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World Music Indonesia
terms for Indonesia
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Undergraduate 4
06/27/2009

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wayang kulit
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Indonesian shadow puppet show, recounting never-ending battles of forces of light and dark from Hindu epics
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dalang
Definition
Indonesian virtuoso puppeteer, voices, oporator, singer, musical director
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gamelan
Definition
Indonesian orchestra of mainly bronze instruments to accompany wayang kulit
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Mahabharata
Definition
Indonesian Hindu epic story
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Ramayana
Definition
Indonesian, Hindu epic story
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balungan
Definition
core melody in Java
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pokok
Definition
core melody in Bali
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colotomic structure
Definition
punctuation by gongs in the Indonesian gamelan that articulate the metrical cycle
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pelog
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Indonesian tuning system of 7 notes per octave
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slendro
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Indonesian tuning system with 5 notes per octave
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buka
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In Java gamelan the short solo introduction before loud or soft playing stye
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patet
Definition
Indonesian version of "raga"- setting the mood in gamelan (6 different possibilities)
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irama
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relationship between the rhythmic densities of various instuents to the beat-in Indonesian music
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loud style gamelan
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in Java the drum takes the lead durring loud gamelan playing
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soft style gamelan
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in Java the rebab, suling, celempung take the melodic lead-in the gamelan, playing softly
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kebyar
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In Bali- style of gamelan where orchestra can start and stop on a dime
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gamelan gong kebyar
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In Bali- most popular type of gamelan with brilliant sounds
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topeng
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In Bali-mask dance commonly in repertoire of gamelan gong kebyar
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kecak
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In Bali-late night reinactment of Ramayana in circles around fire chanting, telling epic Hindu stories, becomming a human gamelan
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barong dance
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Hindu tradition- mythical dragan dance that protects villiager, accompanied by Kecak Orchestra
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dangdut
Definition
1960's popular Indonesian forms of music developed from American Pop, Latin American fim music from India
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angsel
Definition
movements of Indonesian dance that cue the drummer who then cue entire gamelan
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saron
Definition
gamelan instrument, one mallot, trough resonator
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gambang
Definition
gamelan wooden xylophone with 2 mallets
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gende'r
Definition
gamelan tube resonator xylophone
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bonang
Definition
gamelan, smaller knobbed gongset
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kenong
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gamelan-larger knobbed gongset-sit on strings
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rebab
Definition
gamelan spiked fiddle that played melody in Java
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suling
Definition
gamelan flutes
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celempung
Definition
gamelan-plucked zither (harp looking)
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kendang
Definition
gamelan drum
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kempul
Definition
gamelan- hanging gong
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gong ageng
Definition
biggest hanging gong that marks the end of rhythmic pattern of gamelan
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ceng-ceng
Definition
Balinese gamelan cymbols (that sit on the turtle)
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narrow eyes in wayang kulit
Definition
refined character
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large eyes in wayang kulit
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unrefined character
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elements of Indonesian music
Definition
orchestra of bronze instruments, compositions guided by core melody, Polyphonic texture, colotomic structure, paired families of tuning systems, stress at end of metrical cycle
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