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	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.
		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.
		Another community Balinese gamelan is Gamelan Mitra Kusuma in Washington, DC, and Gamelan Sari Raras is an active Javanese ensemble in Berkeley, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamelan (1442 words)

	Music of Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The soul of the gamelan is believed to reside in the large gong, or gong ageng.
		Gamelan is rooted in Hinduism and Buddhism, though the island of Java is almost entirely Muslim today.
		Gamelan Degung, gamelan salendro and trembang sunda are three primary types.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/m/mu/music_of_indonesia.html (966 words)

	Music of Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angklung - Beleganjur - Degung - Gambang - Gong gede - Gong kebyar - Jegog - Joged bumbung - Salendro - Selunding - Semar pegulingan
		Gamelan angklung is a style traditionally played at religious ceremonies such as cremations.
		Gamelan jegog is an ensemble of instruments made from giant bamboo up to 3 meters long.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Indonesia (1236 words)

	Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Traditions of gamelan have long been established in Malaysia and Suriname due to emigration, trade, or diplomacy, and more recently, through immigration, cultural exchange, and local enthusiasm, gamelan ensembles have become active throughout Europe, The Americas, Asia, and Australia.
		In addition, there are gamelan ensembles composed entirely of bamboo-keyed instruments, of zithers, or of unaccompanied voices with the functions of metallophones or gongs in the metal ensemble transferred to surrogates.
		In central Javanese gamelan, sléndro is a system with five notes to the octave, fairly evenly spaced, while pélog has seven notes to the octave, with uneven intervals, usually played in five note subsets of the seven-tone collection.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Gamelan (1122 words)

	Gamelan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gamelans use four (additional info and facts about tuning systems) tuning systems: (additional info and facts about sléndro) sléndro, (additional info and facts about pélog) pélog, (additional info and facts about degung) degung (exclusive to Sunda, or West Java), and madenda (also known as diatonis, similar to a European "natural" minor scale).
		In central Javanese gamelan, sléndro is a system with five notes to the (A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse) octave, fairly evenly spaced, while pélog has seven notes to the octave, with uneven intervals, usually played in five note subsets of the seven-tone collection.
		A few professional gamelan ensembles also exist, including (additional info and facts about Gamelan Son of Lion) Gamelan Son of Lion, a group that focuses on newly composed music by non-Indonesian composers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/gamelan.htm (702 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Gamelan Gadhon is an ensemble consisting of the soft instruments of the Javanese gamelan.
		Gamelan Degung is a Sundanese musical ensemble that utilises a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
		Gamelan Son of Lion is a new-music gamelan ensemble based in New York City.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gamelan (3367 words)

	Virtual Instrument Museum
		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/instrument.cgi?id=30 (1124 words)

	The Annual Glebe Music Festival
		Cyclical gamelan melodies supported by a repeated gong cycle of 8 beats' duration, where the gongs sound the pattern…GP.PG (G = large suspended gong; P = medium gong), are known as gilak.
		Created in the 1930s, Gambang is a one-movement instrumental work frequently used to bridge a lull in proceedings at official functions, for example when waiting for important guests to arrive.
		The title, Gambang, refers to the fact that the principal melody is set in the characteristic syncopated rhythm of the sacred gamelan gambang ensemble (see 4 above).
	www.glebemusicfestival.com /2004_gamelan.html (833 words)

	Virtual Instrument Museum
		Evidence of a gambang type instrument, with either wood or bamboo bars, can be found in the drawings on the walls of old temples, such as in the 9th century Buddhist Borobudur monument in Central Java and the 14th century Panataran temple in East Java.
		The choice of a multi-octave gambang to be incorporated into a full set of gamelan may be because of its suitability to accommodate a wider melodic range of gendhing.
		The gambang is one of the two instruments that have the widest melodic range (rebab is the other); hence, the melody of gambang can encompass the full melodic range of any composition.
	learningobjects.wesleyan.edu /vim/cgi-bin/instrument.cgi?id=42 (266 words)

	Gamelan
		Gamelan music is an integral part of all cultural activities in Java such as wayang kulit (leather puppets) performance, court dance, uyon-uyon (symphony orchestra performance), etc. There are two kinds of laras (tuning) in gamelan, namely slendro (comparable to minor key in Western music) and Pelog (major key).
		The pengendang (drumer) is the conductor of the gamelan orchestra.
		All the gamelan players are sitting cross-legged on a mat during a performance.
	joglosemar.freeservers.com /gamelan.html (642 words)

	gambang
		The Gambang looks like a metallophone instrument, however, its bars are made of wood rather than bronze.
		There used to be two types of Gambang, a Gambang with bronze bars and a Gambang with wooden bars.
		Bronze Gambang used to be found in the gamelan but nowadays it is not used anymore.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Indonesian/Budaya_Bangsa/Gamelan/Javanese_Gamelan/counter-melody/gambang.htm (197 words)

