SOAS Research Online

Widdess, Richard, Mukherji, Somangshu and Peiris, Eshantha, eds. (2024) Analytical Approaches to Music of South Asia, Volume 1 (2023). New York: International Foundation for Theory and Analysis of World Music.

Widdess, Richard, Sowa, Anna and Sowa, Remi (2022) Gũlā: Music of a Sacred Time. University of the West of England, Bristol. Available from https://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-12-2/gul....

Holzapfel, Andre, Benetos, Emmanouil, Killick, Andrew and Widdess, Richard (2022) 'Humanities and Engineering Perspectives on Music Transcription:.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 37 (3). pp. 747-764.

Popescu, Tudor, Widdess, Richard and Rohrmeier, Martin (2021) 'Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study.' Scientific Reports, 11. p. 3112.

Widdess, Richard (2020) 'Lokapañca: Analysing Structure, Performance and Meanings of a Temple Song in Nepal.' In: Borio, Gianmario, Giuriati, Giovanni, Cecchi, Alessandro and Lutzu, Marco, (eds.), Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections. London: Routledge, pp. 220-234. (Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century)

Widdess, Richard, Finkensiep, Christoph and Rohrmeier, Martin (2019) 'Modelling the Syntax of North Indian Melodies With a Generalized Graph Grammar.' Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2019. pp. 462-469.

Widdess, Richard (2019) 'Time Changes: Heterometric Music in South Asia.' In: Wolf, Richard, Blum, Stephen and Hasty, Christopher, (eds.), Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-313.

Widdess, Richard (2018) 'World Music: Historical Dimensions.' In: Lawson, Colin and Stowell, Robin, (eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 693-695.

Rohrmeier, Martin and Widdess, Richard (2017) 'Incidental Learning of Melodic Structure of North Indian Music.' Cognitive Science, 41 (5). pp. 1299-1327.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'North India.' In: Church, Michael, (ed.), The other classical musics: fifteen great traditions. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 139-159.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Text, Orality, and Performance in Newar Devotional Music.' In: Orsini, Francesca and Schofield, Katherine Butler, (eds.), Tellings and Texts: Music, Literature and Performance in North India. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Widdess, Richard (2015) 'Pulling chariots, singing songs: Musical structure, performance and cultural meaning in a dāphā song from Nepal.' Cultural Musicology iZine [Online].

Widdess, Richard (2014) 'Orality, writing and music in South Asia.' Musicology Today, 19.

Widdess, Richard (2013) Dāphā: Sacred singing in a South Asian city. Music, performance and meaning in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Abingdon: Routledge. (SOAS Musicology Series)

Widdess, Richard (2013) 'Schemas and improvisation in Indian music.' In: Kempson, Ruth, Howes, Christine and Orwin, Martin, (eds.), Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications, pp. 197-209.

Widdess, Richard (2012) 'Music, meaning and culture.' Empirical Musicology Review, 7 (1–2).

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Dynamics of melodic discourse in Indian music: Budhaditya Mukherjee’s ālāp in rāg Pūriyā-Kalyān.' In: Tenzer, Michael and Roeder, John, (eds.), Analytical and cross-cultural studies in world music. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 187-224.

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Dāphā: dancing gods, virtual pilgrimage and sacred singing in Bhaktapur, Nepal.' Musike, 5/6. pp. 55-79.

Widdess, Richard (2011) 'Implicit Rāga Knowledge in the Kathmandu Valley.' Analytical Approaches to World Music, 1 (1).

Widdess, Richard (2010) 'Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007.' In: Johnston, Ron, (ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 226-255.

Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Musical Structure, Performance and Meaning: the Case of a Stick-Dance from Nepal.' Ethnomusicology Forum, 15 (2). pp. 179-213.

Nooshin, L. and Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Improvisation in Iranian and Indian music.' Journal of the Indian Musicological Society, 36–37. pp. 104-119.

Widdess, Richard (2006) 'Rāga.' London: Centre of South Asian Studies, SOAS.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2005) 'Musical miniatures from Nepal: two Newar ragamalas.' In: Pal, Pratapaditya, (ed.), Nepal: Old Images, New Insights. Bombay: Marg Publications, pp. 81-91.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2004) 'Musical Miniatures from Nepal: Two Newar Ragamalas.' Marg. A Magazine of the Arts, 56 (2). pp. 28-39.

Widdess, Richard (2004) 'Caryā and Cacā: Change and Continuity in Newar Buddhist Ritual Song.' Asian Music, 35 (2). pp. 7-41.

Widdess, Richard and Sanyal, R. (2004) Dhrupad. Tradition and Performance in Indian Music. Farnham: Ashgate.

Widdess, Richard (2003) 'Time, space and music in the Kathmandu Valley.' Newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies, 32. p. 32.

Widdess, Richard (2001) 'India, III: Theory and practice of classical music.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 170-210.

Widdess, Richard (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: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan.

Widdess, Richard and Wegner, Gert-Matthias (2001) 'Nepal, Kingdom of, I. Music in the Kathmandu Valley.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 757-760.

Widdess, Richard and Duran, Lucy (2001) 'Picken, Laurence.' In: Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John, (eds.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan, pp. 718-719.

Widdess, Richard and Ruckert, G. (2000) 'Hindustani raga.' In: Arnold, A., (ed.), The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 5: South Asia, the Indian subcontinent. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., pp. 64-88.

Widdess, Richard (1995) The Ragas of Early Indian Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Widdess, Richard (1994) 'Involving the Performers in Transcription and Analysis: A Collaborative Approach to Dhrupad.' Ethnomusicology, 38 (1). pp. 59-80.

Basra, Khalid and Widdess, Richard (1989) 'Dhrupad in Pakistan: the Talwandi gharana.' Dhrupad Annual, 4. pp. 1-10.