Sunday, February 19, 2012

gamelan music


gamelan music
Gamelan is a set of musical instruments by way of ring it was hit or beaten, played together and that is an ensemble or simphony.

Scales used were the barrel slendro and slendro. Traditional music is most numerous in Central Java, East Java, DIYogyakarta, Sunda (West Java), Bali, Lombok, and Palembang (Srivijaya). Media (materials) gamelan made ​​of metal such as iron, brass, and bronze or wood.

One device (unit) consists of a complete gamelan instruments (musical instruments) as follows:
a. Drum group consisting of bem drums, percussion ciblon large and small, and ketipung.
b. Pencon group consisting of a musical instrument bonang barung, bonang successor, kethuk or kempyang, kenong, kenong pengkuk, kempul, and gong.
c. Blimbingan group consisting of barung gender, gender successors, and slenthem.
d. Balungan group consisting of saron, demung, and howl.
e. Complement the group consisting of a musical instrument zither (lute), zither, fiddle, xylophone made ​​of wood, bamboo flute, the developments there are now equipped with drum and trumpet.
f. Each instrument group has different functions from one another.

gamelan music

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