Table of Contents

Foreword:
Preface:
CD Track List:
1. First Hearings
Introduction
What Is a Gamelan?
Gamelan Performance Contexts in Solo: Life Cycles and Musical Cycles
Cyclicity and Coincidence
Music in the Everyday
Patronage and Sociopolitical Change
Social Status, Language, and Interaction:
Gamelan at the Radio Station:
Similarities and Differences
Categories and Cross-Cultural (Mis)Communication
Conclusion: Three Themes
Flexibility of Frameworks and Processes:
Appropriateness:
Interconnectedness:
2. A Sense of Time
Making and Marking Musical Time: Gongs and Drums
Cyclicity and Colotomic Function:
Drumming
Lancaran Drum Patterns
Gongs, Drums, and the Flexibility of Time
3. Gamelan, Tuning, and Instrumental Melody
Gamelan Tunings
Tuning Systems: Sléndro and Pélog
Gamelan Instruments
Instrumental Melody
Melody and Elaboration
Balungan, Peking, and Bonang
"Landrang Asmaradana"
4. Songs, Singers, and Gamelan
Social Aspects of Singing
Poetry, Song, and Gamelan
Conclusion
5. Melodic Elaboration and Training in the Arts
Rebab, Gendèr, and Other Elaborating Instruments
Céngkok, Variation, and the Transmission of Musical Knowledge
6. Shadows and Tales
Wayang in Pangkah Village
Javanese Shadow Plays
The Stories and the Telling: The Main Elements
Physical Setup:
Plots and Plot Sources:
Characters and Character Types:
Language and Voice:
Movement Patterns:
Dramatic Structure: Schemata of Various Sizes:
Conclusion
7. Music for Motion and Emotion--Wayang Kulit
"Brajadenta Balela"
Wayang Repertoire
Music for Expressing Emotion: Sulukan
Music for Accompanying Motion: Gendhing Lampah
Music for Setting a Scene: Gendhing
Return to "Brajadenta Balela"
Flexibility and Appropriateness
Conventions and Innovations
8. Java and Beyond
Pak Cokro
Interconnectedness: Theater, Dance, and Music
Educational Institutions
Regionalism and the Dominance of Solonese Style
Java and the Rest of Indonesia
Java and the World
Conclusion
Glossary:
References:
Resources:
Index:

Reviews

"In most respects, this is not [just] an introduction to Central Javanese gamelan; it is a thorough exploration of Central Java's music, musicians, structures, and contexts. As such, it is remarkable."--David Harnish, Bowling Green State University
"In most respects, this is not [just] an introduction to Central Javanese gamelan; it is a thorough exploration of Central Java's music, musicians, structures, and contexts. As such, it is remarkable."--David Harnish, Bowling Green State University