SELECT PUBLICATIONS ON SUNDANESE MUSIC
This list of publications compiled by Simon Cook of Sekar Enggal. Items in bold are particularly recommended.
Baier, Randall Emerson. 1986. "Si Duriat Keueung: the Sundanese angklung ensemble of West Java, Indonesia." M.A. thesis, Wesleyan University.
Buurman, Peter. 1988. Wayang golek: the entrancing world of classical [West] Javanese puppet theatre. Oxford University Press.
Cook, Simon. 1992. Guide to Sundanese music. Bandung.
Cook, Simon. 1993. "Parallel versions of tembang Sunda melodies in different tunings." in Oideion 1:55-84. Leiden.
DeVale, Sue Carole. 1989. "Gong forging in Bogor, West Java: the process through its soundscape." Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology 5:89-123.
Falk, Catherine. 1978. "The tarawangsa - a bowed instrument from West Java, in: Margaret Kartomi (ed.), Studies in Indonesian music. pp. 45-103. Monash University.
Foley, Kathy. 1979. "The Sundanese wayang golek: the rod puppet theatre of West Java." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii.
Fryer, Ruth M. 1989. "Sundanese theory and practice in the performance of gamelan in Bandung, West Java." Ph.D. dissertation, Queen's University, Belfast.
Harrell, Max Leigh. 1974. "The music of the gamelan degung of West Java." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
Harrell, Max Leigh. 1975. "Some aspects of Sundanese music." Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology 2-2: 80-101.
Heins, Ernst. 1977. "Goong renteng: aspects of orchestral music in a Sundanese village." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam.
Hermawan, Deni. 1994. "Gender issues in mythology, symbolism and performance of tembang Sunda Cianjuran in West Java, Indonesia: the role of female instruments and singers." M.A. paper, University of Washington.
Hermawan, Deni. 1994. "Sharing melodic phrases in the Sundanese gamelan degung." M.A. paper, University of Washington.
Hugh-Jones, Jonathan. 1982. "Karawitan Sunda: tradition newly writ; a survey of Sundanese music since Independence." Recorded Sound 82:19-34.
Jacobson, Edward, and J.H. van Hasselt. 1975 [1907] "The manufacture of gongs in Semarang" trans. Andrew Toth. Indonesia 19:127-152, plates.
Kunst, Jaap. 1973 [1934] Music in Java: its history, its theory, and its technique 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged by Ernst Heins. 2 vols. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Kusumadinata (Koesoemadinata), Raden Machjar Angga. 1969. Ilmu seni raras. Bandung: Pradnja Paramita.
Manuel, Peter and Randall E. Baier. 1986. "Jaipongan: indigenous popular music of West Java." Asian Music. 18(1):91-110
Natapradja, Iwan. 1971. "Karawitan Sunda" dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
North, Richard. 1988. "An introduction to the musical traditions of Cirebon" Balungan 3(3):2-6
Raffles, Thomas Stamford. 1978 [1817] The History of Java. 2 vols. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
Ricklefs, M.C. 1981 A history of Indonesia: c.1300 to the present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Rosidi, Ajip. 1973. "My experiences in recording pantun Sunda." Indonesia 16:105-11. Cornell University.
Stahl, Rae Ann. 1987. "Transformations in kacapi suling music" dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Suanda, Endo. 1981. "The social context of Cirebonese performing artists." Asian Music 13(1):27-42
Suanda, Endo. 1986. "Cirebonese topeng and wayang of the present day." Asian Music 16(2):84-120.
Sumarsam. 1975. "Inner melody in Javanese gamelan music." Asian Music 7(1):3-13.
Sutton, R. Anderson. 1984. "Who is the pesindhén? Notes on the female singing tradition in Java." Indonesia 37:118-131.
Sutton, R. Anderson. 1985. "Commercial cassette recording of traditional music in Java: implications for performers and scholars." World of Music 27(3):23-45.
Swindells, Rachel. 1996. "Flexible formulaity: aspects of ornamentation and melodic embellishment on the Sundanese suling of West Java." M.A. dissertation. City University, London.
van Zanten, Wim. 1989. Sundanese music in the Cianjuran style: anthropological and musicological aspects of tembang Sunda. Dordrecht: Foris.
van Zanten, Wim. 1995. "Notation of music; theory and practice in West Java." in Oideion 2:209-234. Leiden.
Weintraub, Andrew. 1990 "The music of pantun Sunda: an epic narrative tradition of West Java, Indonesia." M.A. dissertation, University of Hawaii.
Weintraub, Andrew. 1993. "Theory in institutional pedagogy and 'theory in practice' for Sundanese gamelan music." Ethnomusicology 37(1):29-39.
Weintraub, Andrew. 1997 "Constructing the popular: superstars, performance, and cultural authority in Sundanese wayang golék purwa of West Java, Indonesia." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
Williams, Sean. 1990. "Current developments in Sundanese popular music." Asian Music. 21:1.
Williams, Sean. 1990. "The urbanization of tembang Sunda." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
Williams, Sean. 1998. "Sunda (Java)" In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol 4: Southeast Asia, ed. Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams, pp. 699-725. New York: Garland.
Western CDs only
Celestial Harmonies. 1996. "Tembang Sunda" (Ida Widawati, Lingkung Seni Malati) [website: http:www.harmonies.com]
Electra/Nonesuch - Warner (979 173-2). "Idjah Hadidjah: Tonggeret (Jaipong)"
GMEM - EI 08. 1998. "Matjapat Songs" (Patrick Portella) et "Candra Puspita" (Ensemble de musique traditionelle du pays Sunda) [French contemporary work + celempungan] [website: http://mars.imt-mrs.fr/gmem]
Ocora Radio France. "Java - pays Sunda: musiques savantes 2 - L'art du gamelan degung"
Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. 1994. "Music of Indonesia 5. Betawi and Sundanese music of the north coast of Java: Topeng Betawi, Tanjidor, Ajeng."
Topic World Series. 1970. "Flutes and gamelan music of West Java" directed by Suryabrata [=Bernard IJzerdraad] [kacapi suling and gamelan saléndro]
Unesco - Auvidis (D8041)." Indonesia: Music from West Java (Anthology of traditional Musics)"
Unesco - Auvidis (D8051). "Java: Sundanese folk music (Musics & Musicians of the World)"
Wayang Golék: Performing arts of Sunda (West Java),
OU Worldwide ETHNO VC2. (1999).