Benamou, Marc - Rasa

Rasa is the most thorough treatment to date of this all-important concept at the heart of Javanese aesthetics. Rasa encompasses not only affect, mood, and intuition, but also theories of musical perception and cognition, as well as meaning and expression in music.

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CONTENTS

Preface
Technical Notes
Chapter 1: The Musical Scene in Solo
Chapter 2: The Taste of Music: Rasaning Gendhing
Chapter 3: The Classification of Rasa Gendhing
Chapter 4: Having Rasa, Part 1: Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 5: Having Rasa, Part 2: Musicianship
Chapter 6: The Communication of Rasa, Part 1: General Considerations of Expression and Perception
Chapter 7: The Communication of Rasa, Part 2: Garap and Other Factors Contributing to Specific Rasas
Chapter 8: Why Rasa Talk Matters
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

Series	AMS Studies in Music