Lestarikan budaya tari dan seni gamelan bali

The Music of Bali,

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

is an Indonesian island that shares in the

gamelan Gamelan () ( jv, ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, su, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ban, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. T ...

and other Indonesian musical styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including kecak, 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,

gamelan gong gede Gamelan gong gede, meaning "gamelan with the large gongs", is a form of the ceremonial gamelan music of Bali, dating from the court society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, associated historically with public ceremonies and special occa ...

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 ''Gamelan selunding'' (also spelled ''selonding'') is a sacred ensemble of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia. The ''selunding'' ensemble is from Tenganan, a village in east Bali; the ensemble is rare. Selunding means "great" or "large". ''Selond ...

and

gamelan semar pegulingan Gamelan semar pegulingan is an old variety of the Balinese gamelan. Dating back from around the 17th century, the style is sweeter and more reserved than the more popular and progressive Gamelan Gong Kebyar. Semar pegulingan is derived from th ...

, the cremation music

angklung 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, simila ...

and the processional music bebonangan. Modern popular styles include gamelan gong kebyar,

dance music Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded danc ...

which developed during the Dutch occupation and 1950s era

joged bumbung Joged bumbung is a style of gamelan music from Bali, Indonesia on instruments made primarily out of bamboo. The ensemble gets its name from joged, a flirtatious dance often performed at festivals and parties. This style of Gamelan is especially ...

, 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 As it is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, the music of Indonesia ( id, Musik Indonesia) itself is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles. Every region have its own culture and art, and as a r ...

, especially that of the pre-

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ic period. During that time, Javanese tonal systems were imported to Bali. Balinese

, 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

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xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in ...

Gong A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...

s and a number of

gong chime A gong chime is a generic term for a set of small, high-pitched bossed pot gongs. The gongs are ordinarily placed in order of pitch, with the boss upward on cords held in a low wooden frame. The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter ar ...

s, are used, such as the solo instrument trompong, and a variety of

percussion instrument A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

s like

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bell A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an inter ...

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

and the anklung (a bamboo rattle). There are two sizes of bamboo

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s, both used in theatrical music, and a rebab (two-stringed

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). 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 Michael Tenzer, 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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