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shadow puppet show — all night epic of ne erending battles of light and dark |
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orchestra of amily bronze instruments |
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orchestras featuring bronze instruments, compositions guided by a core melody, polyphonic texture, colotomic structure, paired families of tuning systems, stress at the end of metical cycles |
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a tuning system of seven pitches per octave with some adjacent intervals significantly larger than others |
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tuning system of five pitches per octave with the adjacent intervals close to the same size |
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a bonang or a rebab seem to play off handedly but it is actually a modal character introduction |
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the core melody played by the saron metallophones that is heard |
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the central melody of the piece, though this is never explicitly heard it exists only in the minds of the musicians |
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melodies with more notes per beat than the balungan, literally “flowerig” of the music |
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patterns on which elaborating variations are made that ultimately coincide with the balungan |
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guiding structure of melody in pelog and slendro tuning systems, “mode” but includes hierachy of pitches and characteristic melodies. |
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pattern of regular punctuation of the composition by certain gong strokes. fixed and repeated |
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large phrase defined by the duration between successive gong notes |
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the second level of punctuation |
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same frequency as kenong but in between those strokes |
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first kempul beat may be left silent, this is that |
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next highest level of punctuation |
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optional highest level of punctuation |
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relationships between the rhythmic densities of various instruments to the beat |
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a new melody is created mostly by alternating between pairs of balungan tones |
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the ability of the entire orchestra to stop and start on a dime to play seemingly nonmetrical rhapsodic sections. |
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most popular type of gamelan, |
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metallophones that play fast figuration |
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bold movement by dancers cuing the drummer who cues gamelan who then place cadence |
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balies most famous forms of music. composed of shouts and chants by men. |
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type of figuration in the kebyar style |
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mythical dragon-like animal that is the holy protector of a village |
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