a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
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gamelan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Colotomic structures occur on even larger scales in most gamelan pieces as well.
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Suwardi and Sinta Wullur, and the combination of gamelan and western instruments.
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The soul of the gamelan is believed to reside in the large gong, or gong ageng.
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Once, in Java, we saw a gamelan gong being forged and bought one to take home.
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The gamelan uses a five-note scale as opposed to the seven-note western scale.
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Two types of gamelan ensembles will be showcased during Monday's performance.
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This became Babar Layar, the first serious gamelan group in the Netherlands.
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In a locked room just outside the palace wall are two gamelan musical instrument sets.
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Gamelan Raga Kusuma perform Thai, Balinese and Indian music with over 30 instruments.
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- A traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
- A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.
- Any of a variety of percussion instrument-dominated orchestras of Javan-Balinese origin.
- Instrumental music from Indonesia and Malaysia, rich in reverberating timbres of gongs, chimes, and other tuned metal percussion. ...
- Indonesian musical ensemble usually including tuned gongs, metalophones and drums.
- (or gamelang or gamelin) is the traditional orchestra type of Java and Bali. The instruments consist mostly of several sets of tuned metal instruments, different varieties of gongs, xylophones and other various percussive instruments. ...
- Indonesian percussive gong chime orchestra. For an extended description see: What is gamelan music? Listen to the sounds of the Pusaka Sunda, a gamelan degung ensemble from San Jose, California. You can find lots of gamelan CD's with sample tracks at Amazon.com. ...
- Important music of Indonesia. A style of orchestra that uses various types of Gongs, bowed and plucked strings, Flute or Oboe and Drums and is primarily used to accompany religious ceremonies. Two sets of instruments are tuned to two different scales.
- An indigenous Indonesian orchestra composed largely of pitched percussion instruments. These appear in the form of knobbed gongs, some of which are suspended and some laid out horizontally on rope supports and keyed metallophones, mounted on trough or tubular resonators.
