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	Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival (YGF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This year's Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival was held from 2--6 July 1997 as part of the month-long Yogyakarta Arts Festival, an annual province-wide event in Yogyakarta, a cultural center of Central Java and the 13,000 islands that comprise the nation of Indonesia itself.
		In recognition of their abilities and of those attained by other gamelan players from England, Japan, Australia, Scotland and the United States, the Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta invited all these participants to play together on a gamelan located inside the palace in Yogyakarta, for which occasion all were required to don ceremonial dress.
		To gamelan instruments whose tuning was variously expressed by listeners as E minor, E Aeolian or G major, Kyai Kanjeng added Islamic songs, various drums, an accordion, a drum set, tape recorders and a vigorous, deep-seated energy arranged by two creative young musical directors, Setyaji Dewanto and Setyanto Prajoko.
	gamelanfestival.gayam16.net /YGFAGI.htm (3104 words)

	Gamelan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gamelan orchestras are common to the islands of Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok (and other Sunda Islands) in Indonesia in a wide variety of ensemble sizes and formations.
		Although gamelan ensembles sometimes include solo and choral voices, plucked and/or bowed string and wind instruments, they are most notable for the large number of percussion instruments, particularly metal percussion instruments.
		In addition, there are gamelan ensembles composed entirely of bamboo-keyed instruments, of bamboo flutes, of zithers, or of unaccompanied voices with the functions of metallophones or gongs in the metal ensemble transferred to surrogates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamelan (1361 words)

	Gamelan
		Gamelan is an ensemble that consists of predominantly metallophone and gong type instruments.
		In a full set of gamelan, besides metallophones and gongs, there are other types of instruments, which include a set of drums (kendhang), bowed- and plucked-strings (rebab and celempung), xylophone (gambang), and a bamboo flute (suling).
		Wesleyan's first gamelan, an iron set of instruments, was donated in the early 1960s by the late Harrison Parker (a connoisseur of Javanese performing arts who used to work for USAID in Jakarta).
	learningobjects.wesleyan.edu /vim/cgi-bin/print.cgi?&id=30 (1066 words)

	Encyclopedia: American gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		American Gamelan is a style of gamelan based on Javanese gamelan instruments and music, but using primarily American made instruments and compositions.
		The first American Gamelan group was created by Murphy at Goddard College in Vermont in 1967.
		A New Gamelan, audio recording of Lou Harrison and William Colvig describing the theory and construction of one of the first American Gamelans, followed by a performance on it (free registration required at RadiOM)
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-gamelan (454 words)

	D.Schmidt.html
		Gamelan doesn't have to be bound by that strict four-beat structure.
		I chose the lowest note of the gamelan to be the lowest gong tone, and drew the rest of the pitches from the harmonic series of that tone.
		Daniel Schmidt is one of the most active builders of American gamelan; the photographs in the article show some, but not all, of instruments that he has built.
	o-art.org /history/77-83/instBuilders/D.Schmidt.html (2458 words)

	Title
		Seminal American gamelan Other Music is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its inception with a reunion performance as part of the eighth concert in The Just Intonation Network's 20th Anniversary concert series.
		Among the group's influences are the gamelan of Java and Bali, the intonational theories of Harry Partch and Lou Harrison, European modal polyphony and the American experimental tradition.
		She is director of the American Gamelan Institute (www.gamelan.org), co-director of Frog Peak Music (a composers' collective) and on the faculty of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Dartmouth College.
	www.justintonation.net /concert_08.html (845 words)

	G16 Product 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Karawitan and gamelan art found in Yogyakarta, with the Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Palace as its base, hold a big potential and is considered as one of the gamelan centers in the world,.
		This may be a reason, or even an obligation of todays generation, esp. gamelan lovers from all around the world, to present activities in connection to gamelan music on a global scale.
		There are a lot of varieties of gamelan art that can be viewed and listened to, statements from lectures that can be either agreed or disagreed with, and all sorts of community dynamics in a the kind of forum which takes in material from cultural happenings of gamelan life.
	www.gayam16.net /YGF/prod03.htm (2278 words)

	TRANCE GONG: GAMELAN PACIFICA
		Gamelan Pacifica was formed in 1980 and is directed by composer Jarrad Powell.
		Gamelan Pacifica currently uses three sets of instruments: an iron and bronze set in Central Javanese style; a bronze set in Cirebon style; and an American gamelan made of aluminum.
		The diversity of gamelan styles in Indonesia as well as in other countries proves this to be a vital and constantly changing form of musical expression; some of the extended instrumentation heard here, such as the use of Roto-Toms, xiao-bo, or even electronic processing, can be seen as part of this evolving concept of gamelan.
	www.oodiscs.com /oo37.html (535 words)

	Javanese Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The GAMELAN is a large ensemble of bronze keyed instruments and gongs, plus a xylophone, bowed lute, zither, and flute.
		Gamelan music is highly polyphonic, with a wide expressive and dynamic range.
		Oberlin's Javanese Gamelan is a full double gamelan, meaning that it includes two sets of instruments, one tuned to SLENDRO, with 5 tones widely spaced, and the other to PELOG, with 7 tones unevenly spaced.
	www.oberlin.edu /faculty/rknight/Gamelan.html (413 words)

	Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival (YGF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This year's Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival was held from 2--6 July 1997 as part of the month-long Yogyakarta Arts Festival, an annual province-wide event in Yogyakarta, a cultural center of Central Java and the 13,000 islands that comprise the nation of Indonesia itself.
		In recognition of their abilities and of those attained by other gamelan players from England, Japan, Australia, Scotland and the United States, the Sultan Hamengkubuwono X of Yogyakarta invited all these participants to play together on a gamelan located inside the palace in Yogyakarta, for which occasion all were required to don ceremonial dress.
		To gamelan instruments whose tuning was variously expressed by listeners as E minor, E Aeolian or G major, Kyai Kanjeng added Islamic songs, various drums, an accordion, a drum set, tape recorders and a vigorous, deep-seated energy arranged by two creative young musical directors, Setyaji Dewanto and Setyanto Prajoko.
	www.gayam16.net /YGF/YGFAGI.htm (3104 words)

	Bang a Gong -- Gamelan Turns 20 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		More than contributing to the body of gamelan music, Gamelan Sekar Jaya has helped revolutionize it, even in Bali, where the El Cerrito group has performed many times and has influenced a younger generation to pursue an art form that was considered old-fashioned.
		Gamelan music, which uses gongs, drums and metallophones (similar to xylophones, but with metal instead of wooden bars), has existed for more than 1,000 years.
		Instead, it stretches traditional Balinese gamelan standards, as on its new album, ``Fajar.'' On the title track members use birdcalls, rattles and water to depict a sunrise in the rice fields.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/22/DD13161.DTL&type=printable (722 words)

	Gamelan Directories
		Our lists include some contacts in Indonesia, where gamelan are plentiful but internet connectivity is not, as well as many groups outside of Indonesia in countries where the situation is reversed.
		The purpose of these lists is to provide a communication network so that gamelan performers and enthusiasts can get current information about each other easily, and those who are interested in playing or listening to gamelan music can locate groups near them.
		The format of the North American lists and a few other entries is based on a directory first compiled in 1983 by Barbara Benary, with assistance from Jody Diamond and Richard North, and revised in 1998.
	eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~gamelan/directory.html (174 words)

	MIT's gamelan orchestra will perform at MIT, Carnegie Hall and later in Bali - MIT News Office
		MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika opens its 12th season this week with a concert on campus tomorrow followed by its debut performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City Saturday.
		Gamelan Galak Tika plays traditional Balinese music as well as experimental pieces composed by Ziporyn, a well-known jazz clarinetist and composer who directs the orchestra.
		Joining the gamelan for this cross-cultural reunion is Odd Appetite, the electro-acoustic new music duo of cellist Ha-Yang Kim and percussionist Nathan Davis, who performed Ziporyn's music for the recent production of "Oedipus Rex" at the American Repertory Theater.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/arts-gamelan-1110.html (653 words)

	AllRefer.com - Balinese music (Music: History) - Encyclopedia
		Few gamelans, the orchestras of tuned percussion instruments, play in Java today but they flourish, their archaic forms preserved, in modern Bali.
		The gamelans of the princes are no longer important in Bali, but have left their influence on the village societies for music making.
		The most important gamelan instruments are xylophones, which may be made of bronze or bamboo.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Balinese.html (587 words)

	To navigate in gamelan
		Gamelan Sari Pandhawa – Gamelan in activity, in the USA.
		But also, to give the possibility to some musicians to approach through practice those traditions by organizing training periods and workshops during wich information as complete as possible is offered to them about other musical traditions and their context.
		Among the workshops, one finds a Balinese gamelan, the Gamelan Angklung of Geneva, and a Javanese gamelan, Kyai Gandrung, displayed at the Ethnographic Museum.
	alek.zipzap.ch /gamelan/navi_eng.htm (1138 words)

	Central Javanese Gamelan
		The gamelan orchestra, based on metallic percussion with some wooden xylophones and drums, is well-known to many readers.
		However, the voices are not used as "lead" instruments in court gamelan (as opposed to wayang kulit, shadow puppet theater) and blend with or complement the sound.
		A complete gamelan consists of a pair of sets, one tuned in each of the scales and intended to be played together in many instances.
	www.medieval.org /music/world/java.html (2126 words)

	Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: Regional and Ethnic: Gamelan: Organizations
		American Gamelan Institute (AGI) · iweb · cached · Devoted to publishing, recording, distributing, and making available information on all aspects of Indonesian performing arts and their international counterparts.
		Gamelan Pacifica · cached · Arts organization and home of the Gamelan Pacifica ensemble, Seattle Creative Orchestra, Mary Sheldon Scott/Jarrad Powell Performance, and the Kali Project.
		Gamelan Sekar Jaya · cached · A nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to the study and presentation of traditional and contemporary performing arts of Bali.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=553822 (124 words)

