Strange Flowers: Cultivating new music for gamelan on British soil

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This thesis explores new music created for gamelan in Britain, focusing primarily upon works for Javanese gamelan. It explores the historical conditions and human motivations which have made composition for gamelan such a distinctive part of the UK scene, and explores the range of works created through a series of taxonomical spectra.

It considers how composers writing for gamelan in the UK situate themselves amongst the transcultural influences they are at play with in their composition. This is explored through a variety of lenses: looking at how composers use, avoid or mix musical structures associated with gamelan and those from other systems; whether or not they draw upon creative processes and methods of transmission associated with traditional gamelan music; and what happens when gamelan instruments are combined with those from other systems or with electronically-generated sound.

It also explores narratives of authenticity and hybridity, and the interrelationship between British gamelan composition and the wider cultural scene. It questions the extent to which the British gamelan scene is distinct from other international gamelan communities, and the extent to which it is not, suggesting that the appearance of difference is in fact more of an inflection, coloured by local conditions, history and individuals, but nevertheless an expression of the same contemporary trans-state cosmopolitan flows (Turino 2003) that characterise gamelan cultures around the world.

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Supervisors:	Sorrell, Neil
Keywords:	Gamelan, Britain, Britain, Java, Indonesia, composition, music, hybridity, trans-state, cosmopolitan, international, transmission, creativity, intercultural, authenticity, Britishness, cross-cultural, fusion
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Academic unit:	Music
Identification Number/EthosID:	uk.bl.ethos.617271
Depositing User:	Miss Ginevra House
Date Deposited:	10 Sep 2014 14:27
Last Modified:	01 Jan 2021 01:19
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:6793

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Doctoral thesis of Ginevra House

R-5.1 Campion, Overy Dunes

R-5.2 Wilkinson, Fullstop

R-5.3 Van der Walt, Gamelunk

R-5.4 Campion, Miniature

R-5.5 Clare Ngesti

R-5.6a Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6b Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6c Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6d Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6e Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6f Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6g Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6h Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6i Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-5.6j Wullur, 10 Bulls

R-A.1 Roth, Full Fathom Five

R-B.1 Sorrell, Missa Gongso

R-C.1 March, Pieces of 5 & 3, tumbuk 6

R-C.2 March, Pieces of 5 & 3, tumbuk 5

R-D.1 Wilkinson, English Garden

R-E.1 Smith et al Iron Pipes

R-F.1 Jacobs, Fair Roses

R-G.1 Channing, Pig in the Kraton!

R-H.1 House, Waterlily

R-I.1 Harrison, Concerto for piano and gamelan Si Betty

R-I.2 Harrison, Concerto for piano and gamelan Sekar Petak

R-I.3 Wilkinson, a long way of seeing

R-I.4a Sorrell, Concerto mvt 1

R-I.4b Sorrell, Concerto mvt 2

R-I.4c Sorrell, Concerto mvt 3

R-J.1 Campion, My Mother's House

R-K.1 Clarke, Three Exits

R-L.1 Parry, Fuzzy Logic

R-M.1a Matthews, Augmented Gamelan 1

R-M.1b Matthews, Augmented Gamelan 2

SA1 Roth, Full Fathom Five

SB1a Sorrell, Missa Gongso gamelan Kyrie

SB1b Sorrell, Missa Gongso Kyrie choir

SC2 March, Pieces of 5 & 3 tumbuk 5

SD1 Wilkinson, English Garden

SE1 Smith et al, Iron Pipes

SF1 Jacobs, Fair Roses

SH1 House, Waterlilly

SI1 Wilkinson, A long way of seeing, piano

SI2 Harrison, Piano concerto mvt 1

SI3 Sorrell, Prepared piano concerto mvt 1

SJ1 Campion, My Mother's House

SK1 Clarke, Three Exits

SC1 March, Pieces of 5 & 3 tumbuk 6

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