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Author Perlman, Marc.

Title Unplayed melodies [electronic resource] : Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory / Marc Perlman.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xix, 254 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Music -- Indonesia -- Java -- History and criticism.
Gamelan music -- Indonesia -- Java -- History and criticism.
Melody.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0520239563
Standard No. 2027/heb05904 hdl

 
    
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