Week 1

Intro to course; Javanese music & Debussy

 

Read:

 

R. Anderson Sutton, Indonesia, Chapter 7 of Worlds of Music, 3rd shorter edition, ed. Jeff Titon (Schirmer, 2008)

 

Sumarsam, excerpt from "Gamelan as Intercultural Object," in Javanese Gamelan and the West (University or Rochester Press, 2013)

 

For week 2:

 

Michael Tenzer, "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)

 

Mervyn Cooke, "Benjamin Britten and the Balinese gamelan," Indonesia Circle (1990)

 

Playlist 1

 

Java:

Bubaran Kembang Pacar; Playon Lasem 1 & 2; Ladrang Wilujeng

 

Bali:

Baris Dance; excerpt from Pelayon; Pengecet Lasem; Sinti Lokarya; Lelambatan Tabuh Gari ; Kosalia Arini

 

Sundanese music:

Tonggeret

 

Debussy:

"Pagodes" from Estampes; L'Isle Joyeuse

 

Poulenc:

Concerto for Two Pianos, movement 1

 

Britten:

"The Pagodas" from the ballet Prince of the Pagodas

 

McPhee:

Tabuh-Tabuhan: Toccato for Orchestra; "Pemoengkah" from Balinese Ceremonial Music for two pianos

 

Class presentations

 

Javanese music ppt

Javanese music keynote

Balinese music 1 ppt
Balinese music 1 keynote

 

Extras:

 

Bubaran kembang "score"

Baris score

Jaya Semara listening map

List of Debussy works influenced by Gamelan

Richard Mueller, "Javanese Influence on Debussy's 'Fantaisie' and beyond," 19th-Century Music 10/2 (1986)

Donald Mitchell, "Catching on to the technique in Pagoda-land," The Britten Companion, ed. Mervyn Cooke (Cambridge, 1984)

 

Charles Amarkhanian, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison talk about Colin McPhee