Week 4

 

Balinese Gamelan


Readings for this week:

 

Michael Tenzer, Balinese Gamelan Music, Chapters 4–7, pp. 47–124.

 

Chart for Baris

Chart for Jaya Semara

Transcription for Pengacet Lasem

 

Midterm on Indonesian Music Monday, Feb. 5.

 

Anak Angung Anom Putra dances Baris

 

 

 

Readings for next Wednesday:

 

Introduction to pitch names and structure in Indian music

 

David B. Reck, "India/South India" in Worlds of Music. 5th edition, Jeff Todd Titon, ed. (New York: Schirmer Books, 2009), pp. 179–87, 191–208.

 

Listening Bali

 

Tracks 6–12 from Tenzer

 

Listening Carnatic

 

 

Additional Readings

 

"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, "Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan," In Theory Only 6:2 (2000)

 

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.

 

Michael Bakan, "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.

Michael Bakan, "Lessons from a World: Balinese Applied Music Instruction and the Teaching of Western "Art" Music," College Music Symposium 33/34 (1993/1994): 1–22.