wayang kulit
Indonesian shadow puppet show, recounting never-ending battles of forces of light and dark from Hindu epics
dalang
Indonesian virtuoso puppeteer, voices, oporator, singer, musical director
gamelan
Indonesian orchestra of mainly bronze instruments to accompany wayang kulit
Mahabharata
Indonesian Hindu epic story
Ramayana
Indonesian, Hindu epic story
balungan
core melody in Java
pokok
core melody in Bali
colotomic structure
punctuation by gongs in the Indonesian gamelan that articulate the metrical cycle
pelog
Indonesian tuning system of 7 notes per octave
slendro
Indonesian tuning system with 5 notes per octave
buka
In Java gamelan the short solo introduction before loud or soft playing stye
patet
Indonesian version of “raga”- setting the mood in gamelan (6 different possibilities)
irama
relationship between the rhythmic densities of various instuents to the beat-in Indonesian music
loud style gamelan
in Java the drum takes the lead durring loud gamelan playing
soft style gamelan
in Java the rebab, suling, celempung take the melodic lead-in the gamelan, playing softly
kebyar
In Bali- style of gamelan where orchestra can start and stop on a dime
gamelan gong kebyar
In Bali- most popular type of gamelan with brilliant sounds
topeng
In Bali-mask dance commonly in repertoire of gamelan gong kebyar
kecak
In Bali-late night reinactment of Ramayana in circles around fire chanting, telling epic Hindu stories, becomming a human gamelan
barong dance
Hindu tradition- mythical dragan dance that protects villiager, accompanied by Kecak Orchestra
dangdut
1960’s popular Indonesian forms of music developed from American Pop, Latin American fim music from India
angsel
movements of Indonesian dance that cue the drummer who then cue entire gamelan
saron
gamelan instrument, one mallot, trough resonator
gambang
gamelan wooden xylophone with 2 mallets
gende’r
gamelan tube resonator xylophone
bonang
gamelan, smaller knobbed gongset
kenong
gamelan-larger knobbed gongset-sit on strings
rebab
gamelan spiked fiddle that played melody in Java
suling
gamelan flutes
celempung
gamelan-plucked zither (harp looking)
kendang
gamelan drum
kempul
gamelan- hanging gong
gong ageng
biggest hanging gong that marks the end of rhythmic pattern of gamelan
ceng-ceng
Balinese gamelan cymbols (that sit on the turtle)
narrow eyes in wayang kulit
refined character
large eyes in wayang kulit
unrefined character
elements of Indonesian music
orchestra of bronze instruments, compositions guided by core melody, Polyphonic texture, colotomic structure, paired families of tuning systems, stress at end of metrical cycle