xix, 172 p. : 22 cm. +

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-166) and index

1. First hearings -- What is a gamelan? -- Gamelan performance contexts in solo : life cycles and musical cycles -- Cyclicity and coincidence -- Music in the everyday -- Patronage and sociopolitical change -- Similarities and differences -- Categories and cross-cultural (mis)communication -- Conclusion : three themes -- 2. A sense of time -- Making and marking musical time : gongs and drums -- Drumming -- Gongs, drums, and the flexibility of time -- 3. Gamelan, tuning, and instrumental melody -- Gamelan tunings -- Tuning systems : Slendro and Pelog -- Gamelan instruments -- Instrumental melody -- Melody and elaboration -- 4. Songs, singers, and gamelan -- Social aspects of singing -- Poetry, song, and gamelan -- 5. Melodic elaboration and training in the arts -- Rebab, gender, and other elaborating instruments -- Cengkok, variation, and the transmission of musical knowledge -- 6. Shadows and tales -- Wayang in Pangkah village -- Javanese shadow plays -- The stories and the telling : the main elements -- 7. Music for motion and emotion - Wayang Kulit -- "Brajadenta Balela" -- Wayang repertoire -- Return to "Brajadenta Balela" -- Flexibility and appropriateness -- Conventions and innovations -- 8. Java and beyond -- Pak Cokro -- Interconnectedness : theater, dance, and music -- Educational institutions -- Regionalism and the dominance of Solonese style -- Java and the rest of Indonesia -- Java and the world

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