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The main function of the gamelan as a dance accompaniment is to provide rhythm, beat, or tempo guidance. So that the selection of accompanying music must be adjusted to the rhythm and theme of the dance. Dance performance using live gamelan is a complex artistic activity. Gamelan in dance is used as an illustration or support for the atmosphere.
The Robert Macht Gamelan Ensemble Central Javanese, bronze, slendro and pelog Traditional and contemporary American The ensemble also performs with the Kimberly Mackin dance company. [3] Gamelan Saraswati Balinese angklung (acquired in 2001) University of Maryland, Baltimore County ensemble [3] [43] Boyds: Gamelan Wrhatnala of Boyds
The ensemble includes suling, various small percussion instruments similar to sleigh bells and finger cymbals, and trompong - a row of small kettle gongs that play the melody. A similar type of ensemble, Gamelan Pelegongan, substitutes a pair of gendérs for the trompong as the melody carrier and plays the music for a set of dances known as legong.
The gamelan plays in two different ensemble types: loud-playing ensemble and soft-playing ensemble. The gendèr is used in both styles. The soft-playing style includes voices and instruments like gambang, celempung, rebab, gendèr panerus, and gendèr barung.
"Gamelan instruments" is technically redundant since, "The name 'gamelan' actually refers only to the instruments themselves...Javanese have a separate word for the art of playing gamelan instruments..." Lindsay, Jennifer (1992). Javanese Gamelan, p.10. ISBN 0-19-588582-1.
The ugal features mainly in gamelan gong kebyar, where it carries the central melody (pokok) of the piece. Sometimes it may give its melodic duty to the jublag, where it then takes over as the leader of a kotekan. There is often only one ugal in the kebyar ensemble, and it is usually deeper toned. It is played by one of the leaders of the ensemble.
In Java, the full gamelan also adds a bowed string instrument (the rebab, a name illustrative of Islamic influence), plucked siter, vertical flute suling and voices. [1] The rebab is one of the main melodic instruments of the ensemble, together with the metallophone gendér; these and the kendang drums are often played by the most experienced ...
In older Javanese usage and in modern Balinese usage, gong is used to identify an ensemble of instruments. In contemporary central Javanese usage, the term gamelan is preferred and the term gong is reserved for the gong ageng , the largest instrument of the type, or for surrogate instruments such as the gong komodong or gong bumbung (blown gong ...