Year 4
❤️ Cycle D ❤️
Genre: World Music Traditions
Style: Gamelan (Indonesia)
In Gamelan, the higher pitched instruments play the faster melodies and the lower pitched instruments often play slower melodies in cycles.
Gamelan music uses metallophones which belong to the tuned percussion family – bells. The technique involves hitting the instrument and using other hand to mute or silence.
Gamelan is based on a 5 note scale. Gamelan pitches are not the same as pitches in Western music but the 5 note scale is similar to our pentatonic scale. It is called the Slendro scale in Gamelan music.
Music: Manuk Anguci, a now-classic Balinese gamelan instrumental piece
Composer: I Nyoman Senen, from the village of Pindha, Saba, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia
Wayang is an Indonesian and Malay word for theatre. When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. “Bayang”, the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes “spirit.” Performances of shadow puppet theater are accompanied by gamelan in Java, and by “gender wayang” in Bali.
❤️Many musicians are inspired by Gamelan❤️
❤️Music Lessons❤️
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