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	Balinese Music Zack's Indonesia Bali Travel pages - Indonesia-Bali.com \| all Information about bali, bali music, ...
		Music is practiced and developed incessantly by these groups in order to maintain a high standard of tech, unique and to develop an integration between musicians and dancers.
		Organizationally, music and dance troupes in Bali are deeply rooted in the banjar - the fundamental unit of community within the Balinese village or town.
		In Balinese music, this attitude of cooperation is essential, and individual virtuosity is always far overshadowed by the ideal of unity and perfect synchronization of the various parts.
	www.indonesia-bali.com /bali_music.htm (1856 words)

	Balinese music - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Balinese music represents, to a large extent, a survival of the pre-Islamic music of Java.
		Balinese music sounds impetuous and noisy, in contrast to the soft, tranquil music heard currently in Java.
		Balinese music has had some popularity in the West, mainly sponsored by the composer Lou Harrison, founder of the modern American gamelan movement.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-balinese.html (634 words)

	Indonesian Gamelan Music
		Indonesian music is often organized such that the lower registers provide the form, the middle registers are the melody, and embellishment is done through the higher registers.
		Musically and rhythmically, the group is led by the drummer.
		Balinese gamelan music can be split up into the venue for which it is being performed-temple music, Legong dance music, chamber music, processional music, and more.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/s/p/spp131/indonesia.html (837 words)

	AN INTRODUCTION TO BALINESE MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Balinese choreography, in its purest interpretation, is a detailed and subtle, physical embodiment of the music that accompanies it.
		At the center of Balinese musical culture are the deep and penetrating reverberations of the bronze gongs.
		The sounds of Balinese music awoke in him a singular ambition to hear the music at its source and to document it as fully as possible, setting aside (temporarily, he supposed) a promising career.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/Introductionbalinesemusic.asp (2828 words)

	Gamelan Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gamelan music is played on an orchestra consisting primarily of metal-keyed percussion instruments ("metallophones") and gongs, but also including hand or stick drums, flutes, and occasionally also bowed instruments and bamboo rattles.
		Balinese gamelan is often much louder, and more flamboyant and dramatic, but also includes quieter, contemplative pieces.
		Its music tends to be lighter and more delicate-sounding than the gamelan gong, but can be just as complex in its interlocking patterns and interweaving melodies, and hypnotic, repeating loops.
	music.ucsc.edu /swarasanti/gamelan.html (1348 words)

	Run For Your Life! -- 'Lithe Spirit'
		Neither the dance nor the music started out to be Indonesian, but after deciding to limit myself to a five-note scale while composing, I realized that the pitches I chose were a Balinese scale squeezed into Western tuning, and went back and modified the style of the dance as well.
		But the Balinese character is so strong and their artistic genius is so great that even the newest works show an unmistakable continuity with the history of Balinese art.
		Balinese dance emphasizes character delineation and expression of quickly changing psychological states, expressed in movements which are dynamic, riveting, and eye-catching, but always graceful and beautifully designed.
	www.runforyourlife.org /html/spirit.html (891 words)

	MTO 6.2: Tenzer, Theory and Analysis of Melody in Balinese Gamelan
		In this article a set of Balinese concepts of melodic motion are used to develop a theory useful for analyzing the variety of symmetrical and asymmetrical structures evident across the repertoire.
		Finally, and most significant from a music theoretic point of view, cyclic melodies, by virtue of their quadripartite structure, are inherently symmetrical, in that they can be thought of as rotating around the twin axes of their end/beginning points (marked by the large gong) and their midpoints.
		Balinese musical instruments and their ranges, tunings, acoustic properties, and idioms, are all inextricably linked with these melodic variation procedures, which together constitute a special approach to the globally widespread practice of heterophony.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.00.6.2/mto.6.2.tenzer.html (5723 words)

	American Mavericks: West Meets East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The third movement is closest of all to Balinese music, basically an orchestral transcription of one of the Odeon recordings McPhee had found.
		Thanks to his study of the acoustics of music in the works of Helmholtz, he rejected the 12-pitch tuning of Western music and invented a new scale with 43 pitches to the octave, one that would allow the kinds of tunings found in Asia and ancient Greece.
		Dismayed at the bad influence Western music was having on the traditional musics of India, Sarabhai had come to study European music for six months, so that she would understand what she was up against, before going back to help preserve Indian traditions.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/essay_gann06.html (3949 words)

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		Just as the Balinese share the planting of rice and the upkeep of their temples, traditional orchestra clubs, sekaha, are a communal organization in which everyone shares an equal interest and pride.
		The Balinese themselves refer to their orchestra simply as gong, as in gong gede or gong kebyar, and each set of instruments is given names such as "Sea of Honey" or "Floating Cloud." There's a gong for almost every occasion-weddings, cremations, cultural performances, birthdays.
		Balinese Music in Context is published by the Institute of Musicology, Petergraben 27, 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
	www.balix.com /handbook/chapters/balinese_art/music.html (4660 words)

