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	Deep Down Productions - Articles - Gamelan - Gamelan-Degung
		Degung developed in the small courts of Sunda and, to the present day, it is associated in the minds of the Sundanese with aristocratic rituals and traditions.
		Its present instrumentation, with goong (a large hanging gong) and suling degung (a 4-hole bamboo flute which plays a prominent role in degung) is attributed to Pa Idi and colleagues of his generation, who began to be active around 1920.
		Degung's core repertoire consists of roughly 60 pieces, many of which are closely linked through characteristic melodic (particularly cadential) and rhythmic patterns.
	www.deepdownproductions.com /what-gamelan-degung-a-4.html (796 words)

	Sundanese Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gamelans in West Java encompass a variety of types, from the ubiquitous five-tone gamelan saléndro to the rare seven-tone gamelan pélog, the multi-laras (multiple-tuning) gamelan of Asep Sunandar Sunarya, and the five-tone gamelan degung.
		Gamelan saléndro is used in instrumental performance, and as the accompaniment for a solo female vocalist, a dance, or the Sundanese three-dimensional rod-puppet theater (wayang golèk).
		Gamelan degung is frequently used for weddings, and shifted during the latter half of the 20th century from an instrumental ensemble performed primarily by men to one in which the ensemble serves as accompaniment to female singers.
	academic.evergreen.edu /w/williams/gamelan.htm (1288 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Gamelan degung
		Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
		With a slight modification from Javanese one, bonang in gamelan degung is composed of two rows of seven horizontal bulbous gongs, each row is placed at the left- and right side of its player.
		Starting from here, suling degung is played to give ornamentation to the melodic line which is played by the metallophones (saron and panerus) and bonang.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Gamelan_degung (384 words)

	gamelan degung
		For the Sundanese, gamelan degung is an important expression of their cultural identity, quite different from the gamelan traditions of Java and Bali (which are perhaps better known overseas).
		Gamelan degung emerged during the 19th century in the courts of the Sundanese regents, who ruled under the Dutch colonial regime.
		Gamelan degung is tuned to a pentatonic scale, pelog degung, which approximates to the pitches Ab G Eb Db C. Some pieces use the sorog tuning: Ab G F Db C. The tuning is changed by exchanging the appropriate bars or gong chimes on each instrument.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /gamelan/page2.html (351 words)

	American Gamelan Institute Library
		This is the library of the American Gamelan Institute.
		A practical introduction to Gamelan Saléndro/Pelog, Gamelan Degung, and Panambih Tembang Sunda.
		When he became the head of the Paku Alaman palace (_puro_) gamelan, his name was changed to K.R.T. (Kanjeng Raden Tumenggung, honorary titles) Wasitodipuro, meaning Wasito of the palace.
	www.gamelan.org /library (356 words)

	Southern Oregon University : School of Arts and Letters : Department of Music : Gamelan Ensemble
		Gamelan is a generic term which encompasses a large variety of instruments belonging to an ancient cornucopia of regions and styles.
		Generally speaking, a Gamelan will include several metalophones collectively spanning three or four octaves, a multiplicity of pot gongs of various sizes, large hanging gongs (some of which can be one meter or more in diameter) and a small set of drums.
		Degung is considered to have three main periods associated with its music.
	www.sou.edu /music/gamelan (874 words)

	Gamelan degung Information
		Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
		In classical degung, bonang conducts the whole ensemble and is therefore rarely absent, except in certain modern compositions.
		With a slight modification from Javanese one, bonang in gamelan degung is composed of two rows of seven horizontal bulbous gongs, each row is placed at the left- and right side of its player.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Gamelan_degung (208 words)

	USA GAMELAN GROUPS
		Gamelan Anak Swarasanti is a community-based Balinese gamelan orchestra that performs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond in a wide variety of settings.
		The Boston Village Gamelan is in residence at Tufts University, and rehearses with the Tufts ensemble.
		Gamelan Giri Mekar, originally of Woodstock, NY, is now in residence across the river at Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY where we meet Tuesday evenings at for practice when school is in session (generally from the beginning of September to mid-December and from the beginning of February to mid-May).
	eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~gamelan/directoryusa.html (3458 words)

	Four Notes - Gamelan
		This is the sound of a gamelan orchestra, of which there are many varieties, but which generally feature several different gongs, bells, cymbals, drums, and even flutes.
		There is evidence of gamelan music as far back as the eighth century, although it wasn't until the fourteenth century that it began taking the form still known today, with the addition of gongs and xylophones.
		The instruments used in a gamelan orchestra are varied, and are made from many different materials.
	www.fournotes.com /asia/indonesia/gamelan.php (402 words)

