References

Websites

See and hear kotekan and how it works at www.balibeyond.com/gamelan.html

See kotekan notation using the pentatonic scale 123 56 (CDE GA) at www.ancient-future.com/kotekan.html See and hear the interlocking patterns called chandetan, tutugan, ochetan and semi-ochetan.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya, an American gamelan group www.gsj.org Click on Interactive Media under Library and then Gong Kebyar Interactive. By clicking on each section you can build the layers of sound to find out how the Balinese gamelan works.

Colin McPhee Collection: archive and silent films. Colin McPhee first heard Balinese gamelan in the 1930s and later lived in Bali while collecting and transcribing gamelan. www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/Archive/mcphee.htm

Another American gamelan group www.galaktika.org

Sekaa Gong Tirta Sinar based in Sydney Australia
http://geocities.com/sekaagong/

Books

Herbst, Edward Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, 1997

McPhee, Colin A House in Bali Oxford University Press, London, 1947 Third impression 1984

McPhee, Colin Music in Bali Yale University Press, New Haven, 1966

McPhee, Colin Balinese Ceremonial Music Chappell & Co Ltd (gamelan transcriptions)

Sorrell, Neil Balinese Music in Graham Vulliamy and Ed Lee Pop, Rock and Ethnic Music in School Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982

Tenzer, Michael Balinese Music Periplus Editions, Hong Kong, 1998

Vickers, Adrian Bali A Paradise Created Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood 1989