	Members of Gamelan Tunas Mekar, an American gamelan orchestra
		Gamelan Tunas Mekar is a multi-national, multi-denomination community orchestra with members from Bali, Java, Germany, Venezuela and of course, North America, who live in the Colorado Front Range.
		Living in Colorado since 1993 as Artist-in-Residence with Gamelan Tunas Mekar, Pak Lasmawan also teaches Balinese gamelan at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado the University of Wyoming in Laramie and the University of Colorado, Boulder.
		From 1982-85 she studied Javanese gamelan in Indonesia, and is continuing her musical studies with Gamelan Tunas Mekar.
	www.tunasmekar.org /bios.html (1495 words)

	American gamelan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		American gamelan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		A New Gamelan (http://radiom.org/newgamelan.php), audio recording of Lou Harrison and William Colvig describing the theory and construction of one of the first American Gamelans, followed by a performance on it (free registration required at RadiOM)
		This article relating to musical instruments is a stub.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/American_gamelan (223 words)

	Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Before Word War II, the Javanese dancer Jodjana had a small gamelan group in the Netherlands, which accompanied his performances.
		Established institutional gamelan ensembles in the U.S. include Gamelan Galak Tika at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gamelan Lila Muni at Eastman School of Music, and Gamelan Semara Santi at Swarthmore College.
		The first Javanese community group was the Boston Village Gamelanhttp://www3.shore.net/~samq/bvg/ in Massachusetts and the first Balinese community group was Gamelan Sekar Jaya http://gsj.org in California.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Gamelan.htm (1323 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Some of Harrison's gamelan scores include Western instruments: viola in Threnody For Carlos Chavez (1978), French horn in Main Bersama-sama (1978), violin and cello in the Double Concerto (1981), soprano saxophone in A Cornish Lancaran (1986), piano in the Concerto For Piano With Javanese Gamelan (1987), violin in Philemon and Baukis (1987).
		Philip Corner, a co-founder of the American ensemble Gamelan Son of Lion along with Barbara Benary and Daniel Goode, composed over 400 works between 1972 and 1989 in his Gamelan series, scored for gamelan and/or indeterminate instruments.
		Javanese gamelan was also the focus of Lisa Karrer's music-theater piece Woman's Song: The Story Of Roro Mendut (2003), based on a 17th-century Javanese legend.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=60tp01 (1954 words)

	American gamelan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(Click link for more info and facts about Lou Harrison) Lou Harrison is well known for his compositions for American gamelan.
		This work led to his Doctorate thesis at (Click link for more info and facts about Wesleyan University) Wesleyan University entitled "The Autochthonous American Gamelan".
		The first American Gamelan group was created by Murphy at (Click link for more info and facts about Goddard College) Goddard College in (A state in New England) Vermont in 1967.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Am/American_gamelan.htm (236 words)

	Gamelan in Australia + New Zealand (Javanese + Balinese)
		Gamelan in Australia + New Zealand (Javanese + Balinese)
		Javanese and Balinese Gamelan in Australia and New Zealand
		Gamelan Padhang Moncar performs seven new works by New Zealand composers.
	danny.oz.au /gamelan (324 words)

	Susan's Evaluation Paper
		The first site I'll discuss is the Directory of Indonesian Gamelan Music Groups in North America, compiled by Barbara Benary and maintained by Marc Hoffman.
		the Mahabarata (the Hindu epic on which many gamelan compositions are based), hints on preservation and care of traditional instruments, and the history of Bali and Java.
		Most people who are involved with gamelan consider it an avocation, and play for fun, relaxation, and comradery.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~sturkel/gamelan.html (1337 words)

	Harvey Mudd American Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments from the classical Javanese orchestra known as the gamelan, but which plays new works by composers outside of that tradition.
		Current members of the Harvey Mudd American Gamelan include Bill Alves, Kristin Hunt, Martin Hunt, John Pham, Ansel Schmidt, Julie Simon, Mutiara Sandjaja, Kiattikun Tanapad, Gena Urowsky, and Darryl Yong.
		Elegy for Lou Harrison for cello and gamelan.
	www2.hmc.edu /~alves/gamelan.html (309 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Workshops that are a preparation for an assembly are two hours in length for the Gamelan performance and one hour in length for the dancers.
		Before students are invited on stage to perform on the American Gamelan they must “practice.” Various simple rhythmic patterns are taught through body percussion to the entire audience.
		Generally, a good format is to rehearse the Gamelan music first and during the last 1/2 hour of the Gamelan rehearsal, the dance would be combined with the music.
	www.ronmgeorge.com /children/workshops_middle.html (1097 words)

	University of Oregon News Releases
		Highlighting the festival is the first cross-cultural Indonesian-American gamelan gathering in the United States in a three-day celebration of music for Indonesian percussion orchestra by Javanese, Balinese and North American composers.
		Javanese and Balinese gamelans are comprised of different instruments and perform music that is characterized by bright bell-like sounds, deep gong resonances and rhythmic drumming.
		A full Javanese gamelan and full Balinese gong kebyar will be housed in "instrument rooms" (Rooms 198, 186 and 178) on the perimeter of Beall Concert Hall during the three days.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~uocomm/newsreleases/latest/nov100/P1101100_1.html (2224 words)

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