Unplayed melodies Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory /

Main Author: Perlman, Marc.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10676216
Table of Contents:
  • Cognitive preliminaries: the nature of musical knowledge and the processes of creative thinking
  • A brief introduction to karawitan
  • Karawitan as a multipart music: the relations between the melodic parts
  • The balungan as melodic guide
  • Theorizing melodic guidance: the social and historical context of Javanese music theory
  • Three concepts of unplayed melody
  • Implicit-melody concepts in perspective
  • Patterns of conceptual innovation in music theory: a comparative approach.