Rasa : affect and intuition in Javanese musical aesthetics
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Rasa : affect and intuition in Javanese musical aesthetics
（AMS studies in music）
Oxford University Press, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-280) and index
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Description
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and sociological distinctions enter into this determination? How is the vocabulary of
rasa structured, and what does this tell us about traditional Javanese music and aesthetics?
In this first book on the subject, Rasa provides an entry into Javanese music as it is conceived by the people who know the tradition best: the musicians themselves. In one of the most thorough explorations of local aesthetics to date, author Marc Benamou argues that musical meaning is above all connotative - hence, not only learned, but learnable. Following several years performing and researching Javanese music in the regional and national cultural center of Solo, Indonesia, Benamou untangles
the many meanings of rasa as an aesthetic criterion in Javanese music, particularly in court and court-derived gamelan traditions. While acknowledging that certain universal psychological tendencies may inspire parallel interpretations of musical meaning, Rasa demonstrates just how culturally
specific such accrued, shared meanings can be.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- TECHNICAL NOTES
- APPENDIX A: CLASSIFICATIONS OF RASA GENDHING FROM ORAL AND WRITTEN SOURCES
- APPENDIX B: HOW IRAMA WORKS
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES
- CORPUS: WORKS HAVING CITATIONS OF RASA TERMS AS USED BY JAVANESE EXPERTS IN MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS
- GENERAL WORKS
- DISCOGRAPHY OF RECORDINGS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT
- INDEX
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