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Tenzer, Michael. “The Life in Gendhing: Current Approaches to Javanese Gamelan." Indonesia, 63 (1997): 169-186.
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Powerpoint on Javanese Gamelan
Powerpoint on Balinese Gamelan
Head, from Shadowbang Suite, Evan Ziporyn
Toshio Hosokawa, Kalligraphie, movement V, for string quartet (2010) as pdf and Word doc, score, due February 20
The Javanese Gamelan
R. Anderson Sutton, "Asia/Music of Indonesia," from Worlds of Music,: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples, 5th ed., edit. Jeff Todd Titon (New York, Schemer, 2009), pp. 213–231.
Benjamin Brinner, Music in central Java : experiencing music, expressing culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Chapter 2, A Sense of Time, Chapter 3, Gamelan, Tuning, and Instrumental Melody, Chapter 4, Songs, Singers, and Gamelan, pp. 25–87.
Sumarsam's Introduction to Javanese Gamelan (Wesleyan)
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Sumarsam's "Temporal and Density Flow in Javanese Gamelan."In Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm: Asian, African, and Euro- American Perspectives, Edited by Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty (Oxford University Press 2019), 196-211
R. Anderson Sutton, "Central and East Java," Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia, edit. Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams (Routledge, 1998), pp. 630–85.
Marc Perlman, "A Brief Introduction to Karawitan," from Unplayed melodies: Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), pp. 37–60.
R. Anderson Sutton and Roger R. Vetter, "Flexing the Frame in Javanese Gamelan Music: Playfulness in a Performance of Ladran Pangkur," in Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edit. Michael Tenzer and John Roeder (Oxford University Press, 2006 ), pp. 237–72.
The Balinese Gamelan
Michael Tenzer, Balinese Gamelan Music (Tuttle Pub., 2011).
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Bakan, Michael, "Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music," College Music Symposium 33/34 (1993/1994): 1–22.
"Two Lelambatan," Excerpt from "Integrating Music: Personal and Global Transformations", in Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, ed. Michael Tenzer and John Roeder (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Michael Tenzer, "Oleg Tumulilingan: Layers of Time and Melody in Balinese Music," in Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music, edit. Michael Tenzer and John Roeder (Oxford University Press, 2006 ), pp. 205–36.
New Music and Indonesia
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Mueller, Richard. "Javanese Influence on Debussy's 'Fantaisie' and beyond." 19th-Century Music, 10/2 (1986).
Mitchell, Donald. "Catching on to the technique in Pagoda-land." In The Britten Companion, ed. Mervyn Cooke (Cambridge, 1984)
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Spiller, Henry. "Lou Harrison's Music for Western Instruments and Gamelan: Even More Western than it Sounds, Asian Music, 40/1 (2009), 31–52.
Steele, Pete. "Gamelan Fusion Post-Multiculturalism." Perspectives of New Music, 53/1 (2015), 189–213.
Tenzer, Michael. "One Fusion Among Many: Merging Bali, India, and the West through Modernism"." Circuit, 21, no. 2 (2011) : 77–100.
Tenzer, Michael. "José Maceda and the Paradoxes of Modern Composition in Southeast Asia"." Ethnomusicology, 47, no. 1 (2003): 93–120.