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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 a
- 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: Slendro and Pelog 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, Gender, and Other Elaborating Instruments Cengkok, 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: Schemat
- 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 App
- 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: