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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 ...
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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.
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.
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.
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.
During their colonization of Bali in the late nineteenth century, the Dutch dissolved the courts. The use of the gong gede became limited to temple music. [ 4 ] It was later superseded in popularity by gong kebyar , a more up-tempo form of gamelan played with smaller gongs, that originated in Balinese villages in the late 19th century and ...