	Gamelan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		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 Gamelan[3] (http://www3.shore.net/~samq/bvg/) in Massachusetts and the first Balinese community group was Gamelan Sekar Jaya [4] (http://gsj.org) in California.
		Gamelan, Varieties of gamelan ensembles, Tuning, Influence on Western music, Gamelan outside Indonesia, The Netherlands, North America, See also, Further reading and External links.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gamelan (1333 words)

	Indonesian Music - Part One
		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.
		Both the Indonesian gamelan orchestra and the symphony orchestra, for instance, consist of a large instrumentarium of standard instruments: they perform highly structured sophisticated compositions, and they use the manipulation of dynamics (i.e., volume) for expressive purposes.
		Again similar to the Javanese gamelan, the largest instruments, those in the colotomic layer, generally function to punctuate musical sections that are organized into repeating gongan.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M151/Indonesian_Music1.html (2609 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 gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical music, is louder, swifter and more aggressive than Javanese music.
		Gongs and a number of gong chimes, are used, such as the solo instrument trompong, and a variety of percussion instruments like cymbals, bells, drums and the anklung (a bamboo rattle).
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balinese_music (374 words)

	Program: A Concert of Central Javanese Music and Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gambang Suling was composed by the famous dhalang (puppeteer) and composer Narto Sabdo and describes the beauty of gamelan music, in particular the two instruments gambang (wooden xylophone) and suling (flute).
		Gamelan is important in both formal ceremonies and popular entertainment and performances of gamelan are an integral part of many auspicious occasions.
		The members of the Melbourne Community Gamelan come from diverse backgrounds but have been brought together by their love of gamelan and have been studying and performing for a number of years under the direction of Poedijono.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~gamelan/PastPerformances/Program2000-08-05.htm (537 words)

	Glossary of Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bali Arts Festival A yearly event, held at the Denpasar Art Center in June and July, that was initiated by Balinese Governor Ida Bagus Mantra in 1979 as a showcase for new and traditional performing, literary, culinary and plastic arts.
		a scaled-down version of the gamelan gong gde that was common during the decades prior to the emergence of kebyar.
		an instrument used in some gamelans that is one octave higher than the calung and plays at twice their rate.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /westonroad/musicnet/GlossaryofGamelanTerms.htm (1561 words)

	World Arbiter Liner Notes
		Gamelan groups were having their older ceremonial orchestras melted down and reforged in the new style.
		Gamelan generally utilizes a five-tone octave (four for gamelan angklung), whether it be in the sléndro tuning of gender wayang or the pélog tuning of most other genres.
		A new form of gamelan instrumentation, with a striking compositional style, was bursting upon the scene, creating heated competition between gamelan clubs in different villages and regions.
	www.arbiterrecords.com /notes/2001notes.html (5545 words)

	Instruments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is easy to lose the tune but one of the skills in the Gamelan is realising when you've made a mistake and how best to cover it up.
		Gambang is traditionally a very quiet instrument, whispering hints of the tune to the audience.
		Gambang does not really have a sister instrument, it stands alone adding a touch of earthtones to the rest of the ensemble.
	aidanrandle-conde.atspace.com /gamelan/instruments.htm (1792 words)

	Gamelan explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java (1995) by Sumarsam, Order: ISBN 0226780104 (cloth) 0226780112 (paper)
		Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music (2000) by Michael Tenzer, Order: ISBN 0226792811 and Order: ISBN 0226792838.
	www.wordspider.net /ga/gamelan.html (1114 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Gamelan Music Of Bali (Rm) [Compilation] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The album opens with an angklung standard dance piece, "The Topeng." From there, it moves into "Kebjar Teruna," a piece in which a dancer generally interprets the gamelan orchestra's sound as movement in a stylized fashion.
		The only major omission here would be the kecak vocal genre, which fits into the main heading of gamelan but is rarely represented alongside the gong forms.
		For a basic look at gamelan, this album does quite well, competing admirably with a number of similar albums.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002291 (388 words)

	Gamelan Music of Bali - DVD @ US MacLinks.net Apple Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gamelan Music of Bali is a interesting cd because, this is the only album that I have heard that contains two orchestras that feature in this cd, the well known and popular gamelan gong kebyar or simply known as "kebyar" and also gamelan angklung kebyar.
		While gamelan gong kebyar in some tracks care pretty heavy and often stresses or emphasizes especially in track 2 kebyar taruna which would be used to accompany the well known legong kebyar or taruna jaya, in which the dancers or dancer would express their moods and emotions.
		The style from my point of view must empahsize the loud ringing of thunder and rain as the music piece is progressing in the start with the gangsa (metallophone) probably representing light rain, then thunder and a storm and then light rain and the whole cycle is repeated all over again.
	maclinks.net /shop/us/dvd/details/B000002291.html (606 words)

