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The complementary set of pelog instruments will include two each of gender panerus, gender barung, gambang and siter [check spelling] or celempung, the first of each pair tuned to the pelog bem subset of five tones (tones 1,2,3,5,6), the second to the pelog barang subset of five tones (2,3,5,6,7). The pelog bonang will each have fourteen gongs.
Lokananta is also the name of the pitch-black gamelan set of Kraton Surakarta (Surakarta's Palace). [5] [6] It had the most modern equipments of its time, [7] including the then state-of-the-art Trident Series 80B mixer, [3] UREI 801 speaker. [8] Lokananta Studio.
In some types of gamelan, two gendèrs are used, both spanning approximately two and a half octaves, the gendèr barung and the gendèr panerus, pitched an octave higher than the other. [1] In Gamelan Surakarta, the gendèr panerus plays a single line of melodic pattern, following a pattern similar to the siter. The gendèr barung plays a ...
Depending on the tuning of the individual gamelan, it is often possible to hear the pitches 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 of slendro as an anhemitonic pentatonic scale, [3] do-re-mi-sol-la. However, in the pélog system pitches are simply numbered from low to high 1–7 and there is no question of interpreting these sounds diatonically.
The names of the sets at Yogyakarta are Kyai Guntur Madu and Kyai Naga Wilaga; those at Surakarta are Kyai Guntur Madu and Kyai Guntur Sari. [5] According to Benjamin Brinner, the gamelan sekaten, exists in halves: divided between the two rival courts in Surakarta and Yogyakorta, each court had a matching second half made. [4]
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 ...
Gamelan is used to accompany various traditional ceremonies in Indonesia, gamelan kodhok ngorek, gamelan monggang, gamelan carabalen, and gamelan ageng are used for important ceremonies related to kings in the Yogyakarta and Surakarta palaces such as the king's coronations ceremony, the king's birthday ceremony, the coronation anniversary ...
Gamelan and other Javanese music also influenced kroncong. The characteristics of Javanese music include: melodies using the Pelog and Slendro (pentatonic) modes; the use of a siter (a plucked stringed instrument), a kendang (a Javanese drum), a kempul (a gong used in gamelan), metal and wood marimbas , gongs, and a unique style of Javanese ...