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BIBLIOGRAPHY

INITIAL READINGS 
Cook, Simon.  1992.  Guide to Sundanese music.  Bandung. 
Cook, Simon.  2001.  “Sunda” in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 
(2nd edition). 
Fryer, Ruth M. 1989.  “Sundanese theory and practice in the performance of gamelan in 
Bandung, West Java.”  Ph.D. dissertation, Queen’s University, Belfast.  pp.18-85 
Harrell, Max Leigh.  1974.  “The music of the gamelan degung of West Java.”  Ph.D. 
dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.  pp.8-32 
Spiller, Henry. 2004 “Gamelan. The traditional sounds of Indonesia.” World Music Series
Swindells, Rachel.  1996.  “Flexible formulaity:  aspects of ornamentation and melodic 
embellishment on the Sundanese suling of West Java.”  M.A. dissertation.  City 
University, London. 
Swindells, Rachel.  2004.  “Klasik, Kawih, Kreasi: Musical Transformation and the Gamelan Degung of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.”  Ph.D Thesis.  City 
University, London.  
Williams, Sean.  “Sunda” in Garland Encyclopaedia of Music (pp.699 etc) 
 
COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY 

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. 
Cook, Simon.  2001.  “The song is the thing: patokan, alur lagu and the impact of the 
female vocal soloists on Sundanese Instrumental Music” in Contemporary Theatre 
Review 2001, vol.11, part 1:67-97 
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. 
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. 
Spiller, Henry. 2004 “Gamelan. The traditional sounds of Indonesia.” World Music Series
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. 
Swindells, Rachel.  2004.  “Klasik, Kawih, Kreasi:  Musical Transformation and the 
Gamelan Degung of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. 
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.  “Sunda” in Garland Encyclopaedia of Music (pp.699 etc) 

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