Scarecrow Press
Pages: 424
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-8108-4890-0 • Paperback /Audio disc • April 2004 • $92.00 • (£71.00)
978-1-4617-4707-9 • eBook • April 2004 • $87.00 • (£67.00)
Eno Koço is a teaching fellow of performance classes and permanent conductor of University of Leeds Philharmonia at University of Leeds, School of Music. He conducts throughout North England and maintains regular contact with several Balkan orchestras and opera houses. He makes programs on the music of Albania for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service and gives papers on the same theme at different universities, including at Limerick, Leeds, London, Tirana, and Prishtina.
Part 1 Preface: A Personal Note
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Map
Part 4 Introduction
Part 5 Tree Diagram
Part 6 A Note on Names, Pronunciation and Grammar
Part 7 CD Track Listing
Part 8 Part I — SYNTHESIS
Chapter 9 Chapter One Albania and the Albanians
Chapter 10 Chapter Two The Transmission of Urban Songs
Chapter 11 Chapter Three Performers and Performance
Part 12 Part II — ANALYSIS
Chapter 13 Chapter Four Poetry and Music in AUS and AULS
Chapter 14 Chapter Five General Characteristics of the Modes Used in AUS and AULS
Chapter 15 Chapter Six The Analysis of Albanian Urban Lyric Song
Part 16 Conclusion
Part 17 Song Texts
Part 18 Glossary
Part 19 Bibliography
Part 20 Index of Songs
Part 21 Notated Modes and Piano Arrangements of AULS in Order of the Examples Marked by Letters (Not Recorded)
Part 22 Catalog of Recordings
Part 23 Explanation of Musical Examples
Part 24 Notation
Chapter 25 Modes (Examples A-K)
Chapter 26 Albanian Urban Lyric Songs (Examples 1-52)
Chapter 27 Piano Arrangements of AULS (Examples L-P)
Part 28 Programs of the Concerts
Part 29 Index
Part 30 About the Author
It is the Albanian 'lyric' song of the 1930s and the singers, instrumentalists, composer-arrangers, and lyricists who developed it that are the primary subject of Eno Koco's excellent and well-researched study. As the first monograph in English to examine an urban song repertoire from southeastern Europe, and the first to detail musical life in the region in the early twentieth century, it will be revelatory for international readers....the present study is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature on European vernacular musics. It belongs in every university library supporting programs in ethnomusicology, folklore, and European or East European Studies, as well as any library that serves the large Albanian communities living in English-speaking areas.
— Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association
• Winner, ARSC Certificate of Merit_Best Research in Recorded World Music 2005