gamelan.md

Gamelan

Example albums

• Javanese gamelan
• Balinese gamelan
• Sundanese gamelan

Intro into Javanese gamelan

• My handout that analyzes one four-track piece
• Three iramas notated for Lancaran Manyar Sewu
• Jo Hilder. Central Javanese Gamelan – A concise reference
• Tutorials on the "Indra production" channel

Misc

• Marc Perlman. Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory

• Leslie A. Tilley. Making It Up Together: The Art of Collective Improvisation in Balinese Music and Beyond

• gamelan.org, Balungan

• "The concept of pathet in Central Javanese gamelan music", paper.

• Karawitan: Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music (three volumes)

• Larry Polansky. Beginning Central Javanese Gender

• Institutional Repository

• Review links from here

• R. Anderson Sutton. Humor, Mischief, and Aesthetics in Javanese Gamelan Music and other articles

• Chapter 10 on gamelan in TTSS

• https://zenodo.org/record/7088369#.ZDZ92hCEbi0

• 🎥 Narno Suseno. Singing lessons

• https://celanajaya.github.io/vGamelan/

• https://github.com/zhejny/webaudio-kendang-metronome

• Henry Spiller. Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia

• 🎥 Indra Production - Youtube Tutorials

• E-gamelan Android App

• https://music.arts.uci.edu/abauer/148_2018/

Sundanese gamelan

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/834075
• Nano Suratno

Modern pieces for gamelan

• Musica Coniuncta and https://gamelan.gs/
• Rats of Oran: gamelan + metal
• Dewa Alit - A modern Balinese composer born in 1973. A lecture on his piece
• Google "debussy gamelan"

Play

Find a gamelan ensemble in your city, come and learn to play it. You can instantly start playing saron and then gradually expand your skills.

• 🇷🇺 В Москве можно прийти научиться в Gamelan Dadali

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan_outside_Indonesia

Free gamelan samples

• https://jsimonvanderwalt.com/2020/12/14/gamelan-samples/
• https://github.com/celanajaya/kotekanator
• https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Free_sound_samples