative questions of chronology and individual creativity.

1.0 Volume(s), 50 p.; 90 leaves of musical scores

American Philosophical Society

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Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch.

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Gertrude Prokosch Kurath (1903-1992) was educated at Bryn Mawr College (MA, 1928, History of Art) and at the Yale University School of Drama (1929-1930). She received extensive training in music practice and theory, and in several systems of art dance as well as folk dancing, in Germany and the United States. From 1923-1946, she was an active teacher of modern dance, as a concert performer with the stage name Tula, and as a producer of pageants and dance dramas. In the mid-1940s, she turned her ...