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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 ...
Munggang at the Kraton surakarta. The gamelan munggang of the Mangkunegaran in Solo. Gamelan Munggang are considered among the most ancient gamelans of the kraton (courts) of central Java. The ensemble of instruments consists of gong ageng, kempul, kendang and horizontal gong chimes tuned to three pitches.
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 .
A typical large, double gamelan in contemporary solo will include, in the sléndro set, one saron panerus (or saron peking), two saron barung, one or two saron demung, one gendér panerus, one gender barung, one slenthem (or "gender panembung"), one bonang panerus and one bonang barung (each with twelve gongs), one gambang kayu, one siter or celempung, one rebab, one suling, one pair of kethuk ...
The gamelan sekaten includes neither singers nor the soft instruments, unlike most Javanese ensembles. [4] The ensembles are kept in the royal palaces. Two sets dating to the 16th century are found in each of the kraton in Surakarta and Yogyakarta, and two in Cirebon, one at Keraton Kasepuhan and one at
Most common is a 1 for pathet sanga and lima, and 2 for pélog pathet nem and barang, and sléndro pathet nem and manyura. Usually a 1 can be played for gatra ending in 1 or 5, and a 2 for 2 or 6. A few gamelans include a gong suwukan 3 as well. [14] The goong ageung plays a similar role in Sundanese gamelan (e.g. degung).
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 ...
A gatra ("embryo" or "semantic unit" [1]) is a unit of melody in Indonesian Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure in Western music. It is often considered the smallest unit of a gamelan composition. A gatra consists of a sequence of four beats (keteg), which are filled with notes (or rests, pin) from the balungan.