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Man playing kenong in a gamelan orchestra (1966) The Kenong is a musical instrument of Indonesia used in the gamelan. [1] [2] It is a kind of gong and is placed on its side. It has the same length and width. Thus, it is similar to the bonang, kempyang, and ketuk, which are also cradled gongs. Kenongs are generally much larger than the ...
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Issued in 1904 under title: Compendium of drawing "Edited by Alfred E. Zapf"--T.p. verso Contains also examination papers and plates Includes indexes
Kenong (a set of 5 large kettle gongs) A pair of hanging gongs, which are gong kecil and gong besar; Gendang (a barrel drum) Malay gamelan had more than seven musical instruments during its heyday at Istana Kolam, such as the gedemung (slentho in Javanese tradition) and gender, but only seven instruments remained and were kept after the Second ...
where "." indicates no interpunctuating instrument plays, p indicates the stroke of the kempyang, T the ketuk, N the kenong, and G the simultaneous stroke of the gong and kenong. Thus, in each section, the gong plays once, the kenong divides that into four parts, and then that is divided into parts according to the given structure.
A Gong depicted on the 15th-century temple reliefs at the Candi Sukuh in Central Java, Indonesia. Gong ageng demarcates the larger phrase structure or gongan.Within the gongan structure, Between, the gong suwukan and kempul punctuate the subdivisions of time.
The kempyang and ketuk are two instruments in the gamelan ensemble of Indonesia, generally played by the same player, and sometimes played by the same player as the kenong. They are important beat-keepers in the colotomic structure of the gamelan. Depending on the structure, they play different, repeating patterns every gongan. Not all ...