Readings for this week:
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.
Michael Tenzer, Balinese Gamelan Music (Tuttle Pub., 2011), Chapters 1–3, pp. 13–46.
Readings for next week:
Michael Tenzer, Balinese Gamelan Music, Chapters 4–7, pp. 47–124.
Chart for Baris
Chart for Jaya Semara
Transcription for Pengacet Lasem
Listening Java
Tracks 8–29 from Brinner, chapters 2–4
Tracks 1–5 from Tenzer
Additional Readings
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.
Bakan, Michael, "Indonesian Gamelan Music: Interlocking Rhythms and Interlocking Worlds," in World Music: Traditions and Transformations, 2nd ed., edited by Michael Bakan (McGraw-Hill, 2012), pp. 85–114.
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.