Music 1170A/B Lecture : Music Lecture #8 Indonesian Music
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Indonesia i very multicultural, 200 languages spoken, decided to create a state language. Javanese gamelan an ensemble of instruments dominated by idiophones consisting of tuned knobbed tuning of instrument: no sense of standard tuning. May be tuned different in gongs and metal pee instruments different gamelans (all tuned to work together) Indonesian gongs have a knob (boss) gives the precise tuning of the gong. When it is played slower, the notes can run out. When played quickly, it is important to damp. Much higher pitch than the kempul and kenong. Flatter top, has a short decay to the sound. Set of resonators that look like tubes/cylinders placed vertically side by side and keys are laid on top. Mellow, soft tone: melody instruments, rebab. Chordophone, relative of the middle eastern rebab (tuning and construction vary) Played with the hands: kendhang family. Played with the hands, variety of strokes.