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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · 19h

"As I'm compiling a bibliography of primary sources about orchestras and ensembles of enslaved musicians I've decided to map their locations."

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · 1d

I keep forgetting to post on the micro-platforms. Here's the beginnings of a South Asian Music Theory & Treatises Bibliography I started last summer. Eventually I would like to include info and links to translations as well.

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Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble @sawpeep.bsky.social · 28d

Raqs Maqom: Dances & Music of Central & West Asia

Sun-Oct 19-2PM
World Affairs Council Lobby
223 S 5th St, Louisville

Free-limited seating; RSVP: worldaffairscouncilofkentucky-bloom.kindful.com/e/see-paw-ra...

Raqs Maqom: collaboration between Crescent Moon Dance Co. & Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Sep 9

Always makes me chuckle when r/musictheory mods just refer folks to r/GlobalMusicTheory. 😅

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some of my more scholarly work is contributing to the expansion of string pedagogy in surprising ways. Esteban Hernández Parra's recent dissertation "Resuena Abya Yala: Otherwise Practices in Bowed Strings Learning and Performance" cites 1 of my pieces abt slave orchestras!
hdl.handle.net/2022/33684

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'This is what cellist and researcher Jon Silpayamanant (2020) describes as “how Imperialism and the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific slave trade enriched European countries to the point that they could afford to create a music ecosystem with large scale and expensive orchestras, operas, and ballet companies which might not have emerged absent those conditions”'

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Aug 28

“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”

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“[T]he evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill”

“There is a landmark moment in which the evolution of the orchestra was brought to a standstill.” William Bolcom wrote in his 2013 “The Future of the Orchestra.”1 Later in t…

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Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble @sawpeep.bsky.social · Aug 24

Next Friday, Aug 29, we'll be at the World Affairs Council's inaugural WorldFest Kick-Off Reception. We hear it's already sold out, but you can come see us at WorldFest mainstage on Saturday at 3-4pm!

www.sawpeep.com/events/ @silpayamanant.bsky.social @divyakrthk.bsky.social

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Global Music Notation @globalmusnotation.bsky.social · Aug 24

Examples of bird songs from Simeon Pease Cheney's 1892 "Wood Notes Wild: Notations of Bird Music" (Cheney died in 1890, so this was published posthumously).

Images are from pages 39, 94, and 101. Cheney's book is downloadable here: archive.org/details/wood...

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Global Music Notation @globalmusnotation.bsky.social · Aug 24

200+ more entries added to the Timeline of Music Notation since the last update. 1700+ entries total now!

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A number of Korean notations; systems for animal songs (esp. for birds/whales); accordion/free reed tabs; & some dutar/fiddle/folk instr. tabs.

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 29

The original poster gave an example of adding a Pipa to an opera that he's writing.

Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 29

Love how the implication here is that there are "non-ethnic" instruments. It's the classic way to normalize supraethnic/macro-ethnic (e.g. Western/European instruments) phenomena as neutral and/or universal.

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From the composer community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the composer community

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 23

Open Access here: escholarship.org/uc/item/64k2...

"Historical evidence suggests that the fiddle may be one of the oldest uninterrupted instrumental traditions in African American culture, yet most people in the United States, including African Americans, do not identify it with Black music"

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 22

I guess we'll be hearing more from Timothy Jackson and the Journal of Schenkerian Studies going forward...

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Global Music Notation @globalmusnotation.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Score-type notation of Maibataraki made by an amateur musician, Tazaki Enjirō. Ōtsuzumi in blue, kotsuzumi in red, taiko in green and red, and the chanting text and nohkan’s shōga in black from right to left in a column."

noh.stanford.edu/music/notati...

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just added another 50+ entries to the Timeline of Music Notation the past couple of days which brings the total to over 1300 entries.

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Timeline of Music Notation

Jon Silpayamanant DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.22723760 Link: silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-music-notation PUBLISHED 2/4/2017; UPDATED 7/12/2025; (1345 entries) INTRODUCTIONTIMELINEBCE Music …

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 8

@kcommons.bsky.social
How do we login into our hcommons profile if the only login method was via twitter?

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jul 5

Listening to some Raag Malkauns to calm after the earlier barrage of sound...

www.chandraveena.com/blog/r25-mal...

Chandraveena | Raga Malkauns - The Calming Melody

Raga Malkauns is one of the oldest Ragas in Indian Classical Music. It is considered as one of the six principal Ragas in the Raga - Ragini classification of Ragas in Indian Classical Music.

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Jun 29

From Mark Slobin's 1993 "Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West" (page 30)

archive.org/details/subc...
www.weslpress.org/978081956261...

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Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble @sawpeep.bsky.social · May 29

Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble is so pleased to announce that we have been selected to be the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence for December 2025!

Learn more about the COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence program:
www.lfpl.org/lifelong-lea...

Learn more about past COLLIDER artists: www.lfpl.org/past-collide...

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · May 24

"Pu‘uwai Haokila: The Story of How Hawai‘i Shaped Modern Music"

www.pbshawaii.org/puuwai-haokila

"Narrated by Raiatea Helm, this PBS Hawai‘i documentary uncovers Hawaiʻi’s deep, global impact on modern music despite the political struggles they faced at home."

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ok, I watched the "Klingon Music Theory is Weird" video and it was "meh" but I did laugh when an image of me from a 2012 performance with Il Troubadore Klingon Music Project showed up in the vid (at the 25:27 mark)! 😂

Image of me as the Klingon Cellist/Xenomusicologist from an outdoor gig in 2012. A microphone is in front of my face and a cello neck and scroll can be seen in my left hand.

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Apr 18

Whatever happened to Shadia Mansour? This is still one of my favorite collabs she's done--"Sonos Sur" with Ana Tijoux!

youtu.be/EKGUJXzxNqc

Ana Tijoux - Somos Sur ft. Shadia Mansour (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Nacional Records

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Apr 13

It was great finally performing this after it was initially cancelled in April, 2020!

I opened the event with the Global Cello project performing works composers from Southeast Asia or of Southeast Asian descent!

www.silpayamanant.com/projects/glo...

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Apr 9

This is a companion piece for her "The New “Yellow Peril” in “Western” European Symphony Orchestras"

doi.org/10.1093/oso/...

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Jon Silpayamanant โจน ศิลปยามานันท @silpayamanant.bsky.social · Apr 8

Found a couple of my works cited in Maiko Kawabata's "Racism and Diversity in Orchestral Practice" which is the first chapter of the edited volume "East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music" (edited by Ken Ueno and Maiko Kawabata)!

ethicspress.com/products/eas...

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