CD track list -- First hearings. Introduction ; What is a Gamelan? ; Gamelan performance contexts in solo: life cycles and musical cycles ; Cyclicity and coincidence ; Music in the everyday ; Patronage and sociopolitical change ; Social status, language, and interaction ; Gamelan at the radio station ; Similarities and differences ; Categories and cross-cultural (mis)communication ; Conclusion: Three themes ; Flexibility of frameworks and processes ; Appropriateness ; Interconnectedness -- A sense of time. Making and marking musical time: gongs and drums ; Cyclicity and colotomic function ; Drumming ; Lancaran drum patterns ; Gongs, drums, and the flexibility of time -- Gamelan, tuning, and instrumental melody. Gamelan tunings ; Tuning systems: Sléndro and Pélog ; Gamelan instruments ; Instrumental melody ; Melody and elaboration ; Balungan, Peking, and Bonang ; "Landrang Asmaradana" -- Songs, singers, and Gamelan. Social aspects of singing ; Poetry, song, and Gamelan ; Conclusion --

Melodic elaboration and training in the arts. Rebab, Gendèr, and other elaborating instruments ; Céngkok, variation, and the transmission of musical knowledge -- Shadows and tales. Wayang in Pangkah Village ; Javanese shadow plays ; The stories and the telling: the main elements ; Physical setup ; Plots and plot sources ; Characters and character types ; Language and voice ; Movement patterns ; Dramatic structure: schemata of various sizes ; Conclusion -- Music for motion and emotion -Wayang Kulit. "Brajadenta Balela" ; Wayang repertoire ; Music for expressing emotion: Sulukan ; Music for accompanying motion: Gendhing Lampah ; Music for setting a scene: Gendhing ; Return to "Brajadenta Balela" ; Flexibility and appropriateness ; Conventions and innovations -- Java and beyond. Pak Cokro ; Interconnectedness: theater, dance, and music ; Educational institutions ; Regionalism and the dominance of Solonese style ; Java and the rest of Indonesia ; Java and the world ; Conclusion -- Glossary.