About Gamelan, Indonesia Typical Art

Gamelan is the music created by the blend of sound gong, kenong and other Javanese musical instruments. Soft music rhythm and harmony of living reflects the Javanese will soon greet and soothe the soul so heard. Then according om Simple, gamelan is a musical ensemble that usually highlight metallophone, xylophone, drums, and gongs. Gamelan orchestra mostly found in Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok in Indonesia in various sizes and shapes ensemble. In Bali and Lombok today, and in Java through the 18th century, the term gong is considered synonymous with gamelan.

Gamelan orchestra tuning and making is a complex process. Gamelan tuning using four ways, namely slendro, pelog, 'Degung' (special area of Sunda, or West Java), and 'madenda' (also known as the diatonic, the same as the original minor scale that is widely used in Europe.

In the show yesterday in London, the spectators who packed the British Museum in the BP Lecture Theatre made captivated. The art show featuring London Southbank Gamelan and Javanese dance brought the dancer Ni Made Pujawati.
Let's move on to the island resort or Bali. The Balinese artists entered Bali Arts Festival (PKB), one of whose objectives is to revive the ancient art and percussion that almost extinct species. One of them is Gambang which is a rare and sacred gamelan. Gambelan Gambang in several villages and the number could be counted on the fingers in Bali, the condition is quite alarming, because kesakralannya played only to accompany religious ceremonies. In central and southern Bali gamelan was played to accompany the ceremony Ngaben.While in East Bali (Karangasem and surrounding area) Gambang also played in relation Odalan ceremony at Pura-pura (persembahyang place for Hindus), which penabuhnya nearly all elderly men because there is no regeneration, said the artist Dewa Nurjana this percussion.Gamelan Gambang, barreled pelog (seven tones), formed by six bladed instrument. The most dominant is four bladed instrument called a bamboo xylophone consisting of (most small to large) pametit, panganter, panyelad, pamero and pangumbang.

Every instrument played by a drummer who uses a pair of two-pronged pelvis to play a blow-ubitan kotekan or Ubit, and occasionally a single blow or kaklenyongan. Another instrument is 2 tungguh saron Krawang consisting of large saron.He said, the youngsters now barely know many of these gambelan xylophone, because no one studied it so feared accelerate their extinction, therefore it is expected that through PKB teenage children begin to know and love later.

The foreign artists who once studied at the Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) of Bali, just a lot of studying art gambelan xylophone, and will be collaborated with art in his country. Students who studied xylophone gambelan there from America, Europe and Japan.







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