	Babad Bali - Gambang
		Gamelan Gambang adalah salah satu jenis gamelan langka dan sakral, termasuk barungan alit yang dimainkan hanya untuk mengiringi upacara keagamaan.
		Walaupun demikian, kapan munculnya Gambang di Bali, atau adakah Gambang yang disebut dalam Malat sama dengan Gamelan Gambang yang kita lihat di Bali sekarang ini nampaknya masih perlu penelitian yang lebih mendalam.
		Gamelan Gambang, berlaras Pelog (tujuh nada), dibentuk oleh 6 buah instrumen berbilah.
	www.babadbali.com /seni/gamelan/gw-gambang.htm (229 words)

	Indonesian Music - Page 203 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In addition to the most common type of Balinese gamelan described above, there are numerous other types found in Bali today, some in pelog tuning (with a 7-tone scale, a 5-tone scale, or only a 4-tone scale) and some in slendro tuning (with either a 4-tone or a 5-tone scale).
		Some are old and rarely played, while some are made from bamboo, others from iron, but most from bronze.
		A complete list of the 27 different types of Balinese gamelan orchestras (many of which can be heard on commercial recordings available in the United States) is provided below.
	trumpet.sdsu.edu /M345/Indonesian_Music1o.html (98 words)

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		How to point a mike at the bronze extremities of gamelan and still accommodate flute, voice, and bowed and plucked strings is a challenge.
		This excellent sampler of Gamelan Batel was performed by the ensemble "Kusuma Sari" from the village of Sading, located five miles north of Denpasar, at the village temple Pura Dalem Pembungan.
		This type of gamelan, which includes additional instruments combined with a gender wayang quartet, is rarely heard by visitors to Bali, and it is not really common fare among the Balinese.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Newsletters/EthnoMusicology/Digest/92-089.erd (1496 words)

	Rock Paper Scissors - Nonesuch Explorer -- Indonesia - Nonesuch's melifluous music from Indonesia, South Pacific
		Java: Court Gamelan (this track is on a gold-plated record that NASA launched into space in 1977)
		Reich, though he later developed in radically different directions, found inspiration in the primal pulse and reassuring tonalities of ancient sounds that seemed a universe away from the modernism that was fashionable through much of the 20th century.
		From Java, "The Jasmine Isle: Gamelan Music" is angelic: short, touching melodic figures layered and repeated, modulating sweetly, not once drawing attention to the complex musical process going on but rather caressing the listener into attention to the moment and nothing else.
	www.rockpaperscissors.biz /index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/66/article_id/259.cfm (733 words)

	Amazon.com: Balinese Music: Books: Michael Tenzer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		lead kendang, gamelan gong gde, angsel bawak, dug dag, cengceng kopyak, gamelan gender wayang, core melody, gamelan gambuh, dag dag dag, gamelan joged, tari lepas, balai banjar, gamelan pelegongan, gamelan gong kebyar, gamelan gambang, ding dong deng, gamelan angklung, kreasi baru, kebyar style, pak kap, gamelan jegog, colotomic structures, gamelan group, gamelan instruments, large gong
		Tenzer is not only a well known scholar, but also an expert player and composer in the Balinese gamelan idiom, and a founding member of America's fine ensemble, Sekar Jaya.
		Colin McPhee's masterwork may be the Bible of gamelan theory, but for practice, nobody has yet outdone Tenzer's work, and I recommend it highly to everyone interested in this subject.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9625931694?v=glance (916 words)

	MsoDockBottom
		Source: Flutes and Gamelan Music of West Java, tr.
		8) "Welasan"--ajeng (village gamelan), with tarompet, from Karawang (northwest Java in Jakarta region).
		3 and 4) "Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Javanese Gamelan" (1981-82), by Lou Harrison (b.
	mul5936-01.fa01.fsu.edu /cds.html (413 words)

	Flower Mountain, Payangan, Bali
		The library collection includes novels, books on Indonesian arts and travel, a selection of world music CDs and cassettes, and more than a hundred classic movies on videotape.
		Instruments on the premises include a complete Javanese slendro gamelan, gamelan selunding, gamelan gambang, rindik, as well as four gender wayang.
		Other ensembles, such as gamelan angklung or gong kebyar can be rented for group study.
	www.centerforworldmusic.com /flowermt/index.html (592 words)

	Different Trains - Steve Reich - Credits
		At Mills College in 1963 he received his M.A. in Music and had the opportunity to work with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud.
		Steve Reich studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, Balinese Gamelan Semar Pegulingan and Gamelan Gambang at the American Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle and Berkeley, California and he also studied the traditional forms of cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew scriptures in New York and Jerusalem.
		In 1966 Steve Reich founded his own ensemble of three musicians, which rapidly grew to 18 members or more.
	www.signumrecords.com /catalogue/sigcd064/credits.htm (348 words)

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