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Gamelan (/ ˈ ɡ æ m ə l æ n / [2]) (Javanese: ꦒꦩꦼꦭ꧀ꦭꦤ꧀, Sundanese: ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, Balinese: ᬕᬫ᭄ᬩᭂᬮ᭄ᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.
Wesleyan University gamelan ensemble. A previous Javanese slendro set, Kyai Muntjar Basuki (Venerable Sparkling Fountain) is used for wayang. Instruments were made around 1964 for the World's Fair. Its pelog instruments are in use at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. [3] New Haven: Gamelan Suprabanggo (Yale University Javanese Gamelan ...
Gong Ageng in Javanese Gamelan ensemble Two gong sets; pélog scale set and sléndro scale set. Smaller kempul gongs are suspended between gong ageng (largest, right-side) and its gong suwukan (left, facing rearward). The gong ageng (or gong gedhe in Ngoko Javanese, means large gong) is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan.
There are two tuning systems in Javanese gamelan music, slendro and pelog (heptatonic in full, but focusing on a pentatonic group). [2] Tuning is not standard, rather each gamelan set will have a distinctive tuning. There are also distinct melodic modes associated with each tuning system. A complete gamelan consists of two of sets of instrument ...
Javanese gamelan in Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Gamelan xylophone solo. The most popular and famous form of Indonesian music is probably gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments that include metallophones, drums, gongs and spike fiddles along with bamboo flutes.
A gamelan gadhon is an ensemble consisting of the 'soft' instruments of the Javanese gamelan. [1] This can include rebab, gendér, gendér panerus, voice, slenthem, suling, siter, gong, kempul, kenong, and kendhang.
The pitches of the Sekaten ensemble is in pelog, but lower than standard ensembles today. [3] According to Benjamin Brinner it is the lowest pitched, largest, and loudest ensemble in Java. [ 4 ] In recent times the gamelan at ISI Surakarta commissioned a special Sekaten set that would be compatible with their other gamelan, to be used in new ...
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) which fill the same musical function in ensembles lacking the large gong.