...Margaret J. Kartomi Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java . By R. Anderson Sutton . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xv, 291 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 225 Worcester makes the perfect subject...

...José S. Buenconsejo The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution . By Margaret J. Kartomi . Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester : University of Rochester Press , 2002 . xxii, 123 pp. CD. $75.00 (cloth). Copyright ©...

...Sean Williams Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java . By Judith Becker . Tempe : Arizona State University, Program for Southeast Asian Studies , 1993 . 222 pp. $24.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 246 THE JOURNAL...

...Margaret J. Kartomi A Javanese Gamelan: Traditional Orchestra of Indonesia . By Jennifer Lindsay . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . vi, 76 pp. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 793 for a paragraph about...

...Hardja Susilo Traditional Music in Modern Java: Gamelan in a Changing Society . By Judith Becker . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1980 . xvi, 254 pp. Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 410...

...Margaret Kartomi Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music . Vol. 2 . Edited by Judith Becker assisted by Alan H. Feinstein . Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia 30. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies , 1987 . xx...

...Roger Vetter Variation in Central Javanese Gamelan Music: Dynamics of a Steady State . By R. Anderson Sutton . Dekalb : Monographs on Southeast Asia, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University . 1993 . vi, 289 pp. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Joan M. Suyenaga Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music . Vol. 1. Edited by Judith Becker and Alan H. Feinstein . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies , 1984 . (Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, no. 23.) xviii...

...Ernst Heins Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music , vol. 3 . Edited by Judith Becker and Alan H. Feinstein . Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia 31. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for Southeast Asian Studies , 1988 . viii, 503 pp. $36.50...

... of Thai history and politics. Hence, it is a shame that the publisher included neither an index nor a bibliography. In subsequent editions, they should be added. CLARK D. NEHER Northern Illinois University A Javanese Gamelan: Traditional Orchestra of Indonesia. By J E N N I F E R LINDSAY. New York: Oxford...

... 693 of pieces, formal structures, a few aspects of music theory (e.g., pathet, or mode), and the music notation. Poerbatjaraka's "Raden Ina Plays Gamelan" (1957) discusses explanations of the term pathet as well as aspects of traditional Javanese etiquette when playing gamelan, followed by Ki...

... Anthropologists, historians, linguists, literature specialists, and political scientists who study Indonesia rarely read deeply in the ethnomusicology research about the country, even the literature on such famous sectors as Balinese gamelan music. Written with an awareness of that unfortunate situation...

... of sama, or connection with Allah through music. Chapter 1, "The Gamelan in Medieval Java," has as its focus the explanation of older usages of terms such as gendhing and gong, and a discussion of the use of gamelan in medieval Javanese ritual contexts. Chapter 2, '"Knowledge of Gamelan Revealed...

... are the “lighter” themes. He suggests that heaviness of theme is a strategy of text building found in classical Malaysian (Hikayat) texts, gamelan orchestra musical organization, and in calendric reckoning in much of Indonesia. He argues, in sum, for a method of writing that encourages grammatical description from...

... an impressive achievement altogether. PAUL HOCKINGS University of Illinois, Chicago SOUTHEAST ASIA Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music. Vol. 2. Edited by J U D I T H BECKER assisted by ALAN H . FEINSTEIN. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia 30. Ann Arbor: University...

... opportunities for other dalang , new innovations in musical accompaniment and developments in mass media technologies (cassettes, television broadcasts, and print media advertisements) further widened the division. The gamelan multilaras , a modern ensemble capable of playing seven different laras (tuning...

... director of the American Sekar Jaya gamelan's acclaimed tour of Bali and Java in 1985. His Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley is in music composition and he currently directs a gamelan and teaches courses in Western and non-Western music at Yale University. Ethnomusicologists...

... Studies. One BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1325 wishes that the second part of her identity had demanded greater scope in this useful but frustrating study. ANDREW J. ROTTER Colgate University The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It: An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution...

... in Process," explores the application of the structural approach of anthropology to the study of Javanese gamelan. Suyenaga describes gamelan musical structure and performance theory, but the real value of her work lies in the discussion of the constraints and expressions of individual freedoms within a well...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Lindsay's brief explanation as to why there are no standard forms of the two tuning systems of the gamelan {slendro and pelog) go straight to the heart of the matter. The reasons she gives for this lack of standardization are (i) historical, for Javanese tradition ruled...