Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Title | Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Spiller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135901899 |
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Indonesian values and modern-day life. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia provides an introduction to present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. Part One, Music and Southeast Asian History ̧ provides introductory materials for the study of Southeast Asian music. Part Two, Gamelan Music in Java and Bali, moves to a more focused overview of Gamelan music in Indonesia. Part Three, Focusing In, takes an in-depth look at Sundanese gamelan traditions, as well modern developments in Sundanese music and dance. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional Indonesian gamelan music.
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Title | Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Spiller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2022-02-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1000529800 |
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia, Third Edition, introduces the emblematic music of Southeast Asia’s largest country, as sound and as cultural phenomenon, highlighting the significant role gamelan music plays in the national culture while teaching of Indonesian values and modern-day life. Despite Indonesia’s great diversity—a melting pot of indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and modern global influences—a forged national identity is at its core. This volume explores that identity, understanding present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. New to the third edition: Updated content throughout to reflect current Indonesian history and geography, as well as revivals of gamelan ensembles by the Cirebonese courts Modern examples of Indonesian musics, along with new uses of gamelan and other traditional musics An examination of school gamelan and ISBI as a center of innovation Expanded discussion on dangdut and its current status in Indonesia, along with Islam’s effect on dangdut Listening examples now posted as online eResources
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia
Title | Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Spiller |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2010-04-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1135901902 |
Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia is an introduction to the familiar music from Southeast Asia's largest country - both as sound and cultural phenomenon. An archipelago of over 17,000 islands, Indonesia is a melting pot of Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences. Despite this diversity, it has forged a national culture, one in which music plays a significant role. Gamelan music, in particular, teaches us much about Indonesian values and modern-day life. Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia provides an introduction to present-day Javanese, Balinese, Cirebonese, and Sundanese gamelan music through ethnic, social, cultural, and global perspectives. Part One, Music and Southeast Asian History ̧ provides introductory materials for the study of Southeast Asian music. Part Two, Gamelan Music in Java and Bali, moves to a more focused overview of Gamelan music in Indonesia. Part Three, Focusing In, takes an in-depth look at Sundanese gamelan traditions, as well modern developments in Sundanese music and dance. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional Indonesian gamelan music.
Focus
Title | Focus PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Spiller |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0415960673 |
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Music of Death and New Creation
Title | Music of Death and New Creation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael B. Bakan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1999-12-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780226034881 |
The accompanying CD contains music excerpts which are listed in the book on pgs. xiii-xvii.
American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination
Title | American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. Clendinning |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780252043383 |
Gamelan and American academic institutions have maintained their close association for more than sixty years. Elizabeth A. Clendinning illuminates what it means to devote one’s life to world music ensemble education by examining the career and community surrounding the Balinese-American performer and teacher I Made Lasmawan. Weaving together stories of Indonesian and American practitioners, colleagues, and friends, Clendinning shows the impact of academic world music ensembles on the local and transnational communities devoted to education and the performing arts. While arguing for the importance of such ensembles, Clendinning also spotlights how performers and educators use them to create stable and rewarding artistic communities. Cross-cultural ensemble education emerges as a worthy goal for students and teachers alike, particularly at a time when people around the world express more enthusiasm about raising walls to keep others out rather than building bridges to invite them in.
Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective
Title | Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | André de Quadros |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2019-03-11 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0429656319 |
Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective introduces the little-known traditions and repertoires of the world’s choral diversity, from prison choirs in Thailand and gay and lesbian choruses of the Western world to community choruses in the Middle East and youth choirs in the United States. The book weaves together the stories of diverse individuals and organizations, examining their music and pedagogical practices while presenting the author’s research on how choral cultures around the world interact with societies and transform the lives of their members. Through an engaging series of portraits that pushes beyond the scope of extant texts and studies, the author explores the dynamic realm of world choral activity and repertoire. These personal portraits of musical communities are enriched by sample repertoire lists, performance details, and research findings that reposition a once Western phenomenon as a global concept. Focus: Choral Music in Global Perspective is an accessible, engaging, and provocative study of one of the world’s most ubiquitous and socially significant forms of music-making.