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    Indonesian Gamelan Music Worksheet

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    This document provides information about gamelan music from Indonesia. It discusses the Javanese and Balinese styles of gamelan, which use ensembles of instruments like metallophones, xylophones, gongs and drums. Gamelan often accompanies Indonesian dances and shadow puppet performances. The music is taught orally and follows either a slendro or pelog tuning system. Gamelan is heterophonic, with a central melody (balungan) and other instruments playing embellishments.

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    This document provides information about gamelan music from Indonesia. It discusses the Javanese and Balinese styles of gamelan, which use ensembles of instruments like metallophones, xylophones, gongs and drums. Gamelan often accompanies Indonesian dances and shadow puppet performances. The music is taught orally and follows either a slendro or pelog tuning system. Gamelan is heterophonic, with a central melody (balungan) and other instruments playing embellishments.

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    Indonesian Gamelan Music Worksheet

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    This document provides information about gamelan music from Indonesia. It discusses the Javanese and Balinese styles of gamelan, which use ensembles of instruments like metallophones, xylophones, gongs and drums. Gamelan often accompanies Indonesian dances and shadow puppet performances. The music is taught orally and follows either a slendro or pelog tuning system. Gamelan is heterophonic, with a central melody (balungan) and other instruments playing embellishments.

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    Indonesian Gamelan Music

    AOI ?
    PLG?
    But first!...
    Javanese Gamelan
    Kemogiro played by a chamber group. Note 3 areas – rhythm,
    melody and cyclic gongs.
    Mugi Mugi Gending Kebogiro meniko saget gayeng

    How to put Gamelan together


    Teaching you Indonesian Gamelan Music! (Lancaran Kotek)
    OrnamentaMon
    Imbal Bonang Sekaran Bonang Barung Playon Lasem Sl. Nem
    Heterophony in acMon in Jogjakarta
    PLAYON LASEM Jogja Mataram / Javanese GAMELAN Music
    Jawa / HMJ Pedalangan ISI Yogyakarta [HD]

    Javanese Dance – Ramayana


    A Slice of the Ramayana Dance at Prambanan, Java

    Balinese Gamelan
    Interlocking performing
    interlocking madness #1
    Hujan Mas Kotekan bali musik tradisional
    Dance
    Bali Ubud Barong Kris Dance

    Kecak Dance
    Kecak Dance / Uluwatu, Bali

    Addi%onally, there are PPTs in the Indonesia folder and this one as well.
    h7ps://docs.google.com/presenta%on/d/1rAnwN0kr-h8FLbjn8P9PEh2vSq1ci7HuKq3Mrd-uTe8/
    edit#slide=id.p
    Complete the table’s informa%on below. Some of this informa%on may be gleaned from the videos, or
    your own listening to the videos, or other sources.
    h7ps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what+is+gamelan

    Tradi%onal music, other art or dance forms, instruments used, who plays music, how is the
    music taught and learned, etc.

    Gamelan
    Gamelan refers to the instruments that make up one of two types of ensembles: Javanese
    gamelan and Balinese gamelan. Gamelan instruments, including various metallophones,
    xylophones, gongs, bells, stringed instruments, and drums adhere to either the slendro or
    pelog scales, which are microtonal in nature.
    Gamelan is often an accompanying music to other art forms Indonesian dance or Indonesian
    puppet-acting. Both the music and the dance serve to recount religious or folkloric narratives,
    depending on the region. Balinese gamelan is often used as religious music, as the Hindu
    narratives told in Balinese dance and gamelan are reflective of the Hindu-majority population
    that lives in the island of Bali. Javanese gamelan is often more recreational in its cultural
    significance, as the majority-Muslim performers often have little personal association with the
    Hindu narratives. All dances associated with gamelan music are very specifically gestured,
    with all body movements adding narrative elements to the overall story. Similarly, traditional
    puppet shows, called Wayang, also use gamelan music in accompaniment, re-enacting similar
    stories to the dances.
    All gamelan music is taught through a mostly un-notated, oral tradition. However, a few
    systems exist that notate the melodic and/or rhythmic elements in gamelan music.

    ELEMENTS
    This sec%on is important for developing performance and experimen%ng contexts! Highlight
    those elements most prominent in each form.

    Elements Gamelan
    Melody/Pitch The central melody of a song in gamelan music is called the balungan. A few
    instruments play the balungan, while the rest of the ensemble play supporting
    elements such as embellishments and layering.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

    Tuning systems Most gamelan uses one of two scales: the heptatonic pelog or the pentatonic
    slendro. In comparison to western equal-tempered scales, pelog and slendro
    are microtonal, using intervals that can be both greater than or less than a
    semitone or whole tone. Each scale has variants, and all pitched instruments
    are tuned to either scale.
    Meter Most gamelan follows cyclical patterns of 16 or 32 beats. Gamelan uses a
    rhythmic structure called coloctomy, which denotes a rhythmic phrase
    characterized by a specific sequence of different instruments.

    Harmony Gamelan music does not use an intentional harmonic language. Because the
    music is heterophonic, non functional harmonies are sometimes derived from
    simultaneous playing of variations of a melody which forms intervals.

    Timbre/Instruments Metallophones, drums, xylophones, bamboo flutes, bowed strings.


    Instrument types depend on region, Javanese gamelan uses more
    chordophone and membranophone instruments. Balinese gamelan has a
    greater emphasis on metallophones.

    Texture Heterophonic, melody repeated on multiple instruments with slight variations.

    Oral/Written Some numerical notation exists for teaching purposes, most gamelan music is
    taught through an oral tradition.

    Improvisation? Improvisation in gamelan exists in deviations and embellishments of the


    balungan. Otherwise, all players in an ensemble follow the prescribed melodic
    structure in each given song.

    Youtube sources used to collect this information

    h7ps://kaitlinbove.com/gamelan
    h7p://www.gamelan-bali.eu/gamelan_melodies.html
    h7ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan

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