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Music in central Java : experiencing music, expressing culture / Benjamin Brinner.
| Author/creator | Brinner, Benjamin Elon |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. |
| Description | xix, 172 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 22 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.). |
| Subjects |
| Series | Global music series Global music series. ^A563337 |
| Contents | First hearings. 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 -- 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 -- Gamelan, tuning, and instrumental melody. Gamelan tunings ; Tuning systems: Slendro and Pelog ; Gamelan instruments ; Instrumental melody ; Melody and elaboration. Balungan, Peking, and Bonang ; "Ladrang Asmaradana" -- Songs, singers, and gamelan. Social aspects of singing ; Poetry, song, and gamelan -- Melodic elaboration and training in the arts. Rebab, gender, and other elaborating instruments ; Cengkok, variation, and the transmission of musical knowledge -- 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 -- Music for motion an demotion - Wayang Kulit. "Brajadenta Balela" ; Wayang repertoire. Music for expressing emotion: sulukan ; Music for accompanying motion: gendhing lampah ; Music for setting a score: gendhing -- Return to "Brajadenta balela" ; Flexibility and appropriateness ; Conventions and innovations -- 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. |
| Abstract | This book offers a vivid introduction to the region's musical and cultural landscape, showing how three themes - flexibility, appropriateness, and interconnectedness - characterize Javanese musical practices and traditions. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork, the author takes an in-depth look at gamelan music - a traditional musical ensemble tradition that typically features metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs - providing readers with a sense of what it means to be a musician performing gamelan. Building from fundamental Javanese concepts of time and melody, the book covers gamelan's instruments, musical idioms, and central interactions and also surveys contrasting performance contexts. It examines both the theatrical and musical aspects of the vibrant tradition of shadow-puppet plays (Wayang kulit) and offers a broad survey of other music found in Central Java. In addition, this book provides an engaging portrait of a leading Javenese musician, traces musical responses to radical social, political, and cultural changes over the past century, and considers Javanese music in relation to Indonesia and the rest of the world. |
| Local note | Joyner-JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY SOUND RECORDING LOCATED AT CALL NUMBER: MusicLib CD-9640. |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006050652 |
| ISBN | 0195147367 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195147360 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0195147375 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195147377 (pbk. : alk. paper) |