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Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the pre-Islamic period. During that time, Javanese tonal systems were imported to Bali. Balinese gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical music, is louder, swifter and more aggressive than Sundanese and Javanese music. Balinese gamelan also features more archaic instrumentation ...
Balinese, Music of Bali. I Nyoman Windha; Sundanese. Raden Machjar Angga Koesoemadinata; Jahja Ling; Soe Tjen Marching; Slamet Abdul Sjukur; Jaya Suprana; Wage Rudolf ...
Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist.He is best known for being the first Western composer to make a musicological study of Bali, [1] and to develop American gamelan along with fellow composer Lou Harrison.
Pages in category "Music of Bali" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.Every region has its own culture and art, and as a result traditional music from area to area also uniquely differs from one another.
Joged bumbung is a style of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia on instruments made primarily out of bamboo. [1] [2] The ensemble gets its name from joged, a flirtatious dance often performed at festivals and parties. This style of Gamelan is especially popular in Northern and Western Bali, but is easily found all over the island.
Gamelan gong gede, meaning "gamelan with the large gongs", is a form of the ceremonial gamelan music of Bali, dating from the court society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated historically with public ceremonies and special occasions such as temple festivals.
Balinese Music (1991) by Michael Tenzer, ISBN 0-945971-30-3. Included is an excellent sampler CD of Balinese Music. Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music (2000) by Michael Tenzer, ISBN 0-226-79281-1 and ISBN 0-226-79283-8. Music in Bali (1966) by Colin McPhee. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.