Lestarikan budaya tari dan seni gamelan bali

The Music of Bali,

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is an Indonesian island that shares in the gamelan and other Indonesian musical styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including

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, a form of singing that imitates the sound of

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s. In addition, the island is home to several unique kinds of gamelan, including the

gamelan jegog Jegog is a form of gamelan music indigenous to Bali, Indonesia, played on instruments made of bamboo. The tradition of jegog is centered in Jembrana, a region in Western Bali. In recent years jegog has started to become popular in other region ...

, gamelan gong gede,

gamelan gambang The ''gamelan gambang'' is a type of gamelan ensemble in Bali which uses four ''gambangs'', a wooden xylophone-like instrument (as opposed to most gamelan instruments, which are made of bronze), as well as two '' sarons''. It is considered an a ...

, gamelan selunding and gamelan semar pegulingan, the cremation music angklung and the processional music bebonangan. Modern popular styles include gamelan gong kebyar, dance music which developed during the Dutch occupation and 1950s era joged bumbung, another popular dance style. In Balinese music you can also hear metallophones, gongs and xylophones.

Characteristics

Gamelan Musicians, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

More than 50 people must be dancing during the music. Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the pre-

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ic period. During that time, Javanese tonal systems were imported to Bali. Balinese gamelan, a form of

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, is louder, swifter and more aggressive than Sundanese and Javanese music. Balinese gamelan also features more archaic instrumentation than modern Sundanese and Javanese gamelans. Balinese instruments include

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and bamboo xylophones. Gongs and a number of gong chimes, are used, such as the solo instrument trompong, and a variety of percussion instruments like

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s, bells,

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and the

anklung The (Sundanese: ) is a musical instrument from the Sundanese people in Indonesia made of a varying number of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves, similar t ...

(a bamboo

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). There are two sizes of bamboo

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s, both used in

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, and a

rebab The ''rebab'' ( ar, ربابة, ''rabāba'', variously spelled ''rebap'', ''rubob'', ''rebeb'', ''rababa'', ''rabeba'', ''robab'', ''rubab'', ''rebob'', etc) is the name of several related string instruments that independently spread via I ...

(two-stringed spike fiddle). Modern forms of Balinese gamelan include kebyar, an energetic style played by clubs, which generally compose their own music. An extensive study of gamelan gong kebyar is found in ''Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music'' (2000) by

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, and .

References

Encyclopedia.com
*''Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music'' (2000) by Michael Tenzer, and {{ISBN, 0-226-79283-8.

External links

by Michael Tenzer
Triguna: A Hindu-Balinese Philosophy for Gamelan Gong Gede Music
by Made Mantle Hood

Characteristics

See also

References

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