ISBN:
9789400934696
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
online resource
Edition:
Third, Enlarged Edition
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Science (General)
;
Anthropology.
;
Music.
Abstract:
of Volume I -- 1. General Introduction -- 2. Tone- and Scale-Systems -- 3. Historical Survey -- a. Before the advent of the Hindus -- b. Hindu-Java -- c. The post-Hindu period -- 4. Central and East Java -- a. Introduction -- b. Vocal music -- c. Instruments -- d. Orchestras -- e. Structure, nature and use of the dif ferent compositions -- f. Notation -- Chapters. West Java -- a. Introduction (a comparison of Sundanese with Javanese and Balinese music, both instrumental and vocal; the impression made on the Western mind; something about vocal music) -- b. Instruments -- c. Orchestras -- d. Forms of composition, and their use.
Abstract:
One day in the summer of 1921 a postal delivery brought me a little packet of reprints from the periodical "Djawa" : articles about Indonesian music by Dr. JAAP KUNST, which until that moment had not come to my notice. A cursory glance was enough to convince me that the author was a very gifted man, who had made a sound and absolutely scientific study of the subject, and thereby made a valuable contribution, by means of careful observation and actual tone-measurements, to the facts known from the older studies by GRONEMAN, LAND and ELLIS. These measure ments were particularly satisfying to me personally, since they constituted an astonishing confirmation of a hypothesis concerning the genesis of tone systems (through the "cycle of blown fifths"), which I had propounded two years previously, without, however, having published it. At the same time it was proved, through the perfect conformity existing between the measured and the theoretical absolute pitches (vibration frequencies), that Indonesian gamelan tuning, too, belongs to the radius of ancient Chinese culture - much the same as is the case with Pan-pipes and xylo phones all over· the world. The first contact between Dr. KUNST and myself led to a regular cor respondence, which especially contributed to a further development of the above-mentioned theory of tone-systems.
Description / Table of Contents:
of Volume I1. General Introduction -- 2. Tone- and Scale-Systems -- 3. Historical Survey -- a. Before the advent of the Hindus -- b. Hindu-Java -- c. The post-Hindu period -- 4. Central and East Java -- a. Introduction -- b. Vocal music -- c. Instruments -- d. Orchestras -- e. Structure, nature and use of the dif ferent compositions -- f. Notation -- Chapters. West Java -- a. Introduction (a comparison of Sundanese with Javanese and Balinese music, both instrumental and vocal; the impression made on the Western mind; something about vocal music) -- b. Instruments -- c. Orchestras -- d. Forms of composition, and their use.
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-3469-6
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