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Gamelan is surely not a foreign music. Its popularity has penetrated every continent, and has created new music of jazz-gamelan, gave birth to the institution as a learning space and the expression of gamelan music, to produce famous gamelan musicians. Gamelan music instrument can now be enjoyed in many parts of the world, but Yogyakarta is the most appropriate place to enjoy gamelan it since you can enjoy the original version.Gamelan is growing in Yogyakarta Gamelan Jawa, a different form of gamelan Balinese gamelan or Sundanese gamelan. Javanese gamelan has a softer tone and slow, in contrast to the smart Balinese gamelan and Sundanese gamelan highly dominated lilting voice and flute. The difference is reasonable, since Java has a view of life that is expressed in the rhythm of gamelan music.Javanese philosophy of life expressed in gamelan music is the harmony of physical and spiritual life, harmony in talking and acting so as not to create an explosive expression and to realize tolerance. Being real in his music is the pull string fiddle that is, a balanced blend of sound kenong, saron drums and xylophone and gong sounds on every cover of rhythm.There is no clarity about the history of the emergence of musicians. The development of gamelan music is expected since the emergence of drums, fiddle, pat into the mouth, the friction on the rope or thin bamboo to familiar musical instruments out of metal. Further development after named gamelan, music was used to accompany wayang performance, and dance. Later it became independent as the music itself and equipped with the voices of the singers.A set of gamelan consist of several instruments, including a set of similar musical instrument drum called drums, fiddle and zither, xylophone, gongs and bamboo flutes. The main components that make up the gamelan music instruments are bamboo, metal, and wood. Each tool has its own function in gamelan music show, for example, closing a gong played rhythm and the balance long after the music rhythm decorated by gending.DrumsDrum is an instrument of the leader. Pengendang is the conductor of gamelan music. There are 5 sizes drums of 20 cm - 45 cm.SaronPercussion instruments of bronze with wooden refuted. There are 3 kinds of Saron; Saron barung, Saron Peking, Saron demung.Bonang barungConsists of two rows of bronze tools played with 2 devices at.SlentemThis bronze slab placed over bamboo resonating.GenderAlmost the same as a slab of bronze slentem more.XylophoneWooden slab placed over wooden frames as well.GongEach set of slendro and pelog equipped with 3 gongs. Two large Gong (Gong Ageng) and one gong suwukan about 90 cm, made of bronze, gong signaling the end of the song whose lyrics long.KempulSmall gong, to signify the songs short rhythmic part. Each set consists of slendro and pelog 6 or 10 kempul.KenongSort of a small gong on a coaster, a complete set can be 10 kenong good set of slendro or slendro.KetugCalled kenong also small, indicating a pause between song lyrics.ClempungA string instrument, each slendro and pelog set clempung needs one.SiterEach set slendro and pelog require 1 siter.FluteEach set of slendro and pelog require 1 flute.FiddleStringed instrumentKeprak and KepyakRequired for dance performancesDrumJavanese gamelan music is pentatonic melodies. A complete gamelan game consists of two rounds, the slendro and slendro. Slendro has five tones per octave, ie 1 2 3 5 6 [C-D E + GA] with small interval difference. Pelog has 7 tones per octave, ie 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [C + D E-F # G # AB] with big interval difference. Gamelan music composition created with some rules, which consist of several rounds and pathet, limited by a gong and the melodies created in a unit consisting of 4 tones.You can see gamelan as a musical accompaniment alone or as a dance or performing arts such as wayang kulit and ketoprak. As a performance, gamelan music is usually combined with the sound of the Javanese singers (male singers and female singers called wiraswara called waranggana or sinden). Gamelan musical performance can be classic or contemporary gamelan. One form of contemporary gamelan music is jazz-gamelan as a combination of music with pentatonic and diatonic tone.One of the places in Yogyakarta where you can see performances of gamelan is Kraton. On Thursday at 10:00 to 12:00 pm gamelan as a musical performance itself. On Saturday at the same time held the gamelan music as accompaniment shadow puppets, while on Sunday at the same time held the gamelan music as accompaniment of traditional Javanese dance. To see the show, you can go to Ward Sri Maganti. Meanwhile, to see the old gamelan, you can go to another of the kingdom which lies further to the rear.
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