PROF Richard Widdess' Outputs (15)

Endangered songs in the Kathmandu Valley: Performance, history and patterns of culture (2024)
Book Chapter
Widdess, D. (2024). Endangered songs in the Kathmandu Valley: Performance, history and patterns of culture. In N. Thieberger, A. Harris, S. Treloyn, & M. Turpin (Eds.), Keeping Time: Dialogues on music and archives in honour of Linda Barwick (123-143). Sydney University Press

Lokapañca: Analysing Structure, Performance and Meanings of a Temple Song in Nepal (2020)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2020). Lokapañca: Analysing Structure, Performance and Meanings of a Temple Song in Nepal. In G. Borio, G. Giuriati, A. Cecchi, & M. Lutzu (Eds.), Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (220-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429026461-19

The song Lokapañca belongs to the repertoire of a group of temple singers in the town of Bhaktapur, in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Such songs can be considered both as artefacts and as performance processes. The text and melody of Lokapañca can be c... Read More about Lokapañca: Analysing Structure, Performance and Meanings of a Temple Song in Nepal.

Time Changes: Heterometric Music in South Asia (2019)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2019). Time Changes: Heterometric Music in South Asia. In R. Wolf, S. Blum, & C. Hasty (Eds.), Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm (273-313). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190841485.003.0012

The chapter examines a distinction between isometric music, in which successive metrical cycles are of equal length, and heterometric music, where the length and structure of the cycle can change. In South Asia, most music is isometric. In the classi... Read More about Time Changes: Heterometric Music in South Asia.

World Music: Historical Dimensions (2018)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2018). World Music: Historical Dimensions. In C. Lawson, & R. Stowell (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (693-695). Cambridge University Press

North India (2015)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2015). North India. In M. Church (Ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions (139-159). Boydell Press

A contribution to a multi-author volume characterising the "classical" music traditions of the world. The chapter covers North Indian classical music as a form of knowledge and practice, the principal theoretical concepts, the historical and social c... Read More about North India.

Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music (2015)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2015). Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music. In F. Orsini, & K. B. Schofield (Eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0062.08

Dāphā bhajan is a style of devotional song performance practised by Newar men in the towns of the Kathmandu Valley. Although it is now primarily the farming community who maintain it, it originated in the court culture of the Newar kings in the 17th... Read More about Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.

Schemas and improvisation in Indian music (2013)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2013). Schemas and improvisation in Indian music. In R. Kempson, C. Howes, & M. Orwin (Eds.), Language, Music and Interaction (197-209). College Publications

Indian classical musicians, like jazz musicians, display impressive ability to perform with an apparent fluency and spontaneity resembling that of normal speech. It has been suggested that this appearance of spontaneity, often labelled “improvisation... Read More about Schemas and improvisation in Indian music.

Dynamics of melodic discourse in Indian music: Budhaditya Mukherjee’s ālāp in rāg Pūriyā-Kalyān (2011)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2011). Dynamics of melodic discourse in Indian music: Budhaditya Mukherjee’s ālāp in rāg Pūriyā-Kalyān. In M. Tenzer, & J. Roeder (Eds.), Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music (187-224). Oxford University Press

Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 (2010)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2010). Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007. In R. Johnston (Ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IX (226-255). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264751.001.0001

Musical miniatures from Nepal: two Newar ragamalas (2005)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R., & Wegner, G.-M. (2005). Musical miniatures from Nepal: two Newar ragamalas. In P. Pal (Ed.), Nepal: Old Images, New Insights (81-91). Marg Publications

Picken, Laurence (2001)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R., & Duran, L. (2001). Picken, Laurence. In S. Sadie, & J. Tyrrell (Eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition (718-719). Macmillan

Nepal, Kingdom of, I. Music in the Kathmandu Valley (2001)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R., & Wegner, G.-M. (2001). Nepal, Kingdom of, I. Music in the Kathmandu Valley. In S. Sadie, & J. Tyrrell (Eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition (757-760). Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42916

India, III: Theory and practice of classical music (2001)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2001). India, III: Theory and practice of classical music. In S. Sadie, & J. Tyrrell (Eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition (170-210). Macmillan

Kirtana [and] Thumri [and] Dhrupad [and] Tala [and] Raga [and] Sruti [and] Sangita [and] Rasa [and] Gharana [and] Gat [and] Alapa [and] Kriti [and] Khayal (2001)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R. (2001). Kirtana [and] Thumri [and] Dhrupad [and] Tala [and] Raga [and] Sruti [and] Sangita [and] Rasa [and] Gharana [and] Gat [and] Alapa [and] Kriti [and] Khayal. In S. Sadie, & J. Tyrrell (Eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. Macmillan

Hindustani raga (2000)
Book Chapter
Widdess, R., & Ruckert, G. (2000). Hindustani raga. In A. Arnold (Ed.), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 5: South Asia, the Indian subcontinent (64-88). Garland Publishing Inc