Music in Bali: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface CD Track List: 1. The Balinese Ceremonial Soundscape: Simultaneity of Soundings Place, Time, and Circumstance The Act of Offering Odalan (Temple Ceremonies) and Rame (Full, Boisterous, Active) Spatial Orientation: Cycles of Time: Large-Scale Time
• Conclusion 2. Instruments: Materials, Tuning, and Timbre The Power of Bronze Tuning and Timbre The Waves of Paired Tuning: A Gamelan's Breath of Life Tuning Systems, Scales, and Notation Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Explosive Twentieth-Century Style Instrumen
• Conclusion 3. Interlocking and Layering: Musical Roles in the Ensemble The Musical Community of a Gamelan Sekaha The Stratified Texture of Gamelan: Simultaneous Melodies The Pokok (Basic Melody) Communal Elaboration: Interlocking Parts (Kotekan) Gangsa Ko
• Conclusion Putting the Layers Together 4. The World of Stories: Integration of Music, Dance, and Drama in Traditional Balinese Theater Playing the Past in the Present Genres in the Old Category: Sacred Ensembles: Genres in the Middle Category: The Hindu
• Conclusion 5. Characterization, Movement, and Gong Structures That Enliven Balinese Theater Aesthetics and Character Types: Halus (Refined) and Keras (Strong) Male, Female, and Androgynous Dance Styles Topeng (Masked Dance Drama) The Characters: Progressi
• Conclusion 6. Large-Scale Form in Gong Kebyar and Its Antecedents "Classical" Tripartite Form Three Contrasting Movements: Gineman: Metrically Free Preludes Listening to an Entire Piece: The Tripartite Form in "Sinom Ladrang" Innovations in Form and Textu
• Conclusion Traditional Arts in a Rapidly Changing World Arts Workshop/Studio Collectives (Sanggar) 7.
• Conclusion Three Themes Revisited at a Cremation Ceremony
• Glossary
• References Resources:
• Index