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21 Cards in this Set
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Bronze Gong ensemble |
- veitnamese gongs cymbals and drums - dance accompaniment - interlocking composite melody - festivals and religious rituals - gongs hanging to play like a xylophone - don't have a high sense of hierarchy like the society - conterintuitive - bronze means homegrown |
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Nhac Tai Tu |
- Chamber music from southern viet - modal system, very Indian influence -Rythmic cycles: 1 being the most important beat - improvised introductions - heterophony - phonic structure: simultaneous variation of a single melodic line - chinese instruments: dan co, dan tranh, dan kim |
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Piphat |
(thailand) - classical ensemble from thailand characterized by percussion and double ended reed "Pi" (similar to chinese sONA) - polyphonic stratification - the layer of simultaneous rhythmic density variants of a single melody - gets higher in pitch and faster - instruments: ranat thum - lower xyl ranat ek: higher xyl khon wong lek & kong wong lai - series of gone with separate series of pitches - used for funerals, state celebrations, rites of passage |
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lam Klawn |
- vocal repartee with Kaen Accompanimnet - poetry singing - rural farming area - about politics love and etiquette |
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Indonesia |
* Balis is the only place that remains hindue, people feel a sense of spirituality in their everyday lives - giving up food and fruit - very dedicated to the arts - dutch colonized indonesia |
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Yogyakarta Sukaratra |
- court cities of royalty - gamelans and wayang puppets |
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Gamelan |
- Indonesian metallophone orchestra and includes --> meal keyed instruments or various sizes --> spiked fiddle, bamboo flutes, chordophones --> barrel shaped drums --> normally a also a small male chorus and female soloist --> oral tradition |
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1. knobbed gongs |
-hanging gongs (gong Ageng): lowest pitch; largest gong - ketttle (horizontal gong): play basic melody in a rhythm that matches the gong cycle |
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keyboards |
- play upper players of the polyphonic structure - elaborate melody - other melodic instruments include membranophones which is the main controlled and provides rhythm |
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Form of Gamelan |
1. head (short solo introduction) 2. body--> "colotomic structure" - rhythmic gong cycle that is outline by hanging gongs; reference to celestial bodies and rhythm of the heavens - polyphonic stratification 3. Foot --> conclusion of peice |
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spiritual concepts in gamelan |
**importance of simultaneities - hindu&buddhist concepts of time as cyclic - cardinal directions -->towards volcano or towards sea. clock wise around the island or counter clock wise |
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purpose of gamelan |
- ritual observations and to accompany dance and drama |
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Java |
- can be played by anyone as a hobby or career - one generalized gamely used for different purpose (40 pieces, accompanying shadow theater) - music tends to be smooth and graceful, often sedate -gets fast or loud gradually ******graceful |
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Bali gamelan characteristics |
- doesn't have one generalized gamely... they have many different ones to accompany other specific theatres - usually very fast - players are playing at the top of their abilities - abrupt slower temper not gradual - difficult to play so it's their main job |
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Ramayana epic |
1. Rama and sita 2. Bharata 3. lakshmana 4. ravana 5. hanuman |
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Kecak |
- Rhythmic chanting - monkey chant - a group of monkeys is singing a beat chant and another group sings another beat of chanting - rhythmic interlocking - tells a story of episodes within ramadan epic |
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gamelan gong gede |
- court gamelan from pre colonial ball - used to mark life cycle ceremonies such as funerals and "taking the animal out of the person" - large gamelan over 40 musicians - sedate graceful like javanese but its balinese - replaced today by gamelan gong kebyar (melted these instruments down) |
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Gamelan Gong kebyar |
- modern style created by melting gong gee - most popular balinese gamelan - explosive changes in tempo and dynamics - common gamelan instrumentation, very entertaining, and also interlocking, and musically successful. - Kebyar means flower, opening up and exploding |
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Gamelan gender wayang |
- music to accompany wayang - quartet of four gender (looks like sewing machine) - canon of composed repertoire; orally transmitted from teacher to student - music is very technically difficult |
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Wayang kulit |
"skin" evening shadow theatre to tell stories about ramayana epic - the lyrics are the dialogue in old balinese and would be disrespect to translate to modern |
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Wayang lemah |
(daytime show theatre) - you can actually see the puppets and faaces and strings |
