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MUSC 049 : Balinese Gamelan (SC)
Exploring:
Gamelan Semara Santi of Swarthmore College
Gamelan director, Tom Whitman
"Gamelan" in Grove Music Online
"Gamelan" in Wikipedia
A good overview. Be sure to look at the Further Reading and External Links sections.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
This organization, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is recognized internationally as “the finest Balinese gamelan ensemble outside of Indonesia.” Their website has good links to music, videos, articles, reviews, and recommended readings.
American Gamelan Institute
Offers links to their journal, podcasts, and other resources.
Finding Books and Recordings:
Tripod, Tri-College Catalog
Use Tripod (shared with Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) to find books and recordings such as the ones recommended below. Here are some searching hints:
- Keyword Searches: Start with words used to describe your topic. Try a variety of words and include the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to explore many possibilities, e.g. bali and gamelan.
- Subject Headings Searches: Tripod uses Library of Congress subject headings. They are not always intuitive. Instead of starting with a subject heading search you may want to start with a keyword search. Browse through the list of results until you find something that looks relevant to your research. Look through the description of the item to find "official" library terminology for the topic. You can then click on the links in Tripod labeled, "Subject" such as Music - Indonesia - Bali Island.
- Limiting Searches: You can limit searches in two ways. Before you begin searching you can choose a specialized area such as "Sound Recordings". Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
BAJRA
Publisher: [London?] : BAJRA & TVRI, [2004?]
Format: DVD.
Excellent video recordings from the Balinese and Javanese Research Archive.
Balinese Gamelan CDs in the Tri-Colleges
A customized Tripod search.
Finding Journal Articles:
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
International index to music periodicals
Provider: Chadwyck
Provides abstracts to music titles. Offers articles in full-text for over 80 periodicals. Covers all aspects of music including education, composition, theory and ethnomusicology. Covers 1874-present. Full-text begins in the mid-1990s-present.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.