gamelan

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The name of the ensemble performing this style of music
A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a siuling)
native Indonesian instrumental ensemble using string, wind and percussion instruments
Javanese or Balinese orchestra of metallic percussion instruments gemächlich: comfortable gemässig: moderate giocoso: playfully giusto: with precision glissando: continuous sliding from one note to another grave: extremely slow grazia: grace grazioso: gracefully Gregorian chant: unaccompanied and unharmonized church singing prevalent in the Middle Ages
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
Indigenous orchestra of Java and Bali and, more generally, of Indonesia and Malaysia. A gamelan usually consists largely of gongs, xylophones, and metallophones (rows of tuned metal bars struck with a mallet). Gamelan polyphony is complex and many-voiced. The melody is taken by the voice, flute, or rebab (a bowed stringed instrument); under it, most of the other instruments provide rhythmic paraphrases of the melody, producing a shimmering, variegated texture. The gamelan has influenced many Western composers, including Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass
Indonesian generic term for orchestra
An Indonesian bell and gong orchestra
a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
An Indonesian instrumental ensemble, featuring gongs, drums, wind, and string instruments
Indonesian percussion ensemble
Indonesian musical ensemble usually including tuned gongs, metalophones and drums
An Indonesian percussion ensemble
Musical ensemble of Java or Bali, made up of gongs, chimes, metallophones, and drums, among other instruments
All types of percussion, mainly gongs, metalophones and xylophones of all sizes Often mentioned as Gong
gamelan

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    gam·e·lan

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    Etymologie

    [ 'ga-m&-"lan ] (noun.) 1817. From Javanese gamel (“to strike or hammer”).
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