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	Encyclopedia article: Music of Bali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including kecak (additional info and facts about kecak), a form of singing that imitates the sound of monkey (Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)) s.
		Modern popular styles include gamelan gong kebyar (additional info and facts about gamelan gong kebyar), dance music (A genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing) which developed during the Dutch occupation and 1950s (The decade from 1950 to 1959) era joged bumbung (additional info and facts about joged bumbung), another popular dance style.
		Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music (additional info and facts about Javanese music), especially that of the pre-Islam (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) ic.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_of_bali.htm (340 words)

	Gamelan Bamboo Bali - The Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Bali, a small island in the Indonesian Archipelago, is unusally blessed with an abundance of music, art and dance.
		Bamboo gamelan music, by contrast, has a light and airy sound which is perfectly suited for background music in addition to concerts.
		While music in Bali very often accompanies sacred rituals, the music and instruments of Gamelan Bamboo Bali comes from the secular tradition of rindik and joged.
	www.sftsunami.org /bamboobali/music.shtml (276 words)

	AN INTRODUCTION TO BALINESE MUSIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Music and dance together are a mutually reflective duet, two realizations of the same abstract beauty, each clothed in the attributes of its form.
		At the center of Balinese musical culture are the deep and penetrating reverberations of the bronze gongs.
		Musicians everywhere seek recognition and reward for their art, but Bali is one of a handful of places in the world where there seems to be, at least at face value, a much greater overall respect granted to the role of music in sustaining the very foundations of society.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/Introductionbalinesemusic.asp (2828 words)

	Bali, music from Bali
		Bali is located near to the equator, and has a tropical climate, with year-round maximum temperatures typically ranging from 32 to 35 degrees Celcius, but with high humidity levels.
		The first animal that is sighted by any visitor to Bali is invariably a dog of the local variety, usually seen carrying out one of its ritual practices of sniffing piles of rubbish, marking its territory or lying down in the centre of the footpath.
		Bali Reptile Park Both are beautifully set out and perfectly maintained facilities, a delight to the casual nature lover and a valuable resource to any serious zoological enthusiast.
	www.indonesianmusic.net /bali_general.htm (987 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age
		Bali has a relaxed lifestyle and culture, which unlike many other parts of Indonesia is tolerant of alcohol consumption and the demands of Western holiday makers, including night life.
		Bali has remained relatively immune from the political, religious and ethnic strife that has wracked the country for the past five years during its transition from three decades of dictatorship to democracy.
		Bali is a small tropical island measuring approximately 145km by 95km and is one of 17,508 islands that comprise Indonesia.
	www.theage.com.au /issues/baliterror (1435 words)

	Murni's in Bali: Online Shop
		The structure of the music is akin to birth, death and reincarnation.
		Colin McPhee writes in his book Music in Bali that the Gong Kebyar was first introduced in Bungkulan village in 1914 and spread to almost every other village in Buleleng regency by the early 1930s, when it reached the height of its popularity.
		In south Bali Gong Kebyar is known as Kakul and in Tabanan as Mongol.
	www.murnis.com /culture/articlebalinesemusic.htm (1494 words)

	The Music of Bali 3 CD Boxed Set
		The Music of Bali is produced by the highly acclaimed New Zealand composer/musician/producer David Parsons.
		Featured on The Music of Bali, Volume Three: Kecak and Tektekan (13138), Kecak is derived from the sound cak (pronounced chok) which is chanted in complex interlocking patterns similar to the patterns played on the gamelan.
		The principal musicians of the ensemble are Tjok Alit Hendrawan, Anak Agung Oka Dalam, Wayan Kopi, Ketut Madra, Tjok Bagus and Wayan Subrata.
	www.blacksun.com /releases/19905.htm (498 words)

	Traditional Dance And Music - Promoting Bali
		Best-known are the highly stylized and mannered classical dance performances in Java and Bali, accompanied by the gamelan orchestra.
		Every step of these dances is minutely orchestrated, and the merest wink of an eye, arch of an eyebrow and angle of a finger has meaning and significance.
		Ubud on Bali and Yogyakarta on Java are the centres for these dances, with shortened performances staged in several venues every night for Western visitors.
	www.promotingbali.com /indonesia/traditional-dance-music (186 words)

	Bali Books \| Ganesha Bookshop and Music Workshop Ubud Bali \| Indonesian Language Books
		This is his personal tale of life in Bali during the revolution in Indonesia and his drive to bring a troupe of Balinese Dancers to London and Broadway.
		Bali faced the choice between economic decay or the cultural decadence of cultural tourism.
		Yudane is one of the most outstanding composers in Bali who has extraordinary versatility across a wide musical spectrum.
	www.ganeshabooksbali.com (845 words)

	BALINESE MUSIC (GAMELAN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		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.
		Bamboo grown in west Bali reaches monstrous proportions the likes of which are not known elsewhere on the island.
		Gamelan music is the sum of diverse foreign influences.
	www.balivision.com /Article_Resources/Gamelan.asp (693 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.
		There are even violent self-sacrificial dances in which the performers in a trance simulate self-torture with knives or walk on fire to appease the bloodthirsty evil spirits and to show their supernatural powers.
		It is said that Batara Guru, the Supreme Teacher, invented the first instruments, and that Indra, the Lord of the Heavens, originated dancing when he created the incomparably beautiful dedari, the nymphs of heaven, to dance for the pleasure of the gods.
	www.geocities.com /bali_dance_bali_music (393 words)

	World Music Bali - Balinese Music
		The players, all drawn from the senior faculty of STSI, are among Bali's finest, regarded throughout the island as a kind of musical all-star team.
		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.
		Bali's most popular ensemble is still the large gamelan gong, consisting of 25 to 30 musicians.
	www.almudo.com /Bali-Music.htm (1717 words)

	Bali dance and music- tips and insights by a travel authority
		The dance and music of Bali entertain and uplift your spirit.
		Although a 15 to 30 member gamelan orchestra is the one most associated with “gamelan”, many other distinct types exist in Bali.
		Though not as authentic (or lengthy) as the village presentations, there are many one hour Balinese dance and music performances geared especially for tourists.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /bali/dance_music_bali.htm (419 words)

	MUSIC - Luxury Bali Hotels Travel
		Bathers sing in the rivers, rattles clack in the fields, looms tingle with bells, kites vibrate in the wind, little boys walk along lanes imitating the sound of gongs, and flocks of pigeons circle overhead with whistles attached to their feet.
		The Balinese like their music electrifying, very loud, with sharp changes in tempo and volume.
		Another unique instrument of Bali is the rejog: two deep gongs fastened to hang vertically at each end of a stick.
	www.baliforyou.com /indo22/music.htm (288 words)

	Balinese music on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The most recent musical development is kebyar, a restless, explosive music which discards the highly developed, balanced forms of the older music.
		Music is learned by rote; it is not improvisation, however, but a sophisticated, composed art form.
		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 /html/B/Balinese.asp (655 words)

	Bali Travel Guide \| Music and Dance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Today in Bali is: Wednesday, December 14th 2005, at 4:09:52 P.M. Music, Dance and Drama are all closely related in Bali, in fact drama and dance are synonymous.
		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 (905 words)

	2004 World Music Workshop in Bali Application Form
		This year's World Music Workshop is a development from many previous workshops, which began in 1971 with the first organized on-site study program in Indonesia for Javanese and Balinese performing arts that was especially set up for foreigners.
		The success of many of those first participants who have used the experience to become leaders in their fields has inspired the continuation of workshops and cultural tours for over more than thirty years.
		This year the program opens with a four-day orientation, during which you will become acquained with the island of Bali and its culture, try out some of the classes to be offered and meet the teachers.
	www.centerforworldmusic.org /tours/2004/2004application.html (943 words)

	Fredrik deBoer: Bali Discography
		Bali Arts and Culture News (BACN) is an international interdisciplinary medium of communication for those interested in Balinese studies.
		Traditional music of Bali; the 1st-3rd works are gamelan music; the 4th work a wordless men's chorus which accompanies dancing (Kecak).
		Music of the annual cycle in Tatulingga: the Usaba Sumbu: Geguron gumi rusah(7:09); Mamuja (2:40);Orag kamal (5:08); Pelegayung (5:16); Sidakarya (4:10); Geguron pemandana (9:47); Cilimun(0:53); Kale cilimuani (2:01); Sanglan (5:56); Masaudan (3:50); Panjimraga (4:09).
	www.gamelan.org /library/deboer.html (4285 words)

	The Music of Bali
		The music of Bali is extremely complex and vibrant.
		Bela Bartok titled his No.109 piece "From the island of Bali." It is also said that Debussy, after having met a Balinese musician and seen a Balinese orchestra performed in Europe, is very impressed and affected, and that much of his later works contain distinct colors of Balinese music.
		His compendium of Balinese music is an extremely well-researched collection of the various aspects of Balinese music.
	www.indo.com /culture/music.html (542 words)

	Vital Records Recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In reflection of the turbulent times of early 20th-century Bali, the music is explosive, kaleidoscopic in character and virtuosic in its intricate interlocking rhythms, a distinct contrast to the stately ceremonial music that preceded it.
		Volume One (VR 401): Music of the Gamelan Gong Kebyar focuses on the musicians of STSI Denpasar, Bali's famed National Institute of the Arts.
		Music of the Gambuh Theater is the result of a yearlong collaboration and partnership with the Gambuh Preservation Project, a nonprofit multi year project sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the Bali-based Wianta Foundation.
	www.vitalrecords.ws /recordings.htm (992 words)

	The Gamelan Music of Bali (World Music Library) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Southeast Asian music cultures are often described as "gong" oriented because a large number of the indigenous ensemble instruments from the area are tuned metallic gongs.
		On the World Music Library release Gamelan Music of Bali, six sub-styles of Balinese gamelan are presented.
		All of the seven tracks on Gamelan Music of Bali are superbly recorded and, even more importantly, phenomenally played by such respected Balinese performers as STT Eka Cita and the Gunung Jati group.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,47679,00.html (494 words)

	About Bali & Indonesia Travel \| Bali Music - Baliforyou.com
		In Bali dancing is still a living popular art, while in Java, where dance of the higher order was dying until rescued in recent years by the sultans, today it is only in the high courts of the Javanese princes that fine dancing can be seen.
		In Java the fine dancer is a specialist attached to the court, often a prince himself; in Bali be is an ordinary villager with talent and skill who performs for the prestige of his community and for the entertainment of his neigbbours.
		In Bali as well as in Java, it is a part of the education of a prince to dance, act, and play musical instruments, but in Bali a prince who organizes a theatrical group mingles with the common people and performs for their amusement.
	www.baliforyou.com /bali/music.htm (2542 words)

	Balinese and Javanese gamelan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This picture was taken in Bali in the summer of 94, I was there with a group of people to learn music of Bali and Java, this was one of the styles we learned.
		It's probably one of the most common forms of music on the island, but one of the least known to the general public oputside of Bali.
		One of the most visual and musical aspects of lelambatan is an instrument called the 'trompong,' a long row of small nobbed gongs that a single person plays in a virtuosic way.
	home.earthlink.net /~lnerell/gamelan.html (558 words)

	99Bali.com - Balinese Art & Music
		Artistically, Bali is a melting pot of cultures and traditions.
		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.
		I Wayan Balawan is a versatile guitarist that play many styles of music, and a great solo performer.
	www.99bali.com /artmusic (346 words)

	Gamelan Selunding in Bali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		According to the report in the Bali Post (22-5-1978) these were bronze keys, but the ones I have seen were definitely made of iron.
		Music and Rituals of Tenganan Pagringsingan (translated by Cressida Joyce)", in Schaareman (ed.) 1992.
		Ritual Music from Bali I. The Annual Cycle in Tatulingga: The Usaba Sumbu.
	www.gamelan.org /AGI/selonding.html (1481 words)

	Bali's Generation X
		Although 'metal' music in Bali has been free of violence, it is perhaps a public perception of violence that prompted Crapt to line reggae bands up immediately after 'thrash' or 'death metal' bands.
		The future of the Balinese music scene is caught in a bind between a tourism oriented circuit that demands adeptness at covering classics and a recording industry firmly based in Jakarta that has as yet shown little interest in the budding Balinese scene.
		Via alternative music, Balinese youth are asserting a demand to enjoy capitalism's fantasy land free of the shackles of cultural preservation.
	www.insideindonesia.org /edit48/emma.htm (2118 words)

	The Music of Bali, Vol. 1
		This is the first of a three volume series featuring Balinese music and is part of a larger body of music from the largest Islamic country in the world, Indonesia.
		Recorded in a Balinese temple, Pura Penataran, at Laplapan, a village near Ubud, Bali, producer David Parsons introduces Western listeners to the unique—and virtually unknown—styles of music from the isles of paradise, Bali.
		As music is traditionally learned communally in village music clubs, the majority of the musicians who participate also hold other occupations.
	www.blacksun.com /releases/13136.htm (388 words)

	Amazon.com: Bali: Roots of Gamelan: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This has to be one of the earliest recordings of Balinese gamelan music before the war or ever in the whole worldï¿½ when Bali was just opening up to tourism in the 1930s.
		I found this cd to be a wonderful and rare moment in music because, Colin Mcphee had put so much effort into his study of Balinese music that he made recordings that were to be or supposed to be publicised to the whole world in the form of a 78 rpm discs.
		I can recommend this cd to anyone who is interested regarding the first recordings of gamelan music development with the radical kebyar style in Bali which started a few years after the Dutch takeover of Bali as well as the gamelan pelegongan, gender wayang etcï¿½ I give it the thumbs up.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I7LO?v=glance (1426 words)

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