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gamelanPercussion ensemble of 15 to 20 players using mainly tuned knobbed gongs and keyed metallophones found in Indonesia (especially Java and Bali) and Malaysia. Most modern gamelan are tuned to a five-note or seven-note system. Gamelan music is performed as an accompaniment for dance and theatre. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Karole Armitage created a new work, Gamelan Gardens, which also pushed the dancers' technical comfort zone. Music from the Morning of the World The Balinese Gamelan & Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant Nonesuch Explorer Series 79196-2 (1967) He persuasively contends that the New Order gave birth to several "superstar" puppeteers who were able, through access to financial and institutional resources, to dominate the field and exercise disproportionate influence over new trends in the genre's development, including the use of larger, more expensive multilaras gamelan sets, which offered wider musical possibilities. |
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