	People Like Me Viewer's Guide: Dance Style Locator : Balinese Dance
		Balinese music and dance is many centuries old, but continues to develop as a living tradition.
		Music for the refined characters will have longer "gong cycles" or rhythmic patterns, while the funnier and coarser character are accompanied by shorter gong cycles.
		The music and choreography for this work were originally composed by Pan Sukra and I Nyoman Maria, respectively, for the famous 1951-2 American and British tour of the music/dance troupe from the village of Peliatan, Bali.
	www.worldartswest.org /plm/guide/locator/balinese.shtml (1233 words)

	The Music of Bali
		The traditional Balinese orchestra, known as gamelan, is composed of various forms of percussions, with notes overlapping and criss crossing among the various kinds.
		His compendium of Balinese music is an extremely well-researched collection of the various aspects of Balinese music.
		This group is a non-profit organization that studies and performs Balinese music and dances, based in the San Francisco Bay Area and founded in 1979 by I Wayan Suweca, Rachel Cooper and Michael Tenzer.
	www.indo.com /culture/music.html (542 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Balinese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Balinese music sounds impetuous and noisy, in contrast to the
		music For information on types of music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock music ; serial music ; and spiritual.
		Javanese music one of the richest and most distinctive of Asian musical cultures.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Balinese (623 words)

	Indonesian Music - Part One
		For the especially intrepid student of world music, it is possible, with considerable research, to hear and read about music from other islands of the archipelago, particularly the large islands of Borneo, Sulawesi, and Sumatra.
		Before discussing the gamelan music of Java and Bali, a brief survey of the wider context of this music will be useful for the student of Indonesian cultures.
		The Balinese language, for example, is normally spoken in informal gatherings in Bali, while Bahasa Indonesia is used on the radio, on television, and in the large public market places.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Indonesian_Music1.html (2601 words)

	Music: Balinese Bounty (The Boston Phoenix . 07-19-99)
		And as modest as he may be about his personal contributions to the project, he's more than comfortable praising the music itself: "Of all the percussion-driven ensembles on the planet, Indonesian gamelan is the apogee.
		The music has morphed into a modern version of gamelan." Lush layered vocals give way to frenetic musical passages as these pieces transition through textures and moods, always interesting, always leading somewhere new.
		Music: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-19-99/boston_music_3.html (778 words)

	Making Music at Bard
		Since the Music Program has a high ratio of faculty to students, each entering student can construct a program based on his or her interests, strengths, and capabilities, in collaboration with a faculty adviser.
		Focusing on music form small chorus, this ensemble focuses on a wide variety of repertoire from the 16th century to the present, and performs with orchestra each year.
		Balinese music is played in ensemble, with intricate interlocking parts that are learned in rehearsal.
	music.bard.edu /html/makingmusic.html (1190 words)

	Gamelan Ensembles
		Music is for the Balinese a kind of aural offering to the Gods, as necessary to the proper fulfillment of a ceremony or rite as are the physical offerings of fruits and meats, the burning of incense or the sanksritic recitations, sloka, of the Balinese Hindu priest.
		The sounds of the Balinese gamelan, a large set of tuned gongs, flutes, fiddles, xylophones and voices, of which there exist a least 25 different varieties on the island, is a permanent fixture in the Balinese temple.
		Musical parts and lines are constructed in such an ingenious fashion so that it is impossible to be fully realized by individuals, but only by the tight coordination of parts, memorized by rote in rehearsal (musical notation is not used in Bali) by a community of performers.
	conservatory.umkc.edu /gamelan.asp (1459 words)

	BALINESE MUSIC
		To expose the students to Balinese music as an aspect of art in Southeast Asia.
		Music was a very important part of the Hindu courts for ritual, theater, and recreation (Tenzer 1991).
		Music is an oral tradition, passed from generation to generation in a guru (teacher)-disciple relationship.
	www.niu.edu /cseas/outreach/balimus.htm (2025 words)

	99Bali.com - Balinese Art & Music
		The Balinese have a natural capacity for absorbing different cultural elements and blend them with their own, to produce dynamic new hybrids.
		Balinese dances are famous all over the world and the Balinese themselves take them very seriously.
		The commercial performances for tourists that are today offered on a daily basis in several places of Bali do, of course, not have the same religious significance and atmosphere of a dance that is performed at a real temple festival.
	www.99bali.com /artmusic (346 words)

	JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning - Edward Green
		Tenzer clearly feels Balinese music is illuminated by “dialectic” reasoning, and he asserts, in many passages, that the most fundamental dialectic in Balinese music, underlying all its technical particulars, concerns the relation of ngubeng and majalan [stability and activity].
		In Chapter 2 we meet a 1750 Balinese text, Prakempa, in which the scale tones of pelog and slendro are presented as the part of a spiritual mandala—“a vibrant…interconnected network of spiritual sound, color, and thought, ‘running,’ as it were, on powers provided by the gods.” (p.36).
		The mass suicide (puputan) of the Balinese royalty on the field of battle as they faced Dutch armies” is well known—as is the fact that the loss of the court as a focus for Balinese politics and music made possible a new spirit of independence in the outlying villages.
	www.musicandmeaning.net /issues/showArticle.php?artID=2.10 (1243 words)

	Bali Music,Bali Dances,Kecak Dance,Dance Schedule - gamelan, kecak, legong, barong, ramayana, mahabharata, kebyar
		Balinese dances are not hard to find; there are dances virtually every night at all the tourist centers.
		Balinese music is based around an instrument known as the gamelan.
		The gamelan is such a central part of Balinese music that the whole 'orchestra' is also referred to as a gamelan.
	www.all-bali.com /musicdance.html (1991 words)

	Gamelan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesian origin typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included.
		The occasion for the word approximately is that it is common in Balinese gamelan that instruments are played in pairs which are tuned slightly apart so as to produce interference beating which are ideally at a consistent speed for all pairs of notes in all registers.
		However, the equal-tempered pentatonic scale appears in his music of this time and afterward, and a Javanese gamelan-like heterophonic texture is emulated on occasion, particularly in "Pagodes," from Estampes (solo piano, 1903), in which the great gong's cyclic punctuation is symbolized by a prominent perfect fifth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamelan (1361 words)

	The Bali Music and Bali dance
		Besides the passion they show for their music and dancing and the important part these play in the ritual, to have a skilful and famous group of dancers brings pride and social prestige to the village ward, the bandjar.
		Balinese dancing is essentially for exhibition: dancing to entertain an audience and for display of skill, a stage of development that belongs to an advanced civilization, but that in Bali goes hand in hand with the ritual-magic dances characteristic of primitive peoples.
		Thus the survival of the primitive in a developed society, a characteristic of everything Balinese, shows itself in the dancing as well as in the general mode of life.
	geocities.com /bali_dance_bali_music (393 words)

	Music of Bali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In addition, the island is home to several unique kinds of gamelan, including the gamelan jegog, gamelan gong gede, gamelan gambang, gamelan selunding and gamelan semar pegulingan, the cremation music angklung and the processional music bebonangan.
		Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the pre-Islamic.
		Balinese gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical music, is louder, swifter and more aggressive than Javanese music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Bali (351 words)

	tHE pHiLOPSOPHER'S sTONE - Artaud & The Balinese Theater
		What so impressed Artaud about the Oriental and especially the Balinese theatre was the importance accorded to gesture and facial expressions and the relatively unimportant role delegated to the spoken word.
		He described the impact of the physical action on stage and its effect upon man's conscious; the emergence of the latter not only by means of the spoken word, but also by means of gestures, which should be looked upon as a kind of hieroglyphic or symbol.
		Therefore, objects, music, chanting, costumes, gestures and words, used together are much more effective in bringing about powerful reactions in the spectator than are words used either alone or as primal factors in a spectacle.
	www.strangemusic.com /philostone_balinese.htm (951 words)

	World Music Bali - Balinese Music
		Producer David Lewiston's follow-up to his legendary Music from the Morning of the World opens with two chiming, irresistible gamelan tracks, which sound like a cross between a carillon struck by raindrops and half-time in heaven.
		The music, in its range of expressiveness, balance of form, and economy of means, has all the hallmarks of the abstract and fully realized sound architecture that characterizes a classical style.
		On The Roots of Gamelan, we're given a real treat: the earliest commercially available recordings of gamelan music (dating from 1928), along with the 1941 transcriptions that composers Colin McPhee and Benjamin Britten made in their attempt to recreate gamelan sounds with Western instrumentation (mainly, the piano).
	www.almudo.com /Bali-Music.htm (1717 words)

	BALINESE MUSIC (GAMELAN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The building blocks of the music share many traits with the larger social organization of Balinese villages, which provide a compelling setting for music that is an integral part of daily life.
		Throughout this book gamelan gong kebyar has been the "default" ensemble for discussing musical instruments and technicalities because it is the orchestra that visitors are most likely to encounter in a formal performance setting, and the kind of gamelan that most Balinese are likely to know something about.
		Gamelan music is the sum of diverse foreign influences.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/Gamelan.asp (693 words)

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