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Gamelan
- Indonesian ensemble consisting of:
- gongs, metallophones, and other
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- Bronze
• Unique names
• Unique tuning
• Court ensembles
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Gong Ageng
large Indonesian gong
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kempul
- small, Indonesian
- hanging gongs
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sléndro and pélog
- Indonesian
- mictrotonal scales
- ♦ sléndro: pentatonic (5-note) scale
- of somewhat equidistant intervals
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- pélog: heptatonic (7-note) scale of large and small intervals
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colotomic function/layer
- In
- music, colotomic refers to the use of specified instruments to mark off
- intervals of time; in gamelan, gongs perform this function
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balungan
- (lit. “skeleton”) - the basic/core melody
- played by some metallophones
- ♦ “elaboration” layer higher-pitched
- / faster-moving instruments that elaborate
upon or “fill-in” the balungan melody
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gènder and saron
- Indonesian
- metallophones (keyed instruments)
♦ gender – higher pitched
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bonang and kenong
- medium
- and small gongs, horizontally mounted on wooden racks
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pesinden
- solo
- female singers in an Indonesian gamelan
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rebab
- bowed
- spike fiddle of Middle Eastern origin, similar to the Chinese erhu.
- ♦ plays a short introduction to Puspawarna
- (Example 15) followed by the
entrance of the entire ensemble.
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kebyar (gamelan gong kebyar)
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- kebyar = “to burst into flame; to
- flower”
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kotekan
- kotekan –
- fast interlocking parts
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kempli
- Bali
- Gamelan instrument; single gong that plays a steady beat
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Kecak
- example 17; Kecak
- refers to the vocables (“tjak”) chanted by a large number of men
- representing the monkey army
- • enacts scene from Hindu
- epic, Ramayana
- • voices imitate: gongs
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- voices imitate: kempli
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- “Monkey Chant”
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- music from indigenous spirit possession ritual;
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