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indonesia
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Undergraduate 1
04/24/2009

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wayang kulit
Definition
shadow puppet show -- all night epic of ne erending battles of light and dark
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dalang
Definition
virtuoso puppetier
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gamelan
Definition
orchestra of amily bronze instruments
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aspects of gamelan music
Definition
orchestras featuring bronze instruments, compositions guided by a core melody, polyphonic texture, colotomic structure, paired families of tuning systems, stress at the end of metical cycles
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pelog
Definition
a tuning system of seven pitches per octave with some adjacent intervals significantly larger than others
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slendro
Definition
tuning system of five pitches per octave with the adjacent intervals close to the same size
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aluz
Definition
refined style
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kasar
Definition
coarse style.
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buka
Definition
a bonang or a rebab seem to play off handedly but it is actually a modal character introduction
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balungan
Definition
the core melody played by the saron metallophones that is heard
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lagu
Definition
the central melody of the piece, though this is never explicitly heard it exists only in the minds of the musicians
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kembangan
Definition
melodies with more notes per beat than the balungan, literally "flowerig" of the music
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cengkok
Definition
patterns on which elaborating variations are made that ultimately coincide with the balungan
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patet
Definition
guiding structure of melody in pelog and slendro tuning systems, "mode" but includes hierachy of pitches and characteristic melodies.
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colotomic structure
Definition
pattern of regular punctuation of the composition by certain gong strokes. fixed and repeated
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gongan
Definition
large phrase defined by the duration between successive gong notes
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kenong
Definition
the second level of punctuation
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kempul
Definition
same frequency as kenong but in between those strokes
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wela
Definition
first kempul beat may be left silent, this is that
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ketuk
Definition
next highest level of punctuation
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kempyang
Definition
optional highest level of punctuation
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irama
Definition
relationships between the rhythmic densities of various instruments to the beat
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kepatihan
Definition
cipher notation
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pipilan
Definition
a new melody is created mostly by alternating between pairs of balungan tones
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kebyar
Definition
the ability of the entire orchestra to stop and start on a dime to play seemingly nonmetrical rhapsodic sections.
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gamelan gong kebyar
Definition
most popular type of gamelan,
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ugal
Definition
lead metallophone player
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selisir
Definition
fivetune subset of pelog
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pokok
Definition
core melod of kebyar
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gangsa
Definition
metallophones that play fast figuration
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ugal
Definition
low gangsa
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pemade
Definition
high gangsa
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kantilan
Definition
highest gangsa
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topeng
Definition
mask dance
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tabuh
Definition
short repeated melodies
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angsel
Definition
bold movement by dancers cuing the drummer who cues gamelan who then place cadence
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kecak
Definition
balies most famous forms of music. composed of shouts and chants by men.
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belanganjur
Definition
processional gamelans
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kotekan
Definition
type of figuration in the kebyar style
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barong
Definition
mythical dragon-like animal that is the holy protector of a village
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