Unplayed melodies [electronic resource] : Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory / Marc Perlman.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.Description: xix, 254 p. : musicISBN:- 0520239563 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520239562
- 9780520930490 (e-book)
- 781.2/4/095982 21
- ML345.J3 P46 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
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.
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