Week 3

Balinese music & its influence on twentieth-century composers

 

DIscussion of Lou Harrison's music for "American Gamelan" and traditional ensembles; recent music for gamelan by Southbank Gamelan, Michael Tenzer and Evan Ziporyn; Gamelan influence in Etude 7 by György Ligeti

 

Assignment 2: Analysis of Harrison's Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan, III. Belle's Bull, pdf

as Word doc

Score

 

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.

 

Reading for Thursday:

David B. Reck, India/South India, Chapter 6 of Worlds of Music, 3rd shorter edition, ed. Jeff Titon (Schirmer, 2008)

NB: I will be supplying my own listening selections with accompanying listening "maps," so ignore those in the text

 

Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi outline

 

Listening map for Ninnadanela

 

Listening map for Sarasamadana

 

Playlist 1

 

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

 

Playlist 2

 

Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan, III. Belle's Bull
Evan Ziporyn, Shadowbang 1. Head
Michael Tenzer, Underleaf, final section
Ninnadanela, Ramnad Krishnan
Sarasamadana, Karaikudi Subramaniam


Extras:

 

Pete Steele, "Gamelan Fusion Post-Multiculturalism," Perspectives of New Music 53/1 (2015), 189–213.

 

An interview with Lou Harrison

Lou Harrison talks about a New Gamelan