Simha flavor
Simha Arom (born August 16, 1930 in Düsseldorf ) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist . He has specialized in the polyphonic and polyrhythmic music of the Central African Republic and analyzed the oral music tradition of the pygmies there .
Life
Arom studied French horn at the Conservatoire de Paris from 1951 to 1954 , after which he went to Jerusalem and from 1958 to 1963 was employed as the first horn player at the Israel Broadcasting Authority . In 1963 he founded the National Museum Musee National Boganda in the Central African capital Bangui , of which he remained director until 1967. During this time he conducted field research with the pygmies. His LP The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies , recorded with Geneviève Taurelle , which was released in 1966 and contains polyphonic chants with the single-tone flute hindewhu , achieved great influence among Western musicians who were inspired by the unique sounds.
He then returned to Paris and studied from 1968 to 1973 at the Sorbonne with Jacques Chailley music ethnology. From 1968 he was a member of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Since 1993 he has lectured at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. At the University of Tel Aviv he had from 1979 to 1983 the position of associate professor held, at the same time he was music director from 1980 to 1982 on public Israeli radio. In 1998 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea .
On November 9, 2016, Arom took part as a contemporary witness at the official commemorative event of the state capital Düsseldorf on the pogrom night .
Prizes and awards
- 1971, 1978 and 1985 Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy
- 1992 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Literature to Music
- 2008 Fumio Koizumi Prize for Ethnic Music
- 2008 Prize of the Fondation Fyssen (endowed with 60,000 euros)
Works
- African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology . 1991, ISBN 0-521-24160-X .
- with Frank Alvarez-Péreyre: Précis d'ethnomusicologie . CNRS Editions, 2007
literature
- Jean Gribenski: Arom, Simha. In: Stanley Sadie : The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Vol. 2. Macmillan Publishers, London 2001, pp. 60f.
- Wolfgang Fuhrmann : The most distant is moving closer together. Music by György Ligeti and the Aka-Pygmies in the chamber music hall of the Philharmonic . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 14, 2001
Web links
- Simha Arom doublement récompensé, for the ensemble de ses travaux en ethnomusicologie. CNRS, February 3, 2009
- Simha Arom, ethnomusicologist and head of research at the National Research Center CNRS, tells Archimedes today how his method for analyzing traditional music came about. arte, October 31, 2000
Individual evidence
- ^ Membership directory: Simha Arom. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 27, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arom, Simha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Israeli ethno-musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |