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| | Music of Indonesia Summary |
 | | The broadly similar musical instruments, performance practices, and music-generating concepts throughout the archipelago are partly due to use of the Malay lingua franca and constant sea and land contact over the millennia. |
 | | That music everywhere reflects the natural environment is widely apparent, as in Javanese gara-gara gamelan music, which depicts natural turbulences during the middle section of the Javanese wayang or wayang orang (human theater) night. |
 | | The materials of which the puppets, theatrical properties, and musical instruments are made—mainly leather, bronze, iron, wood, and bamboo—are determined by local flora, fauna, and metals, while traditional farming and socioreligious practices provide the contexts for their artistic usage. |
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