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Gamelan is played to support the atmosphere that Dalang (puppet master) wants to build in a wayang performance. Gamelan, which is the music accompanying the puppet show, is played in pelog or slendro tones according to the atmosphere of the scene being played. Gamelan music supports the delivery of values in wayang performances.
Kepatihan is widely used in ethnomusicological studies of the gamelan, sometimes accompanied by transcriptions into Western staff notation with approximate mapping of slendro and pelog tuning systems of gamelan onto the western staff, with and without various symbols for microtones.
Gamelan Lila Muni (Heavenly Sound) Balinese angklung: Traditional and contemporary University of Rochester Eastman School of Music ensemble [3] [69] Stony Point: Rockland Angklung Society American - Balinese angklung, iron and bamboo Traditional and American [3] North Carolina: Chapel Hill: Gamelan Nyai Saraswati Javanese slendro and pelog (bronze)
Gamelan angklung [1] Gamelan batel; Gamelan bebonangan; Gamelan beleganjur; Gamelan gambang; Gamelan gambuh; Gamelan gandrung; Gamelan gender wayang; Gamelan gong gede; Gamelan gong kebyar; Gamelan gong luang; Gamelan gong saron; Gamelan gong suling; Gamelan jegog; Gamelan joged bumbung; Gamelan pearjaan; Gamelan pelegongan; Gamelan selunding ...
The Music of Java embraces a wide variety of styles, both traditional and contemporary, reflecting the diversity of the island and its lengthy history.Apart from traditional forms that maintain connections to musical styles many centuries old, there are also many unique styles and conventions which combine elements from many other regional influences, including those of neighbouring Asian ...
The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter are sometimes called "gong circles"), and may have one or two rows of gongs. They are played by one to four musicians, each using two padded sticks to strike them. They are an important instrument in many Southeast Asian musical ensembles, such as Indonesian gamelan, kulintang, or Thai pi ...
Colotomic structures or Gendhing structure refers to the colotomic structure of gamelan compositions in general. Gendhing (also written, as in the old orthography, gending) can also be used to refer to a specific class of colotomic structures used in Javanese gamelan music. At its simplest, colotomic may be taken to mean, "cyclicly punctuating ...
Gerong (Javanese: ꦒꦼꦫꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: gerong) is the Javanese verb meaning "to sing in a chorus." Penggerong is the proper name of a member of the chorus, but often the word gerong is used to refer to the unison male chorus that sings with the gamelan. The chorus or the melody may also be called the gerongan.