	AMIS: Abstract: Gamelan Kyai Tatit Ratri (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Unlike the Central Javanese court gamelan, which may numbers upwards of 40 instruments, the gamelan degung is a small ensemble.
		Compared to the more familiar Central Javanese and Balinese gamelan music, the musical forms of the gamelan degung repertory tend to be more complex and less obviously cyclical.
		Gamelan Kyai Tatit Ratri (Venerable Night Lightning) includes the Sundanese gamelan degung and a Central Javanese gamelan in slendro tuning, made in 1984 for Daniel Garr for use at radio station KUSC in Santa Cruz, California.
	www.amis.org /meetings/2001/01abstracts/peebles.htm (274 words)

	Gamelan degung at AllExperts
		Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
		In classical degung, bonang conducts the whole ensemble and is therefore rarely absent, except in certain modern compositions.
		With a slight modification from Javanese one, bonang in gamelan degung is composed of two rows of seven horizontal bulbous gongs, each row is placed at the left- and right side of its player.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ga/gamelan_degung.htm (294 words)

	Four Notes - Gamelan
		This is the sound of a gamelan orchestra, of which there are many varieties, but which generally feature several different gongs, bells, cymbals, drums, and even flutes.
		There is evidence of gamelan music as far back as the eighth century, although it wasn't until the fourteenth century that it began taking the form still known today, with the addition of gongs and xylophones.
		The instruments used in a gamelan orchestra are varied, and are made from many different materials.
	fournotes.com /asia/indonesia/gamelan.php (402 words)

	Some Javanese Music
		The transcription of Javanese words is given as on the CD, as many have passed through Japanese the conventions differ wildly.
		The Gamelan of Cirebon, King Record KICC 5130
		The Javanese Gamelan pages of Bali and Beyond have lots of info on the instruments and tuning of the Javanese gamelan, Mike Wardi also gives lots of dancing info.
	www.xs4all.nl /~gjvo/gamelan/gamelan_reviews.html (730 words)

	Indonesian Cultural Forum Artists
		The gamelan degung ensemble is a gong-chime orchestra indigenous to the Sunda area of Indonesia (in West Java).
		Gamelan degung was originally played in the courts of the Pajajaran kingdom, but by the 20th century, degung music had moved to the cities.
		While gamelan degung music today continues to grow and evolve, its popularity has expanded beyond the boundaries of West Java.
	www.catranslation.org /News-Events/Events/event-icf-bios.html (661 words)

	September2004 News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, over Summer 2004 a new gamelan for Royal Holloway was named Puloganti after moving from its place of origin on the West Javanese island of Sunda to its new home here in the British Isles.
		Gamelan degung is tuned to a pentatonic scale, pelog degung, which approximates to the pitches G F# D C B. Sometimes the sorog tuning is used: G F# E C B. Gamelan degung is used in the performance of classical genres but has also become the vehicle for arrangements of Sundanese popular music.
		Gamelan Puloganti will be directed by honorary lecturer Simon Cook, and the ensemble will give its inaugural performance in 2005.
	www.rhul.ac.uk /Music/News-and-events/Newsletter2004September/NewGamelan.html (295 words)

	Consulate General of The Republic of Indonesia - Toronto - Canada
		Gamelan degung is a type of gong-chime ensemble found only in Sunda, the mountainous region of
		For the Sundanese, gamelan degung is an important expression of their cultural identity, quite different from the gamelan traditions of Java and
		Later, singing was introduced, in repertoire which brought the singer very much to the fore: degung kawih.
	www.indonesiatoronto.org /default.asp?page=information&act=art_dtl&id=14 (247 words)

	WNYC - New Sounds: Sundanese Gamelan Pop (September 22, 2006)
		The Sundanese type of gamelan is called Degung - an unique type of gamelan used for listening and ritual, rather than for various forms of theatre or dancing.
		In contrast to other gamelan, Degung is smaller in size, having developed in the small courts of Sunda, originally without singing, and may feature a large hanging gong, called goong and a 4-hole bamboo flute, known as suling degung.
		Listen to this distinctive style of chamber gamelan pop from a 1985 LP of music by E. Koestyara and Group Gapura along with the Western music that it has inspired, like Lou Harrison’s work Main Bersama-Sama, written for Degung, but including an additional horn from the European classical orchestra.
	www.wnyc.org /shows/newsounds/episodes/2006/09/22 (373 words)

