Hindu-Javanese Musical Instruments
Author | : Jaap Kunst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789401191869 |
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Author | : Jaap Kunst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2014-01-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789401191869 |
Author | : Jaap Kunst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Musical instruments |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jakob Kunst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Musical instruments |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jaap Kunst |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9401191859 |
Author | : J. Kunst |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9400934696 |
One day in the summer of 1921 a postal delivery brought me a little packet of reprints from the periodical "Djawa" : articles about Indonesian music by Dr. JAAP KUNST, which until that moment had not come to my notice. A cursory glance was enough to convince me that the author was a very gifted man, who had made a sound and absolutely scientific study of the subject, and thereby made a valuable contribution, by means of careful observation and actual tone-measurements, to the facts known from the older studies by GRONEMAN, LAND and ELLIS. These measure ments were particularly satisfying to me personally, since they constituted an astonishing confirmation of a hypothesis concerning the genesis of tone systems (through the "cycle of blown fifths"), which I had propounded two years previously, without, however, having published it. At the same time it was proved, through the perfect conformity existing between the measured and the theoretical absolute pitches (vibration frequencies), that Indonesian gamelan tuning, too, belongs to the radius of ancient Chinese culture - much the same as is the case with Pan-pipes and xylo phones all over· the world. The first contact between Dr. KUNST and myself led to a regular cor respondence, which especially contributed to a further development of the above-mentioned theory of tone-systems.
Author | : Jaap Kunst |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2013-12-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9401771308 |
Author | : Judith Becker |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0824882210 |
Musicologist Judith Becker contends that sociopolitical changes in Javanese society since the 1940s are reflected in changes in the structure of gamelan music, which is one of the traditional musics of Java. She sees gamelan music as a musical system in a state of crisis, unsure of its proper function and direction. While traditional gamelan musical structures supported old Hindu-Javanese concepts of cosmology and kingship, modern innovations reflect Indonesian nationalism and a desire to become a "twentieth century nation." In particular, the introduction of Western musical notation, which Becker describes as "the most pervasive, penetrating, and ultimately the most insidious type of Western influence," is changing gamelan from an aural to a written tradition. Becker examines the works of contemporary composers Ki Wasitodipuro and Ki Nartosabdho to illustrate modern innovations in gamelan compositions and the attitudes of composers to their music, as they attempt to compromise between the ethos and structure of traditional gamelan music and the changing tastes and attitudes of the modern Indonesian nation. In addition to her interpretation of the political influence on gamelan music, Becker includes four appendices that ethnomusicologists will find valuable. Appendix I articulates her theory of the derivation of central Javanese gamelan gongan, the basic temporal/melodic repeated unit of gamelan music. Appendix II gives biographical sketches of Ki Wasitodipuro and Ki Nartosabdho and lists their compositions referred to in the text. Appendices II and IV deal with various aspects of pathet, a Javanese system of classifying gamelan pieces. A fifth appendix, by Alan R. Templeton, gives an informational analysis of pathet.
Author | : Himanshu Prabha Ray |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000220672 |
This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period, as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit, Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts, not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes, but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins, more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, Indian Ocean studies, maritime studies, South and Southeast Asian studies, religious studies and cultural studies.
Author | : Sumarsam |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1995-12-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780226780115 |
Gamelan is the first study of the music of Java and the development of the gamelan to take into account extensive historical sources and contemporary cultural theory and criticism. An ensemble dominated by bronze percussion instruments that dates back to the twelfth century in Java, the gamelan as a musical organization and a genre of performance reflects a cultural heritage that is the product of centuries of interaction between Hindu, Islamic, European, Chinese, and Malay cultural forces. Drawing on sources ranging from a twelfth-century royal poem to the writing of a twentieth-century nationalist, Sumarsam shows how the Indian-inspired contexts and ideology of the Javanese performing arts were first adjusted to the Sufi tradition and later shaped by European performance styles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He then turns to accounts of gamelan theory and practice from the colonial and postcolonial periods. Finally, he presents his own theory of gamelan, stressing the relationship between purely vocal melodies and classical gamelan composition.
Author | : Murray Steib |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2013-12-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1135942625 |
The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).