Unplayed melodies Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory / Marc Perlman.

Author/creator Perlman, Marc
Other author American Council of Learned Societies.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (xix, 254 p.)
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 227-243) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Unplayed melodies Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004. 0520239563 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021697056
ISBN9780520930490 ebook

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