Week 2

Balinese music & its influence on twentieth-century composers

 

Read:

 

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)

 

For next week's discussion:

 

Leta E. Miller and Fredric Lieberman, "Lou Harrison and the American Gamelan," American Music 17/2 (1999), 146–78.

Henry Spiller, "Lou Harrison's Music for Western Instruments and Gamelan: Even More Western than it Sounds," Asian Music 40/1 (2009), 31–52.

 

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

 

Lou Harrison:

Suite for Violin, Piano and small orchestra, III. First Gamelan

Concerto in Slendro, I

Varied Trio, I. Gending

Main Bersama-sama

In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel

 

Class presentations

 

 

 

Extras:

 

An interview with Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison talks about a New Gamelan

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