Gamelan gong kebyar. The art of twentieth-Century balinese Music

The author offers a comprehensive and durable sutyd of his sophisticated musical tradition, focusing on the preeminent twentieth-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar. Combinging the tools of the composer, performer, anthropologist and music theorists, Tenzer moves fluidly between ethnography and technical discussions of mucisal composition and structure, and his rigorous application of music theory and analysis to a non-western orchestral genre is wholly original.