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  Gamelan - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 zithers, or of unaccompanied voices with the functions of metallophones or gongs in the metal ensemble transferred to surrogates.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Gamelan   (1370 words)

  
 Music of Indonesia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Gamelan is rooted in Hinduism and Buddhism, though the island of Java is almost entirely Muslim today.
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.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Music_of_Indonesia   (1471 words)

  
 Gamelan - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
Gamelan Son of Lion [7], a group that focuses on newly-composed music by both the composer-members of the group and invited composers from around the world.
Gamelan Sari Raras is an active Javanese ensemble in Berkeley, California; the name was given to the group by Widiyanto (aka Midiyanto, and the instruments, brought to the U.S. from Java in 1971, are named Kyai Udan Mas, or Venerable Golden Rain.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Gamelan   (1923 words)

  
 Informat.io on Gamelan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gamelan orchestras are common to the Indonesian islands of Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok (and other Sunda Islands), in a wide variety of ensemble sizes and formations.
Gamelan music typically is rhythmmically organized by nested cycles, a feature that ethnomusicologists call "colotomy." The most prominent colotomic part is the gong ageng which is said to rule the ensemble.
Gamelan Son of Lion, a group that focuses on newly-composed music by both the composer-members of the group and invited composers from around the world.
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 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.
Gamelan is often used to accompany dance, wayang puppet performances, and rituals.
Certain gamelans are associated with rituals, such as the Gamelan Sekaten, which is used in celebration of Mawlid an-Nabi (Muhammad's birthday).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamelan   (1060 words)

  
 Ensembles - Gamelan
Gamelan at Eastman, as in Bali, is a communal effort.
Each year, Eastman's gamelan ensembles perform throughout the northeastern United States and in Canada in programs of traditional and contemporary Balinese music, present interactive workshops for audiences of all ages, and engage in creative collaborations with Western musicians and composers.
Gamelan Kembang Salju (Flower in the Snow), a gamelan joged bumbung (orchestra of bamboo poles) was founded in 1996.
www.esm.rochester.edu /ensembles/gamelan.php   (316 words)

  
 Gamelan Tunas Mekar Performance Reviews
Attendees at the Gamelan Tunas Mekar's Sunday afternoon "Celebration of Balinese Music and Dance" got a surprise: the Colorado premiere of "cendrawasih," a dance choreographed in honor of the Bird of Paradise, which inhabits Irian Jaya in the Indonesian islands.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar is the accompaniment, the percussive orchestra encountered on Bali and Java.
Gamelan Tunas Mekar is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is sponsored in part by the DU Lamont School of Music.
www.tunasmekar.org /gatrareview.html   (962 words)

  
 Indonesian Music - Part One
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.
Vocal parts are not as common in the Balinese gamelan as in the Javanese gamelan.
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)

  
 World Arts West : San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival : Dancers : Balinese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A gamelan is essentially an orchestra of instruments made of bronze, iron, wood and bamboo found throughout the Indonesian islands.
The Gamelan Joged, presented in the 2004 Festival, features instruments made of bamboo which come out of a folk tradition, rather than the bronze instruments which accompany the more typically seen religious and court dances.
The Gamelan Joged is often performed at parties, festivals, harvest celebrations and political gatherings.
www.worldartswest.org /edf/dancers/balinese_GamelanSekar.html   (758 words)

  
 About Bali -- gamelan, Music, gong, instruments, Balinese, orchestra, musicians, orchestras, arts, Bali, dancers, island
The national music of Bali is gamelan, a jangly clashing of syncopated sounds once described by the writer Miguel Covarrubias as being like "an Oriental ultra-modern Bach fugue, an astounding combination of bells, machinery and thunder".
Gamelan is actually the Javanese word for the bronze instruments, and the music probably came over from Java around the fourteenth century, but the Balinese duly adapted it to suit their own personality, and now the sounds of the Javanese and Balinese gamelan are distinctive even to the untrained ear.
Although the gamelan kebyar is currently by far the most fashionable style of music in Bali, and therefore the most common type of orchestra.
www.tunjungtours.com /aboutbali/tradmusic.html   (778 words)

