Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2020

ECHOES FROM THE EAST: THE JAVANESE GAMELAN AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY KIYOSHI TAMAGAWA , PROFESSOR OF MUSIC LEXINGTON BOOKS Echoes from the East recounts Debussy’s experience with the music of Java at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 and traces its echoes through his compositional career. The book comments on the issue of cultural appropriation and surveys Debussy’s contemporaries and successors, who also attempted to merge the sounds of the gamelan with their own musical styles. PERSPECTIVE AND PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY FUMIKO FUTAMURA , LORD CHAIR IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE ANNALISA CRANNELL, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS AT FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE MARC FRANTZ, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN MATHEMATICS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Perspective and Projective Geometry introduces students to the ways that projective geometry applies to and is motivated by perspective art. Exploring pencil-and-paper drawings, photographs, Renaissance paintings, and GeoGebra constructions, this textbook equips students with the geometric tools for projecting a three-dimensional scene onto two dimensions through hands-on inquiry-learning modules. FA C U LT Y A N D A L U M N I B O O K S On the Shelves Frommusic, math, and mental and manual labor to politics and sports, here are just some of the books published by Southwestern faculty and staff in 2019. 34 SOUTHWESTERN