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What country does gamelan come from?

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Indonesia


Beside this, where does gamelan come from?

Indonesia

Secondly, how is Gamelan performed? Gamelan. A sustained melody is played either by the bamboo flute (suling) or by a bowed stringed instrument (rebab) or is sung—the last especially when, as often occurs, the gamelan is used to accompany theatrical performances, or wayang.

Also question is, what is Gamelan made of?

A gamelan ensemble consists of a variety of metal percussion instruments, usually made of bronze or brass, including xylophones, drums, and gongs. It may also feature bamboo flutes, wooden stringed instruments, and vocalists, but the focus is on the percussion.

What are the two types of gamelan?

The two main types of scales in gamelan are the pelong and slendro scales. Pelong is a septatonic scale, and is newer in comparison to the slendro scale. Gamelan usually only uses five of the seven tones in pelong.

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Heba Tafalla

Professional

What instruments are in gamelan music?

A gamelan is a set of instruments consisting mainly of gongs, metallophones and drums. Some gamelans include bamboo flutes (suling), bowed strings (rebab) and vocalists. Each gamelan has a different tuning and the instruments are kept together as a set. No two gamelans are the same.

Xesca Garde

Professional

What religion is linked to gamelan?

The gamelan predates the Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records and thus represents an indigenous art form.

Jasmine Zinkevich

Professional

What is the meaning of bonang?

The bonang is a musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called "kettles" or "pots") placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame (rancak), either one or two rows wide.

Danilo Krasteva

Explainer

What are the beliefs behind gamelan music?

The Beliefs
In Indonesian traditional thinking, the gamelan is sacred and is believed to have supernatural power. Both musician and non-musicians are humble and respectful to the gamelan. Incense and flowers are often offered to the gamelan. It is believed that each instrument in the gamelan is guided by spirits.

Zhiyuan Wallrab

Explainer

When was the gamelan created?

In Javanese mythology, the gamelan was created in Saka era 167 (c. 230 C.E.) by Sang Hyang Guru, the god who ruled as king of all Java from a palace on the Maendra mountains in Medangkamulan (now Mount Lawu). He needed a signal to summon the gods, and thus invented the gong.

Liudmyla Iranzo

Explainer

Why is gamelan called Gamelan?

“Gamelan gets its name from the low Javanese word 'gamel', which means a type of hammer, like a blacksmith's hammer. The name 'gamelan' refers to the method of playing the instruments - by striking them - as they are almost entirely percussion.”

Shamika Aracena

Pundit

What are metallophones made of?

Metallophones are a subset, made of metal, of Hornbostel-Sachs category 111.22 Percussion plaques, which is a subset of percussion idiophones.

Yueping Mesonero

Pundit

What is the texture of gamelan music?

The texture of the typical gamelan sound is based on melodic layers. The fundamental layer is, of course, the colotomic instruments playing the form. Just "above" this layer are lower-pitched instruments playing the most basic version of the melody.

Iluminada Jadrov

Pundit

How many gamelan instruments are there?

The Gamelan Instruments. The gamelan ensemble is made up of sixteen bronze xylophones, several gongs and gong-chimes, drums, cymbals, and bamboo flutes—over forty instruments in total.

Claudette Robb

Pundit

Which instruments are the most important in any Balinese gamelan?

The gong is one of the most important gamelan instruments, and a variety of gongs are used in various ensembles. In the foreground are several of the kettle-gongs in a gong chime. Behind them are three large hung gongs.

Giuseppe Herbschleb

Pundit

What is Gamelan culture?

Gamelan originally refers to a set of musical instruments rather than a genre. Many members of a gamelan family are percussive – different kinds of metallophones, drums, chimes, xylophones, and melodic instruments like flutes, strings, and sometimes even a vocalist.

Brita Beade

Teacher

What does a gamelan sound like?

The best known is gamelan - a percussion orchestra featuring beautiful bronze (or sometimes bamboo) instruments. With its shimmering, interlocking patterns, it's a seductive sound that has been described as "a single instrument played by many people". Gamelan music is well represented on disc.

Sirley Szersze

Teacher

What do Indonesian people like?

Indonesians are very friendly and love to make friends. They are sociable and curious to a degree that some Westerners find annoying. For a foreigner, sometimes it is hard to be left alone or find some place without Indonesian staring, saying Hello Mister or asking lots of questions.

Rejane Dubus

Teacher

What does Balungan mean?

The balungan (Javanese: skeleton, frame) is sometimes called the "core melody" or, "skeletal melodic outline," of a Javanese gamelan composition. This corresponds to the view that gamelan music is heterophonic: the balungan is then the melody which is being elaborated. In many pieces, they play the balungan.

Cassondra Cruset

Teacher

What is the meaning of Balinese gamelan?

Gamelan is a term that describes the traditional musical ensemble of Java and Bali.It originates from the Javanese word “gamel”, which means “to strike with a mallet”. Most of the instruments in the ensemble make sounds by striking the metal keys with a bamboo mallet.

Pureza Goossens

Reviewer

What is Rabab music?

Rubab, robab or rabab (Pashto: ?????, Persian: ?????‎, Hindi: ?????, Azerbaijani: Rübab, Turkish: Rübab, Tajik and Uzbek рубоб) is a lute-like musical instrument originating from central Afghanistan. The rubab is mainly used by various ethnic groups in Western Asia.

Youness Jeannin

Reviewer

Where is Java located?

Indonesia

Xeber Llanillo

Reviewer

What music do they listen to in Indonesia?

gamelan

Ase Talleda

Reviewer

How important is gamelan to the Indonesian way of life?

Indonesian dances are seen as important because it demonstrates the identity of the culture itself. Similarly, Gamelan is also very important. Not only does it help depict stories with music, but it also used for prayer and to entertain people.

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