Research Paper topic on Balinese Gamelan Assignment | Get Paper Help

The focus for this paper is to learn about Balinese gamelan music. My writing style is about college sophomore level so please try no to use too much advanced wording or vocab. I do not want my professor to get suspicious. The paragraphs should include a introduction to Bali music including origin and cultural background, characteristics of gamelan such as the musical instruments that are used, tuning, tempo and rhythm, musical techniques, music ensembles, how it is performed. Cultural context including religious ceremonial use of Balinese gamelan music (Gamelan Beleganjur). And also Balinese music in America.

Please use parenthetical in text citations. I will attach the instructor’s criteria and my outline for clarification on topics and subtopics for the body paragraphs. The outline also includes an annotated bibliography!. If you can as well, please fix any mistakes with the bibliography you see. I only have four sources so please find another credible source to use for this paper. If you feel any of my sources do not provide sufficient enough information or facts for any of the paragraphs, feel free to use another source of your choosing! Any other questions or concerns please let me know! Again, please try not to use too much advanced wording or vocab, thanks

World Music PAMU 332                                           Prof. Marsh

Research Paper Guidelines

 

Each student will write a Research Paper about a world music topic.  A list of possible research paper topics is posted on CI Learn.  You may choose from that list, or propose a different idea to your instructor.  We will only allow two research papers per topic, so reserve your research topic early.

Please make sure to read this entire Research Paper project guide very thoroughly to learn the specific requirements, the required number of sources, and the types of sources that are acceptable for this research paper.  These directions must be followed exactly.

 

RESEARCH PAPER DUE DATES:

• August 17^th: your individual research topic choice must be submitted by email.  Failure to submit your research topic on time will cost you one research paper grade point for each day of lateness!

 

• September 16^th: DUE: your research paper OUTLINE, SOURCES, and ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY – print this out, and hand it in at class on this date. (15% of research grade)

          (See the separate Guide document about creating a quality Outline and                          Annotated Bibliography.

 

• : Your research paper’s final version must be submitted electronically via the Turnitin submission link on CANVAS by 11:59pm.  (85% of research grade)  Only one submission is allowed.
  The Turnitin file submission link will close at precisely 11:59pm on   Absolutely NO late papers will be accepted, so you must submit your paper before that deadline.  Please submit your project EARLY to avoid the possibility of any internet connection problems, or server issues.

 

WORD COUNT & FORMATTING:

We will be doing MLA style formatting for all of our papers.  If you typically use Chicago style citations, you may use that system for this project.

The content section of your research paper will be at least 1,500 words in length.  This word count number does NOT include your title page, Works Cited page, or Annotated Bibliography.  Your formatting will be double-spaced lines, with Times New Roman, 12 pt. font used throughout the document.

 

SOURCES:

• At least FIVE scholarly, academic sources must be cited.
• At least one of these sources must be from a real book (Online sources alone will not be accepted).
• Our textbook does NOT count as one of your sources.

• Your Professor’s lectures and PowerPoints do not count as one of your sources.
• Make sure that all of your sources are very high-quality sources that would universally be considered to be acceptable for a serious academic research project.

The following link gives very good advice about how to CRITICALLY evaluate the authors of your sources.  Because we are only looking for high quality scholarly and academic sources, giving all of your sources this type of investigative appraisal is very important!  The internet contains a lot of poor quality, ill-informed, error-filled content.  So you will need to carefully evaluate each source that you use on your research paper, and make sure that it meets the criteria of being a high quality source that is worthy of serving as a reference source for an upper-division university research paper.

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/criticallyanalyzing​

 

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:  Each student will include an annotated bibliography, which lists, analyzes, and comments on each of the sources that you used in your research.  You may include a description of what you specifically learned from a particular source.

If you have not had experience with writing an annotated bibliography before, here are some links with examples of properly written annotated bibliographies.  Please read all the information in these links very carefully.  Please note that your annotations must contain your own thoughts and words.  Avoid plagiarism in your annotations.

 

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography  – Good information about annotated bibiliographies.  Be sure to look at the MLA example that is located halfway down that webpage.