	Java - Sunda Country: Musique Savante, Vol. 2 - The Art of the Gamelan Degun - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		The gamelan degung is a classical ensemble, whose musical tradition is more Sundanese than Javanese.
		Using the jegog gamelan as its basic foundation, the Sundanese degung is particularly suitable for Western ears, because of its clear, ringing tonal scales, its magnificent, mellifluous timbres, and the cool, linear beauty of its structures.
		These recordings were made in 1972 and 1973, when master practitioners of this kind of gamelan degung -- which was never peasant folk music -- were still plying their trade in the territorial capitols.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,257484,00.html (436 words)

	Gamelan Kontemporer Evergreen Club Kanada (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hajat perkawinan seringkali identik dengan penyajian degung yang disajikan oleh banyak kalangan, baik itu kelompok profesional nayaga, maupun dari kalangan ibu-ibu yang kadang memiliki keterampilan yang tak kalah dengan kalangan profesional lawan jenisnya.
		Namun bila degung diperlakukan dalam momen kreatif dari musisi di luar wilayah budayanya, gaya ucapnya yang berbeda tentu akan mengundang keingintahuan banyak orang, terutama tentunya bila dipentaskan di masyarakat pemiliknya.
		Kepemilikan gamelan degung pun sudah mulai kabur seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi komunikasi yang tak lagi tergantung pada modus klasikal tatap muka di antara pelakunya.
	www.pikiran-rakyat.com /cetak/0702/14/1010.htm (1002 words)

	Sekar Enggal: audio examples
		A traditional opening piece from the aristocratic degung klasik repertoire, based on an instrumental framework of two notes (roughly C and Eb), each marked by the gong.
		This arrangement, by Koestyara, of a traditional degung klasik melody, became popular through the radio and cassette industries about twenty years ago.
		Again, the vocal and rebab melodies often diverge from the gamelan tuning.
	www.btinternet.com /~m.r.l.clayton/sekar/audio.htm (241 words)

	Superior String Alliance - Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A gamelan is an orchestra of tuned metal percussion instruments characteristic of Java, Bali, Malaysia and other island cultures off the coast of Southeast Asia.
		Each gamelan has its own name, its own tuning system, and its own distinctive "personality." Our gamelan's name means "Venerable Night Lightning," reflecting its original purpose: it was built in 1984 for use at KUSC, the campus radio station of the University of Santa Cruz in California.
		Compositions for gamelan degung can be repeated to create very long cycles, and the internal structure of the music is much more complex.
	superiorstringalliance.netfirms.com /gamelan.html (372 words)

	UK gamelan list
		Some gamelan are peripatetic, and the location listed may only be the base from which the gamelan travels.
		Gamelan plus tutor with van available for on-site workshops for community/educational groups — an introduction to Indonesian music and culture.
		The gamelan is to move into a new home in the Education building currently under construction, and due to open in 2007.
	www.gamelan.org.uk /uklist.htm (663 words)

	Lolongkrang Information
		Burhan wanted to stress the connection of the group and the music it plays to his Sundanese homeland and to emphasize his belief that the group represents the inevitable flowering of Sundanese art which, despite the American heritage of many of its members, is nevertheless "khas Sunda" (truly Sundanese).
		Palsiun Palsiun is in the "classical" degung style, which is characterized by simple drumming, intense heterophony among the bronze instruments, and phrases (marked with strokes of the large gong) of irregular lengths.
		Pusaka Sunda is dedicated to performing traditional and contemporary gamelan degung music.
	www.pusakasunda.org /lolongkrang.html (692 words)

	Gamelan Sinar Surya in Santa Barbara - Performance Gallery
		Gamelan Sinar Surya in Santa Barbara - Performance Gallery
		Gamelan Sinar Surya playing in Sundanese Degung style for tsunami relief benefit at Bali Trading Company, Santa Barbara.
		Gamelan "Budi Daya" at the Santa Barbara Club, April 1, 2006
	www.gamelansb.com /gallery.htm (296 words)

	Songket
		A collaboration between Australian and Indonesian musicians from Sydney Songket plays both traditional and original music on the instruments from the Sundanese gamelan degung, a small ensemble including saron (metallophone), bonang (gong chimes), jengglong (bass gongs), gong, kendang (set of Sundanese drums), suling (bamboo flute) and kacapi (pron.
		The traditional music of the gamelan degung creates a soothing meditative ambience for any occasion.
		Taking its inspiration from the music and culture of Indonesia, particularly that of the Sundanese of West Java, the group Songket (ex-Arafura) formed in 1997 to bring together musicians of varying backgrounds to weave their golden tapestry of sounds with lyrical melodies and pulsating rhythms.
	danny.oz.au /gamelan/groups/songket (219 words)

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