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Article: Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory.(Book review)
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Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory. By Marc Perlman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. [xix, 254 p. ISBN 0-520-23956-3. $49.95.] Music examples, index, bibliography.
Based on seven years of fieldwork in central Java over the last twenty-five years, Unplayed Melodies documents Marc Perlman's quest to find answers to some of the most vexing questions that have preoccupied Javanese musician-theorists and non-Javanese music scholars alike. To answer these questions, Perlman became a formidable gamelan musician in his own right as well as a sophisticated theorist of the music. Not only did he work closely with some of the ...