 

This is another good link about annotated bibliographies, with an MLA example:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

 

In-Text CITATIONS:  You must include MLA style parenthetical in-text citations within your paragraphs to indicate the pages within your sources where you obtained specific information that would not commonly be known.  You must indicate where you found the information.  Start making a list of your citations and page numbers from the initial reading of your sources.

 

LINKS about writing proper Citations:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/

 

            http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/apa/citations

 

 

How to correctly cite different types of sources:

Book sources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/06/

Periodicals: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/07/

Electronic Sources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

Movies/DVDs/Interviews:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/09/

 

 

PROOFREADING:

Make sure to thoroughly proofread your paper several times to eliminate all the errors.  This Professor fully expects all students in these upper-division courses to write at the standard University junior year level, at the very least.  So make sure that every sentence is coherent, logical, and well constructed.  Poor grammar, improper spellings, faulty punctuation, improper citations, and illogical sentences will all very negatively affect your grade. If your writing skills are not up to par, please visit the Writing Center in our Library to get some special tutoring.

The TurnItIn application checks very carefully for plagiarism against many thousands of sources and student papers, so make sure to construct your paper by using your own words.  Learn how to paraphrase material.  When referencing sources or using quotations, make sure to cite those sources appropriately within the paragraphs.  Draw your own conclusions about your subject, based on the information that you have found. Then write your paper in your own words.  Plagiarism is a serious offense.  Any paper deemed unethical will be given a grade of zero and that student will be reported to the CSUCI Judicial Affairs department.

 

SONG TITLES: The key words in song titles are always capitalized, and are enclosed in quotation marks.  Example: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, “Rollin’ In the Deep”.  The titles of larger multi-part musical compositions are italicized.  Example:  Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder (a unified collection of many compositions.)  The titles of albums or CDs are capitalized and italicized.  Example: Kind of Blue. (A very famous Miles Davis album.)  See my “Writing About Music” PowerPoint, for more very important tips about writing.

 

Other Guidelines:

• If your research topic was discussed in the professor’s lectures and/or your textbook, you are expected to dig much deeper into the research of that subject, and write about ADDITIONAL details and musical figures that were not already covered in class. Don’t just regurgitate material that has already been presented in class.

 

• Write originally worded sentences based on your research.  Major point deductions will be made for papers that include more than 15% quoted material from outside sources.  The Turninit server shows the Instructor exactly how much of your paper has been lifted from existing published work, and from various websites.  Learn how to paraphrase and reword material in your own style.

 

• Some musical spellings are different than what you might expect. The low sounds in music, and the stringed instrument that produces low tones – is spelled bass, not base.  The thin, metallic discs that are part of a drum set are spelled cymbals, not symbols.

 

• Avoid vagueness in your writing. When making references to people, subjects, or things, be very specific and clear about what is it (or who it is) that you are referring to.  Avoid beginning a new paragraph with references to “it”, “he”, “her”, “his”, “she”, or “they”.  Also avoid using those same indirect references too many times within a paragraph.  State by name exactly who or what your subject is.  Also avoid many uses of the word “it” in your writing.  Beginning a sentences with “it” is almost always a bad idea because it introduces vagueness and non-clarity.  “It” is such a vague and non-specific word that it very quickly becomes problematic.  Avoided vagueness in your writing at all costs!

 

• If you need help with your writing, or if you typically have been downgraded in the past for grammar issues, please visit the Writing Center in our Library.  Go visit the Writing Center early in the semester, as they get very busier as the semester proceeds.

 

               Other very important writing hints and suggestions:

 

• Have a strong opening paragraph, with a thesis statement.  Your opening paragraph should summarize what your topic is about, and introduce some of the information you will be using to demonstrate your points. In other words, tell me what you will be telling me.

 

• In the body of your paper, use a few well-placed quotations and paraphrased material from a variety of research sources to back up your points and arguments.  The majority of the paper should consist of YOUR own thoughts, conclusions, and original statements.  Keep your quotations fairly short and concise.  We do not want to see extensive sections of quoted material that has just been cut and pasted.

 

• Make sure that your paragraphs and sentences make sense and flow logically. Avoid jumping around between several different subjects within one paragraph. Stay in the same tense (past, present, etc.) throughout the paragraph. When writing about events that have already taken place, use the past tense.