  
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AD 800), gamelan orchestras are now found in various forms throughout the Indonesian islands of Bali, Java, and Lombok and also in nearby Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
Each year, Eastman’s gamelan ensembles perform throughout the Northeastern United States and in Canada in programs of traditional and contemporary Balinese music, interactive workshops for audiences of all ages, and in creative collaborations with Western musicians and composers.
Pak Suadin is the Founder and Artistic Director of Gamelan Mitra Kusuma in Washington, DC.
www.esm.rochester.edu /gamelan/aboutus.htm   (952 words)

  
 What is Joged?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Joged dancers may wear two different types of costumes, including a simple lace kebaya blouse and a kamen (sarong) or gold gilded material wrapped around their bodies.
Joged bumbung or pejogedan is the name of the gamelan used to accompany joged.
The movements of joged are simple and slightly evocative, in the effort to encourage members of the audience to join in and out-dance her.
www.baliadvertiser.biz /articles/kulturekids/2005/joged.html   (333 words)

  
 Gamelan Pelegongan, Gamelan seven-tone Semara Pagulingan, Pejogedan, Baleganjur, Gender Wayang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Commonly known as Joged Bumbung, due to the name of the dance it accompanies, this is made up primarily of bamboo instruments.
Normally functioning as a marching gamelan for ceremonies such as cremations and purification rituals, this ensemble is one of the most portable of all Balinese gamelan.
This gamelan is soft-sounding and is used to accompany puppet shows, as well as wedding, tooth filing, and cremation ceremonies.
www.balimusicanddance.com /gamelan.htm   (572 words)

  
 Musical Instruments of Bali, Indonesia used by Gamelan Tunas Mekar
In his liner notes to Gamelan Tunas Mekar's first CD, released in the Spring of 1995, David Harnish says: "Gamelan angklung is a four-tone orchestra, one of more than twenty different types of indigenous gamelan in Bali consisting of gongs, metal xylophones, cymbals, flutes, and drums.
Joged Bumbung is comprised of bamboo resonators lying horizontally and tied to bamboo frames.
Often used for informal occasions, joged bumbung accompanies a dance where the woman invites the man to dance with her by placing a sash around his waist and pulling him into the dance circle.
www.tunasmekar.org /orchestra.html   (703 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)

  
 Gamelan
These sets of instruments are typically played by mixed-gender groups of students (a practice that's very rare in Indonesia for religious reasons).
The first Javanese community group was the Boston Village Gamelan in Massachusetts and the first Balinese community group was Gamelan Sekar Jaya in California.
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www.mp3.fm /Gamelan.htm   (813 words)

  
 Gamelan
Most gamelans are indeed metallic, but it doesn't imply that they necessarily be.
This consideration resolves the case of the jègog and jogèd bumbung gamelans.
There is therefore no risk of using the word gamelan for ensembles of other traditions such as steel drum or kodo.
alek.zipzap.ch /gamelan/bosastra/game_eng.htm   (845 words)

  
 Gamelan joged bumbung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joged bumbung is a style of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia on instruments made primarily out of bamboo.
Unlike many styles of Balinese Gamelan which have sacred roles in religious festivals, Joged music is much more secular, and in many ways has become the folk music of Bali.
The bamboo instruments of the Joged, called Grantang or more commonly Tingklik, are marimba-like instruments made out of bamboo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gamelan_joged_bumbung   (368 words)

  
 Play and hear gamelan in Geneva
Tembang is not gamelan but makes use of similar scales and its rhythms reveal influences from gamelan.
The gamelan and the players are those of the workshop going on in the museum.
Although gambuh is not strictly gamelan, we have included here this performance because gambuh uses certain of the gamelan instruments and is part of the Balinese theater tradition.
alek.zipzap.ch /gamelan/pla3_eng.htm   (355 words)

  
 Joged - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Joged is a style of dance from the Island of Bali in Indonesia.
The dance is typically accompanied by a gamelan ensemble of bamboo instruments called a gamelan joged bumbung.
This page was last modified 08:02, 28 March 2005.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Joged   (67 words)

  
 Which gamelan for which ceremony?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There may in fact be more than forty different types of gamelan in Bali, each one serving a different function.
Joged Bumbung is used to liven up receptions.
There is a special gamelan for every stage of the process of death rites.
www.baliadvertiser.biz /articles/kulturekids/2004/23gamelan.html   (287 words)

  
 Fredrik deBoer: Bali Discography
"Tabuh pengalang" (2:40) Bamboo wind harp; Bamboo xylophone (5:16), Gamelan gender wayang "Delem tari" (5:01), Gamelan selonding." Geing rejang duhtukad" (5:12), Cockfight; Trance in Paksabali and Kesiman; Gemelan beleganjur (5:35), Kecak from Blakiuh nar Mengwi (5:44), Gamelan gambuh "Ginnaman umerades" (4:51), Gamelan joged kebyak.
Gamelan joged bumbung "Suar Agung", Negara [sound recording].
Puspa Winangun (seka joged "Meka Sari"), Balaganjuran (seka balaganjur), Repertoire d'angklung daun pat.
www.gamelan.org /library/deboer.html   (4285 words)

  
 Dances & Drama in Bali - Bali Directory - Information about resources in Bali - Designed and Managed by bali3000
The Joged dance is typically accompanied by a gamelan ensemble of bamboo instruments called a gamelan joged bumbung.
The Joged Bumbung is one of the few secular dances of Bali where the flashy-dressed jogged dancer invites men from the crowd to dance with her in pretence of seduction.
Specific attributes are used to identify the characters, such as: a mustache and thick eyebrows for the elder, arrogance and defiance for Patih, etc. The rhythm of movements, in accordance to the age and role of the character, is underscored by a large gamelan orchestra.
www.bali-directory.com /all-about-bali/DancesDrama.asp   (4561 words)

  
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In Java, the gamelan is often kept at the pavilion (kraton - a complex of small buildings and open pavilions in the village).
Most of the gamelans that you will run into in Colorado or Wyoming are very new, and have been built for those groups.
Gamelan jegog — a gamelan made entirely of bamboo idiophones Listen: Music in Bali #12 Kecak — a type of vocal gamelan that is very popular entertainment in Bali.
clem.mscd.edu /~milisa/Apr10notes.doc   (2119 words)

  
 Gamelan in Japan
Bali Gamelan Club (in Japanese) is a helpful resource with links to a number of groups plus listings of their current performances.
This group was begun by students who practiced Gamelan instrument with Kozako in her lecture of Ethnomusicology in 1998.
Narrative: The ensemble was founded as a gamelan study circle of Kunitachi College of Music in 1982, and formed an independent ensemble, mainly with the college graduates based in Tokyo.
eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~gamelan/directoryjapan.html   (3059 words)

  
 Bali Travel Guide | Music and Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The renewal of the arts of the thirties saw a surge in dance creativity which produced dances which are still the most popular of Bali : swift, glittering, short non-narrative dances inspired by the dynamism of the Gong Kebyar, a new gamelan orchestra originating in northern Bali.
The Joged Bumbung is one of the few, exclusively secular dances of Bali, during which the flashy-dressed joged dancer invites men from the crowd to dance with her in a pretence of seduction.
The gamelan is such a central part of Balinese music that the whole 'orchestra' is also referred to as a gamelan.
www.balidwipa.com /bali/music.shtml   (894 words)

  
 OSU Gamelan Workshop Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rehearsing in a small room in Hughes hall, the gamelan always filled the entire building with music.
This type of ensemble is know as Joged Bumbung and is used for secular entertainment.
Flutes and the stringed rebab are also used in the gamelan.
www.nicholasposs.com /gamelangallery.htm   (361 words)

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