 

• Your paper should be clear, coherent and easy to read. Strive for CLARITY.  Reading your paper aloud to see if it makes sense.  That is the best way to discover problems in the writing.

 

• Get someone else (an outsider with good English grammar skills) to proofread your paper for sentence problems, grammar, spelling issues, sentence logic, etc. Those problems can really hurt the flow of a paper, and those errors will cost you valuable points.

 

• Have a strong closing paragraph. Summarize the information and points you made in the body of your paper.

 

• Don’t forget to include your annotated bibliography at the end of your report. Combine everything into ONE document to be submitted on Turnitin.
• Abel
  Tadesse
  Steven
  Marsh
  PAMU-33
  World Music Research Paper
  Outline
  I. Introduction of Bali
  A. Background of Balinese culture and
  tradition
  1. Hindu-Buddhist
  culture
  2. Balinese
  Music
  II. Characteristics of Gamelan
  A.
  Instrumentation
  1. Musical
  instruments
  2. Tuning
  B. Gamelan
  structure
  1. Music
  ensembles
  2. Notation
  III. Cultural Context
  A. Religious
  Ceremonies
  1. Gamelan
  Beleganjur
  IV. Influence on Western Music
  A. Western music and Gamelan
  integration.
  Tadesse
  2
  Annotated
  Bibliography
  Bkan, Michael B. “War of the Worlds: Music and Cosmological Battles in the
  Cremation
  Procession.” Yale Journal of Music & Religion (2016): 1-22. Vol 2: No. 2,
  Article 8.
  This article focuses on one of the aspects of Balinese Gamelan, gamelan beleganjur , a
  particular
  function of Balinese music that is used as a form of cosmological intervention in
  cremation
  processions. Bkan goes into great detail of the multiple functions of gamelan
  beleganhur ,
  including its origins and rituals. The article is based on data collected from
  research in Bali
  conducted between 1989 and
  1995.
  “Western Influence in Gamelan Music.” Traditional Music in Modern Java:
  Gamelan in a
  Changing Society , by Judith Becker, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu,
  1980, pp.
  66–77. JSTOR , www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9zcjt8.12. Accessed 4
  Apr. 2020.
  This article discusses the impact of western influence on Gamelan music and
  describes modern
  structures of Gamelan musical notation, cyclic forms , and changes in
  vocal styles.
  Additionally, this article lists examples of musical pieces of Western influenced
  Gamelan
  music and examines the key differences in notation and instrumentation from
  traditional
  Gamelan
  music.
  Covarrubias, Miguel. Island of Bali . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937, pp. 206-215.
  Print.
  This book is a famous research report on the Balinese culture and their civilization.
  Covarubius
  describes the geography and nature of the island, along with the history of the people,
  providing
  a thorough account of the community, family, and individual in all aspects of
  Balinese life.
  Tadesse
  3
  Becker, Judith. “One Perspective on Gamelan in America.” Asian Music 15.1
  (1983): 81-89.
  Print.
  <https://www.jstor.org/stable/833916>.cc3
  This article examines western influence on Gamelan and the controversial issue of
  whether or
  not the art form is being retaimed or tampered with for pesonal gain. Becker
  argues that
  American composers of Gamelan are more interested in using muiscal ideas from
  Balinese music
  for their own use instead of preserving the traditional art form of Gamelan.
  Furthermore, she
  discusses the the concept of bi-musicality and why institutions with music programs
  should use
  this approach
  more.
  McGraw, Andrew Clay. “Different Temporalities: The Time of Balinese Gamelan.”
  Yearbook
  for Traditional Music , vol. 40, 2008, pp. 136–162.
  JSTOR ,
  www.jstor.org/stable/20465071. Accessed 4 Apr.
  2020.
  This text describes in depth the tempo, musical meter, temporality, musical rhythm,
  musical
  ]first trip to Bali, Indonesia. In one of the sections of the text, he talks about how in
  Gamelan, the
  players do not use sheet music and instead immensely rehearse by ear and follow
  each others
  rthym and pattern during performance. Furthermore, he explains how this is the
  central core of
  Gamelan
  music.
  Tadesse
  4
  Tadesse
  5